You Hung The Moon Lyrics - National Ransom - Elvis Costello

The homecoming fanfare is echoing still 

Now tapping on tables 

And sensing a chill 

Poor families expecting loved one's return 

Only summon some charlatan spectre 

Oh, when will they learn? 

You hung the moon 

From a gallows in the sky 

Choked out the light 

From his blue lunar eye 

The shore is a parchment 

The sea has no tide 

Since he was taken from my side 

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The lines of the fallen are viewed through a glass 

But you cannot touch them at all 

Or hear their footfall just as they go past 

The drunken ground is where they are bound 

You hung the moon 

From a gallows in the sky 

Put out the light in his blue lunar eye 

The shore is a parchment 

The sea has no tide 

Since he was taken from my side 

So slap out his terrors 

And sneer at his tears 

We deal with deserters like this 

From the breech to the barrel, the bead we will level 

Break earth with a shovel, quick march on the double 

Lower him shallow like tallow down in the abyss 

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You hung the moon 

From a gallows in the sky 

Choked out the light in his blue lunar eye 

The shore is a parchment 

The sea has no tide 

Since he was taken from my side