Iron & Wine

Lyrics to Me and Lazarus

Me and Lazarus, we shovel all the ashes out

Black bare linens blowing 'round

Back and forth and up and down

oh oh woah, guess I had nowhere else to go

Me and Lazarus kept bailing on the riverboat

Floating by the choir rose

Bobbing in the ebb and flow

oh oh woah, guess I had nowhere else to go

He's an emancipated punk and he can dance

But he's got a hole in the pocket of his pants

Must be a symptom of outstanding circumstances

Woah

Me and Lazarus, we fiddle with a baby spoon

Fever flowing through the room

Far too long and way too soon

oh oh woah, guess I had nowhere else to go

Me and Lazarus, we pick up papa's white boy blues

Hand-me downs and Sunday shoes

Never made the local news

oh oh woah, guess I had nowhere else to go

And I'm a liberated loser that can roll

But where my pocket was I'm peeking through a hole

A couple second-chances surely would console me

Woah