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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #88
Peak in subgenre #23
Author
Rick Shelton
Rights
Shelton/Patton 2009
Uploaded
July 09, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:07
Story behind the song
Based off a vision/day dream I had several weeks ago. The "story" is set in a post-apocalyptic world. I pictured it as I was just waking up and exploring this new land after everything had died, in a some-what biblical, somewhat nuclear holocaust. It's dusk... the sun is setting, and as I open my eyes and begin to look around, this is SORT OF what I see...
Lyrics
OLLY OXEN FREE
v/intro
Drawing in a stale first breath
I survey this new land
Dissipated of all it's life
The world no longer stands
I feel like a child playing hide-and-seek
Alone in the desert sands (calling out)
c1
Come out, come out, olly oxen free
Nobody is here but me
v
The sun smolders like a cigarette burn
In the liquid mercury sky
Twilight crashes in the clouds spin
Like waterfalls on high
The stories untold were driven to the cold
Cold ground to starve and die, (Alone, I'm singing)
c1
Come out, come out, olly oxen free
Come out, come out, wherever you may be
Nobody is here but me
v
(The) Stars are screaming like bounty hunters
Out on the prowl
The nighttime sky is dancing a strip tease
For the one man crowd,
Taunting a burlesque candy-coat moon
behind her lingerie clouds, (She calls to me)
c1
Come out, come out, olly oxen free
Come out, come out, wherever you may be
Nobody is here but me
b
I climb inside a glass cocoon
Seeking refuge from Ol' Luna's eye. (she's a)
Night-watch-woman if you will
But she doesn't seem to have the time.
Cock roaches and dead flies are my
Only company tonight
c2
Nobody is here but me
v
The sky turns to hate and my feet arouse scrapes
on the rusted blades of grass
The trees turn to beasts gnashing their teeth
Bark oozing poisonous sap
Tombstones ahead and bones of the dead
All offer me their laps (a-rattling)
c
Come out, come out, olly oxen free
Come out, come out, wherever you may be
Nobody is here but me
v
The storm overhead is led by a dark ship
And it's dark captain
The ghostly gondolier beckons here
Won't you come with me my friend
From a hollow face he states that his place is to
Show me where it begins to end
b
I climb aboard and ask what made him this way
And what he's doing here
He turned his ears inside
There was no one around to hear
He turned his eyes in because
He couldn't stand to face the fears (He Says,)
Nobody was here but me
b
He's patrolled this hellish world
For each of times uncounted sands
Searching for another soul to
Emancipate him from this land
He clutches death decay and misery
In his unrelenting hands (he cies)
Nobody was here but me
Nobody was here but me
v
So I grab the wheel and I try to steel
My spine as we take flight
Sailing out over dusty death
The epitomy of fright
All I know before it's over we're in for
One hellacious night of screaming out
c
Come out, come out, olly oxen free
Come out, come out, wherever you may be
Come out, come out, olly oxen free
And nobody is here...
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