Now Only (Live) - Mount Eerie: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Now Only (Live)

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Now Only (Live) was released on September 28, 2018 by P.W. Elverum & Sun as a part of the album After (Live)

Song Details

AlbumAfter (Live)

Release DateSeptember 28, 2018

LabelP.W. Elverum & Sun

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Mount Eerie

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Phil Elverum

Songwriter

Lyrics

I remember looking around the hospital waiting room

Full of people all absorbed in their own personal catastrophes

All reading books like Being Mortal

All with that look in their eye

And still I remember feeling like no

No one can understand

No, my devastation is unique

But people get cancer and die

People get hit by trucks and die

People just living their lives get erased for no reason

With the rest of us just watching from the side

And some people have to survive

And find a way to feel lucky to still be alive

To sleep through the night

I wrote down all the details of how my house fell apart

How the person I love got killed by a bad disease out of nowhere

And for no reason and me living in the

Blast zone with our daughter and etcetera

I made these songs and then the next thing I knew I

Was standing in the dirt under the desert sky at night

Outside Phoenix at a music festival that had paid to fly me in

To sing these death songs to a bunch of young people on drugs

Standing in the dust next to an idling bus with Skrillex

Inside and the sound of subwoofers in the distance

And I had stayed up till three the night before talking to Weyes Blood

And Father John Misty about songwriting in the backstage bungalows

Eating fruit, jumping on the bed like lost children

Exploding across the earth in a self-indulgent all-

Consuming wreck of ideas that blot out the stars

To be still alive then felt so absurd

'Cause people get cancer and die

People get hit by trucks and die

People just living their lives get erased for no reason

With the rest of us averting our eyes

When I was leaning on Skrillex's tour bus waiting for the hotel

Shuttle in the middle of the night in

The desert, I barely knew who I was

I looked up and saw Orion wielding a club and a shield

And there you were again, majestic, dead wife

As my grief becomes calcified, frozen in

Stories and in these songs I keep singing

Numbing it down

The unsingable real memory of you

And the feral eruptions of sobbing

These waves hit less frequently

They thin and then they are gone

You are gone and then your echo is gone

And then the crying is gone

And what is left but this merchandise?

This is what my life feels like now

Like I got abruptly dropped off on the side of

The road in the middle of a long horrible ride

In a hot van that was too full of confident chattering dudes

And the sound of their tires receding

Taking in the night air

I say, "Now only"

Written by: Phil Elverum

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