Triple Spiral Lyrics - The People's Key - Bright Eyes

I loved a triple spiral 

My maiden mother crow 

I folded my devotion to an origami rose 

So out her ten feet window, she said to look below 

Could I see the town was burning? 

Could I see the broken prison? 

Could I see that it was time for me to go? 

They looted the museum, 

Took all that they could hold 

A motorcade of flatbed trucks 

Made off with with quite a haul 

And that's when I heard someone shout 

"In with new, out with the old!" 

A dusty box of letters 

A rusty suit of armor 

A casket made of 14 carat gold 

That's the problem 

No sense of time 

She changes like an hourglass 

They're playing on the side 

I loved you triple spiral 

Father, son, and ghost 

But you left me in my darkest hour 

When I needed you, when I needed you 

Now that the dream is over, I want it to be known 

I never saw you coming 

From my little human prism 

How sad it is to know I'm in control 

That's the problem, an empty sky 

I fill it up with everything that's missing from my life 

Where'd you come from, you faded sign? 

Spinning through the centuries 

Expanding all the time 

Three worlds at once that blend together 

Three times I cried for us 

But I felt better then 

I loved you triple spiral 

My maiden mother crow 

You found me in this fallowed state 

My mind was off and stow 

I heard your strange commotion 

And wished I could go home 

To live a little longer 

A full Indian summer 

Long enough to carve you into stone