More songs by Jonah Kagen
Description
Composer, All Instruments, Associated Performer, Producer, Recording Engineer, Lyricist: Jonah Kagen
Mixing Engineer: Ryan Hewitt
Mastering Engineer: Joe LaPorta
Lyrics and translation
Original
Slow up child, you're gonna get burned. Lay down the way you're gone in a hurry.
Rainwater in the wine. You're gonna live a long, long life.
I woke up one morning restless on a bed of gasoline.
Finally dawned on me the time that I spent shackled in these sheets.
Said life inside these walls ain't doing nothing good for me.
So I burned down that old brick house, and I threw away the key. Headed west out to
Montana, said I'm never coming home.
Closed my eyes and gripped the wheel and let my chest say where to go.
But I met God in Greenville County, upside down glass on the road. He said, "Boy, you never warmed up.
You got used to being cold. "
Slow up child, you're gonna get burned. Lay down the way you're gone in a hurry.
Rainwater in the wine. You're gonna live a long, long life.
Slow up boy, shut your mouth. Stop preaching about shit you don't know about. You got nothing but time.
You're gonna live a long, long life.
Met a girl out in the desert and she told me I was ill.
She said, "I will make you better," and she handed me a pill. She was pretty, so I thought if this won't help me, nothing will. Soon enough,
I woke up floating high above the desert hills.
Then all at once the desert sounded evil and turned black.
I watched what little life was left catch fire and turn to ash.
And I saw my mother standing there, an empty can of gas. She said, "What the fuck you doing, boy?
You get your ass right -back. " -Slow up child, you're gonna get burned.
-Lay down the way you're gone in a hurry. -Rainwater in the wine.
You're gonna live a long, long life. Slow up boy, shut your mouth.
Stop preaching about shit you don't know about. You got nothing but time.
You're gonna live a long, long life.
Slow up child, you're gonna get burned. Lay down the way you're gone in a hurry.
Rainwater in the wine. You're gonna live a long, long life.
Slow up boy, shut your mouth. Stop preaching about shit you don't know about. You got nothing but time.
You're gonna live a long, long life.