To The Boneyard

from Whole Damn Body by Los Campesinos!

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Respite in twilight, space in the cavity wall at grandparents’ house behind the apple tree
Where once you sang with your siblings now watching bodies bobbing down the stream leaving the town

I'm a picture of no flesh only bones as we're stripping off my skin to run it up the pole
and salute the breeze that ripples the sheath of the skeleton that's trembling on the ground beneath

Walked your entire country up the central reservation
Take me to the boneyard baby, take me to the boneyard baby
The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation
Take me to the boneyard baby, take me to the boneyard baby

We rifle through piles of bones
for something to chew on, for something to own

Through my teenage years at my mother's house, every evening 6 times there comes a phone call to ask:
"Where's my daughter gone?". She moved 6 years ago
Now receiver's cold, the phonecalls dry, there's no one home
And that is what we feared the most

And so we stitch our eyes and mouths closed lest we open them, breaking the seal that our bodies have formed
as a natural defence just to hold back the sorrow that friends made today will be deaths mourned tomorrow

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from Whole Damn Body, released May 7, 2021

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Los Campesinos! Cardiff, UK

Jism & Blues.

The UK's first and only emo band.

loscampesinos.com

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Jun 15

Warsaw

Brooklyn, NY
Jun 16

Paradise Rock Club presented by Citizens

Boston, MA
Jun 17

Union Transfer

Philadelphia, PA
Jun 18

Black Cat

Washington, DC
Jun 20

The Opera House

Toronto, ON
Jun 21

The Roxy at Mahall's

Lakewood, OH
Jun 22

Thalia Hall

Chicago, IL
Jun 24

The Crocodile - Old Location

Seattle, WA
Jun 25

Aladdin Theater

Portland, OR
Jun 27

Great American Music Hall

San Francisco, CA
Jun 28

The Belasco

Los Angeles (LA), CA

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