[ti:One Foot Before The Other]
[ar:Frank Turner]
[al:England Keep My Bones]
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[00:00.60]Peggy Sang the Blues - Frank Turner
[00:08.34]On the very day I die
[00:09.90]The very last of my desires
[00:11.29]Is that you take my broken body
[00:13.54]And commit it to the fire
[00:15.47]And then when the fire is finished
[00:17.75]Scrape the ashes in a tin
[00:19.31]Take them down to London's drinking reservoirs
[00:22.58]And throw them in
[00:23.77]And then specks infinitesimal of my mortal remains
[00:27.02]Will slide down 7 million throats and into 7 million veins
[00:30.95]And I will creep through their capillaries to the marrow of their bones
[00:34.84]And they will wake to bright new mornings and then wordlessly they'll know
[00:38.67]That I remain
[00:42.73]I am remembered
[00:46.91]I remain
[00:50.46]I am remembered
[00:54.53]So these 7 million innocents
[00:56.27]They will have me in their blood
[00:58.21]And when they die they'll burn their bodies
[01:00.14]Or be buried in the mud
[01:02.01]And I will spread through streams and rivers like a virus through a host
[01:05.84]From the hamlets to the cities from the rivers to the coast
[01:09.79]And from there into the channel across the great Atlantic Ocean
[01:13.68]And ever onwards to the new world
[01:15.93]Through the waters gentle motions
[01:17.36]Until parts of me are part of every land mass every sea
[01:21.36]In the rain up on your crops and in the very air you breath
[01:25.37]I remain
[01:29.24]I am remembered
[01:33.36]I remain
[01:36.98]I am remembered
[01:41.16]I remain
[01:42.14]And all the things I love will be washed away in the rain
[01:48.79]I remain
[02:06.14]I'm not convinced of the existence of these things that don't exist
[02:09.92]Yeah by Jewish boys with big ideas and scratches on their wrist
[02:13.92]By a loving or a vengeful God
[02:15.85]Or one who condescends
[02:17.16]Who'll wash his hands down in the mire among the misery of men
[02:21.41]Or by ever turning circles hanging timeless in the sky
[02:25.21]Like a dream catcher distracting from the fact you're gonna die
[02:29.09]But I place one foot before the other
[02:31.44]Confident because
[02:32.93]I know that everything we are right now is everything that was
[02:36.68]That Watt Tyler Woody Guthrie Dostoevsky and Davy Jones
[02:40.83]Are all dissolved into the ether and have crept into my bones
[02:44.63]And all the cells in all the lines upon the backs of both my hands
[02:48.70]Were once carved into the details of two feet upon the sand
[02:52.10]We remain
[02:56.34]We are remembered
[03:00.46]We remain
[03:04.08]We are remembered
[03:07.72]We remain
[03:09.37]And all the things we love
[03:11.68]Will be washed away in the rain
[03:15.80]We remain