Name: You can't come home again
Duration: P00H04M06S
Description: Track from our EP "Marvel at Elephants"

You can't come home again

by Marvel at Elephants

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Track from our EP "Marvel at Elephants"

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You can’t come home again

you can leave the certainty of taking everything for real
you can grub in all the archives to find another name to steal
so no one ever say the word, and you must never hear
if you are not existing you can neither disappear

you can unmask every jokerman from wherever they might come
for no one could corrupt you even not your own loved son
you can trade off every dime of happiness for every cent of truth
you can speak with an old man’s voice since your early days of youth

but you can’t
you can’t
you can’t
come home again

you can say “mother, I’m a stranger I’m a child of someone else
I don’t belong to no one you can stop ringing them bells”
right into your mother’s face when she was still in pain
before they even cut the cord and found that you were sane

you can start a revolution you can hypnotise the crowd
and you‘ll be long gone when they come to bring the crown
you bring myrrh up to the mountains, gold down to the plains
you bring frankincense to everyone, make‘em feel like they were saints
you can invent America again

but you can’t
you can’t
you can’t
come home again

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released November 29, 2020
Lyrics: Johan Poßin
Music: Marvel at Elephants

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Marvel at Elephants Lüneburg, Germany

Marvel at Elephants is the Lüneburg, Germany based band consisting of Johan Poßin (Vocals & Guitar), Olaf Niebuhr (Bass & Vocals), Martin Dohrmann (Guitar) and Lars Plogschties (Drums).

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