Listen to God Bless Ohio (Explicit) song with lyrics from Sun Kil Moon

God Bless Ohio (Explicit)

Sun Kil Moon17 Feb 2017

God Bless Ohio (Explicit) Lyrics

God Bless Ohio - Sun Kil Moon

Written by:Mark Kozelek

 

There you were a little kid in the yard

 

I was a friend and a brother

 

There's an old picture of us playing cards

And at night we threw corn at houses

 

It was meant for feeding hogs

 

Later in life I was playing jimmy fallon

 

You were getting chased by police through cornfields

And mauled by canine dogs

 

And when I go back and visit

 

It's like a ghost town

 

We travel around and around and around

Past the perpetually vacant sexton's house

Sexton's house

 

Past the abandoned molly stark hospital

 

And I think about

 

The old mansfield prison where shawshank redemption was filmed

 

And I think about

 

The alcoholic's anonymous guys

I knew in my teens who had been in and out

 

Past the old steel mill

 

I think about my grandpa

 

And that horrible nursing home

And the ugly tattoo on his sagging dying arm

 

I said f**k that dad

Whatever that is I'm never ever ever going to get one

 

My dad is one of two left of his nine siblings

 

And when he's gone

I'm gonna lay down in my bed and I'm never gonna wanna get out again

I'm never gonna get out again

I'm gonna be strong when I can

Cause if my little brother goes before me

 

Don't want to swim out into the sea and never come back

 

God bless ohio

 

God bless every man

 

Woman and child

 

God bless every bag of bones six feet under the snow

 

God bless o

 

God bless o

 

God bless ohio

 

Just saw the news on my television in New York

 

Pike county ohio massacre

If it ain't families getting shot then it's one thing or the other

 

Guy letting his pet lions loose in the street

And putting a gun in his mouth

 

Young girls held as slaves in a basement by a guy

Until a neighbor ratted him out

 

Craigslist killers luring people by offering them work on a farm

 

Killed and buried their bodies out by belden village mall

Stole their cars and credit cards

 

God bless ohio

 

God bless every man

 

Woman and child

 

God bless every bag of bones six feet under the snow

 

God bless o

 

God bless o

 

God bless ohio

 

Oh as sadness lingers

 

And the rain clouds above

 

Well sadness lingers and the lightning storms

 

Rain floods

 

Oh as sadness lingers

 

And the graffiti underneath the bridge

 

Well sadness lingers and the old dilapidated barns

And the doors coming off their hinges

 

And in the empty downtown parking lots

 

And the lonely alleyways

 

And the foreclosed homes that once had kiddie pools in the yards

And cars parked in the driveway

 

Oh but the beautiful things from ohio

My mother my mother my mother my mother

 

And my walks along the path of the tuscarawas street

Of the tuscarawas street

 

The beautiful children of my sister

 

And the blue herons gliding across the pond

Blue herons gliding across the pond

The black squirrels nibbling on acorns

The fireflies flickering on the summer lawn

On the summer lawn

Domino's pizza brings me back to when I was younger

When I was younger when I was younger

When I was younger when I was younger

 

These kids I hear outside my window

I was one of them I was one of them

I was one of them I was one of them

 

Now I'm the old man in the chair

Deep in thought in the living room

 

I'm that old man now and I'm grateful that I got this far

 

And that I've become him

 

And when I go back we drive around

We drive around we drive around we drive around we drive around

We drive around

 

The old supermarket we used to go hide behind

 

Is closed down

Is closed down

I was raised on groceries my mom brought home from their spring summer fall winter

Spring summer fall winter

 

Velveeta cheese and wonder bread and chocolate milk

And salisbury steak TV dinners

 

She squirreled away a few bucks along the way because she loved you and me

She loved you and me

 

So she could make sure we had a few gifts each year under the

Christmas tree

 

At the risk of pissing my dad off very very very badly

 

She socked that money away from those grocery store trips without him knowing

 

For you and me

 

What saved me from the dark clouds hanging over ohio

 

What's chasing the dream baby

 

Who would have known

 

That the pursuit of love and music would have even bought me a home

 

Or'd have take me to tokyo to tel aviv

To athens to reykjaví k and rome

 

There is healing in writing poems

 

There is healing in psychotherapy

 

There is healing in taking walks along the beach

But never underestimate the healing of music baby

 

Some songs are funny and some are sad

 

Some are short some are long

 

There is nothing as healing and powerful

 

As the power of song

 

As the power of song

 

As the power of song

 

As the power of song

 

As the power of song

 

I was walking along the hudson looking at

The New York skyline on my break from the studio in hoboken

 

Every pay phone I saw

I checked to see which ones worked and which ones were broken

 

And in my head there was a melody going

 

Oh

 

God bless o

 

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God bless ohio

 

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