Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth Lyrics - Parquet Courts

I'd seen the bloodlands of Antietam 

The shotgun shack in Tupelo 

But a brick circumference left hollow by Sherman 

Crumbling before me how it moaned 

His shape swallows my recollection 

That phantom silhouette implied 

Strange fruit rotting from an airborne and hotter than hell 

Is this the king's last man I've spied? 

I stood there beside my companion 

Scratching a rumor he had heard 

Do you have a gun? 

What? He said, yeah, you mean this one? 

Straight down the barrel was his word 

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And I smelt the fumes he inhaled swiftly 

Each word was hinged upon his choke 

Like kudzu creeping up a state tree discretely 

Forever bending as it broke 

And I heard the jangling keys of Graceland 

Ring from his teeth stained brown from coke 

Drunk and stumbling like a man of distinction 

They clamored shaking as he spoke 

Of droves of pilgrims at his doorway 

Of Reagan, Carter, Clinton, Gore 

Fortunes offered them, refused routinely 

This ain't no damn auction house he swore 

Black male standing around 6 foot something 

Ebbs through the waves of small town blight 

A minute coldly from southern affection 

Collides secretly into night 

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Forgive those who trespass against us 

Began as the dead intruders plea 

Into the very muzzle I'd once peered into 

He gives the last words he will speak 

But that broken glass supports forced entry 

Reminds his lawyer through the phone 

What southern judge do you know, comforting gently 

Who jails white men who defend their home 

No souls were present for the moment 

His bombed out brick walls finally fell 

Lying face down in the throes of atonement 

Checked out of the Heartbreak Hotel 

He was the uncast shadow of a southern myth