We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Gary, Who Drove the Truck (It's a Protest Song)

from Eternal Return - Digital Release by Royal Holland

/

lyrics

We’ve lost our ways and don’t know where to find ‘em
Built towers so tall that we’ll never climb them
Sent them up to god but he don’t want ‘em
So, we decided we would take that duty from him
Want everything but don’t know where we’ll put it
But, we won’t go to sleep until we’ve got it
And, when we do sleep we cannot even have dreams
‘Cause if we did we’d end up being happy
And, that’s what scares the happiness out of us
That one day we might not have to buy one more thing
To build a massive doomed and burning mountain
And, at its peak a paper mausoleum

We focus on the rancor of the factions
And, forget that we all once were little babies
And, that one day we learned to hate another person
And, to be afraid of every passing moment
And, to forget to feel the warm sun on our faces
Or, to hold the hand of someone that we care for
And, we start to think that this is what is normal
Can’t hear the whispers of what has come before us

And, the humming in our bones is deathly quiet
And the earth she turns and becomes truly angry
And she scorns with all the harshness of her glory
And, she tells that there have been some before us
And, that there will be others once we are forsaken
And she begs us to stop tearing down our brothers
And destroying ourselves by destroying others
And a small child has but one word on her tongue
And she’s singing it in hopes that we can still hear

So let’s follow her into the cold morning
As the ache of time caresses our demeanor
If we’d only open up our eyes in the darkness
We’d remember that we once lit the fire

credits

from Eternal Return - Digital Release, released May 3, 2020

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Royal Holland image

Royal Holland Dayton, Ohio

Dreamy Synth Folk Rock songs about loss and love.

contact / help

Contact Royal Holland

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Royal Holland, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring interviews with LA music scene pillar Kamasi Washington, and new London-based duo Mrcy.

listen now