TV On The Radio - Family Tree

Album: Dear Science

Tunde Adebimpe (vocals/loops), David Andrew Sitek (guitars/keyboards/loops), Kyp Malone (vocals/guitars/loops), Jaleel Bunton (drums/vocals/loops) and Gerard Smith (bass/keyboards)


Under my love
Wake up to your window
The day calls in billows
Its echoing moonlight on to the blue nightmare of your heart
In cosy red rainbow
Its shaking off halos
And the memory of our sacred so and sos

Oh take my hand sweet
Complete your release and bury your feet
And married we'll be
Alone in receiving ours is a feeling not that they would see
They dont know that we could be
That way your cradle escaped the sea
...
Were laying in the shadow of your family tree
Your haunted heart and me
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep it young

Ill be your mind
Is it safe to say that weve waited patiently
Call me on time
And well go over to nanas place disgracefully
Fall into line
There's the garden grave and a place they've saved for you
I'll fall by your side
...
Were laying in the shadow of your family tree
Your haunted heart and me
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep it young

And now well gather in the shadow of your family tree
In haunted harmony
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the valley of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep us young

(Spin Magazine's 40 Best Albums of 2006, http://www.spin.com/articles/40-best-albums-2006?page=0,3)
(RS's 50 Best Albums of 2008, http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/24958695/albums_of_the_year)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Indie Rock
• Dear Science
• Return to Cookie Mountain

[dbain21Films]

cant stop listening to this

[AmadeusExcello]

@dbain21Films Glad to see you enjoy their music.

[Faetonthas]

awesome music

[TheCourtt0]

oh god this is the most beautiful thing i have ever heard

[loonyleper]

they can do no wrong!!! man, they're AWESOME!!!

[EarthMotherLover19]

@MeTaLLiCaT8282 , with every passing comes a new beginning. I believe thats when we die our soul is finally free from this flesh prison, our vessel is to go back to the earth which it originated from and our energy is free to go wherever it wishes!!!!

[AlanRikkin]

ok, stop, catch your breath and restart

[jforessb]

i love this....came upon it unexpectedly...was it always here and i could have been listening to it for months???

in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree, there's a hundred hearts so free...........hope after all?

[kexim08]

love this

[MeTaLLiCaT8282]

@EarthMotherLover19 I'm sorry for your loss. Mine just passed too, this past Sunday. =(

[jasoncporter]

The second verse is what gets me. From "oh, take my hand sweet" and into the chorus is truly majestic.

[rwayne3000]

Truly beautiful...