Last 3 Human Words Lyrics - Trials & Errors - Magnolia Electric Co

i know how you feel 

like your soul could use the rest 

but you're not my girl anymore 

you're a ghost in the west 

and tonight you're gonna make it 

down the black road alone 

don't cry now 

cause you're so much better off 

you're none of what you were 

but you're everything you lost 

and whatever you got back after that 

is worth whatever it cost 

you can climb to the top of the wall 

you can look down on it all 

you can never tell what you saw 

remember when you got here 

how the bending willows hung 

how your eyes stung from the mercury 

and you found on your tongue 

all the words to all the songs you were sure 

only the night could have sung 

and all the way down gospel street 

a dead bird was hauling an ivory box 

back from redemption 

you just buried the last chance you got 

and all the way down locust street 

a black ox was hauling a white willow box 

back from oblivion 

he just dug up the last chance you got 

he said the last three human words 

were the same as the first three words 

don't you ever wonder what they were?