Lyrics At Home with the Animals.lrc Ryan Adams
[id: pshxqorp]
[ar: Ryan Adams]
[al: Romeo & Juliet]
[ti: At Home with the Animals]
[length: 03:55]
[00:00.29]While you were reading the black bible in the sun
[00:05.23]I was half drunk out the window of a moving city bus
[00:10.42]Wilder than the devil, like a tiger in the brush
[00:14.88]Louder than an atom bomb that only you could hush
[00:19.02]Spinning like the Earth and Moon, but never really touched
[00:23.73]Alone, the ways I wanted to be loved
[00:28.94]You were not enough
[00:33.94]While your head was bowed and hands praying to God
[00:38.40]I was swinging from the chandeliers like some endangered animal
[00:43.30]Somewhere in New Orleans on the run
[00:47.80]Like I just won the lottery, with God-knows-what inside of me
[00:52.16]Hair a mess and shoelaces undone
[00:56.56]Of all the ways I wanted you
[01:00.14]You were not the one
[01:05.35]While they were teaching you how Moses split the sea
[01:09.74]I was in an airplane bathroom doing speedballs off the sink
[01:14.73]High as any angel moving at the speed of sound
[01:19.17]Someplace over Germany, moving through the clouds
[01:23.58]Winking back at stewardesses, supplying me with ale
[01:27.40]Big-hooped golden earrings staying at the same hotel
[01:31.94]Of all the ways I wanted you to hold me
[01:36.31]I could not be held
[01:41.58]While you were waiting for the doctor in the chair
[01:45.96]I was stoned riding the cyclone at the Onslow County Fair
[01:50.67]The stars above us sparkled like they didn’t pay the bill
[01:55.07]Smokes behind the haunted house, chugging stolen beers
[01:59.44]Cotton candy kisses underneath the ferris wheel
[02:03.60]Of all the ways you wanted me to feel
[02:08.03]I could never heal
[02:13.21]While you were waiting in the depot for the train
[02:17.93]I was asleep on stolen cargo in the back of someone’s plane
[02:22.63]Halfway back from Florida from Cuba in the rain
[02:26.55]Low enough to feel the water from the spraying waves
[02:30.94]Underneath the radar hauling crates of pure cocaine
[02:35.11]Hung over and laughing high above The Everglades
[02:38.97]Of all the ways I wanted to be tamed
[02:43.68]I was just insane
[02:48.66]While you were waiting in the lobby for your man
[02:53.29]I was working at the circus as a garbage man
[02:57.77]Remembering that winter you were in a long black coat
[03:01.96]I’m at home with the animals, knife at my own throat
[03:06.18]You hear the bells of freedom, but the chains all just say “nope”
[03:10.04]If I was the Titanic, you were pink clouds and blue smoke
[03:14.12]Rising over Hemingway and in an old man’s fishing boat
[03:18.32]Of all the things I wanted you to be
[03:22.79]Of all the things I wish that you were now
[03:26.97]You were not around
[03:32.64]
[03:44.14]You were not around
[03:47.26]Year of Release: 2022