Fiery Furnaces - Paw Paw Tree Bob Powell Wall of Flesh

Fiery Furnaces - Paw Paw Tree Bob Powell Wall of Flesh

At last when the choice was neither nor,
Bottom of the bay we're set ashore.
Went into town beg what we lack:
200 stripes on horseback.
Wearing my yellow coat,
Rope tied around my throat:
Great green wax candle unlit;
Silence! And then the sentence spit.
I'm sitting up in my paw paw tree
Wait they make mango mush outta me.
Pick axe I can't stay
Silver mines all day.
Cut down the weedwood
And think that I just could.
I'm sitting up in my paw paw tree
Wait they make mango mush outta me.
Tied down with brown twine
Up past the tree line
Up by I hope where
The King of Spain don't care.
I'm sitting up in my paw paw tree
Wait they make mango mush outta me.

Category:

Music

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• Fiery
• Furnaces
• Paw
• Tree
• Bob
• Powell
• Wall
• of
• Flesh

[sleepyhashknife]

this sounds really awesome

[jonanjello]

You should listen to the whole Fiery Furnaces album, Blueberry Boat. It's tops.

[Bryanissmiling]

@jonanjello

Mneh, I wouldn't say so.

[jonanjello]

Why's that?

[droctagon17]

@Talloweed It's fictional.

[Talloweed]

I really wish I knew the precise meaning behind this song, because it's absolutely haunting. From what I gather, the narrator is telling a story about how he/she ventured into a Spanish colony, and was quickly arrested by soldiers. Then, he/she was sent to work in a mine as punishment, but apparently escaped, only to be recaptured and hanged to death. Is there any historical context beyond that? Any idea why the narrator was arrested in the first place?

[PanavisionLove]

I like all there songs, but i hate all there lyrics.... there lyrics suck in my OPINION! they should just not sing ever.

[isolationeitheror]

i love this song!

[sebytheman]

@sleepyhashknife because people have closed minds and refuse to aquire a taste for the unconventional.

[AmideLanval]

ben, ils sont assez bien connus parmi les fans du rock indépendante.

[Talloweed]

The Fiery Furnaces are one of the few 2000's era bands that I really enjoy.

[sleepyhashknife]

how come these guys are not huge yet