So High So Low So Wide So Long

So High so Low so Wide so Long - These United States

So long sad

But at least it's sure said the old man

Well i believe it's the sweetest two words

I have ever heard

And i've been around

Since God made dirt

And said i could dig it or man i could buy it

But there's no way possible that i can deny it

Indisputable science

I ran alone from the hungry lions

And now i'm so high i can't get over it

With my heart so low i can't get under it

And the sky so wide i'll never get around it

And so i'm yelling into nothing just to hear

The echo of the sound of it

I need to get some new ground into my feet

I spent all the precious metals that i dug from

The streets

Oh little song all thats left of me

My gold is gone but i've got the receipts

And i'm gonna read them from the mountaintop

Talk tales of busted bandits

Cobweb corner shops

And each one patrols a pot of gold

Tooth broke

Like sisyphus at the hillside tollboth

I feel for jonah

I too am a lonely butcher

Trying to carve a lil piece out of

This whale's great big future and still

I'm just as high but i can't get over it

With my heart so low i can't get under it

And the sky so wide i'll never get around it

And so yelling into the nothing

Just to hear the echo of the sound of the rock

So heavy

You can barely even move it

And this life's so thick that

You can hardly swim on through it

And flames so fast

You gotta go on sitting in it

Just as long as you know

You must get on with it

I feel for jonah

I too am a lonely butcher