About a Bruise - Iron & Wine

A weed believes the garden

Sunday clothes don’t fool me

The sky is full of our prayer, prayer

When you were making moonlight

The mall cops in Mobile

The night fell from their eyes, from their eyes

This is borrowed stone

I’d help you let your hair down

Point to birds, then you’d say, «Bang, bang»

The sun left every evening

Good grass was dying

You drew your dawn on the world, on the world

Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise

Or walking into water after dark

Your papa saw me coming

Blood knows when it’s worth it

All you said, you said like a song, a song

Jesus left a best friend

Mine says forget her

His field is waiting for wind, for the wind

Mobile had your moonlight

But the line cook had candy

You let him blow your candle a bit

(Hoo hoo hoo, hahaha)

Ring a bell that’s broken

That sound is loud inside us

Flowing farther away, far away

Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise

Or walking into water after dark

Love can last a lifetime

This is Alabama

And a wheel is forgiving the road, the road

Now you’re making music

For beautiful people by the sea

Who don’t need a song, need a song

Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise

This is Alabama