GRAVEYARD SHIFT Songtext
von Cole Jackson

You looked away
You walked away


Bottle of Amaretto?
Right next to a haunted ghetto?
Whether I go for the gold or green, I still want the meadow?
That′s the picture they be painting, hating a poisoned echo
Too many hold the brush, make the art deco
Start the memo
Colonials capitalize from an enterprise they designed
Yet I abide because my hide?
Nah, that's how they own ya
Everything changed when I saw that pic of Nanny Nona
I recall they took me out of class in the steeple
Just to say you′re different and draw an eagle
That's all we'll ever fucking teach ya
Single sided conversation
Not a single sign of truth in all this reconciliation
Talk and talk and talk
But where′s the action to back your complacence?
Done the damage how you gonna manage our expectations?
Ask the teacher, why can′t we take the steps that's required?
"Son you′re preaching to the choir"

I saw a graveyard the other day
I saw a graveyard the other day
I saw a graveyard the other day
You looked away
I found a graveyard the other day (the other day)
I found a graveyard the other day (the other day)
I found a graveyard the other day
You walked away


Bottles of Jim Beam
Can be much darker than they seem
As faded memories replay in traumatized dreams
Unravel like regalia, loose at the seams
Gotta travel and cleanse myself within the river's stream
I wish my Ma could follow me there, but she′s been lost
'Cause that bottle can surely have a much higher cost
It can bite you like Celtic frost
Leave ya passed out in the moss
Hoping it′ll help ya cope but just adds to the loss
She grew up having to be a rowdy fighter
'Cause her complexion was a bit lighter
Sad when tribes are divided at war with each other
But then she truly lost it when she lost her Mother
My Grandmother
Another unsolved mystery tucked in the cupboard
Much more missing, so listen as another grave's uncovered
So what′s your truth spoken amongst all this reconciliation?
Behind the orange shirt you wear on a paid day′s vacation
Huh?

I saw a graveyard the other day
I saw a graveyard the other day
I saw a graveyard the other day
You looked away
I found a graveyard the other day (the other day)
I found a graveyard the other day (the other day)
I found a graveyard the other day
You walked away

You went and walked away
You went and walked away
You went and walked away