Quiet Americans Lyrics - Jet Plane And Oxbow - Shearwater

I can't help it 

If all the world is ending 

If all the life is gone 

Still, you're calling out this name 

Where are the Americans? 

Our dimmed conscience 

Our hands and eyes that wander 

Stumbling down the road 

Or collapsing on parade 

Or lying alone in the eastern light 

Sleeping in the morning hours 

And the only sound 

From the lantern-covered hills 

The only light 

From a day yet to begin 

The only signs 

Of the guns in silhouette 

Are only sound 

Are only light 

Only, only! 

Our dull silence 

Our disconnected lives 

Pull out the lightning dust 

At the mention of his name 

And whither the Americans? 

Shake the memories off 

Hide the evidence under 

Piss on the world below 

Like a dog that knows his name 

Where are the Americans? 

All calling on their own tonight 

Filling the remaining hours 

And the only sounds 

Are the bells up on the hill 

The only lights 

Are the lanterns in the wind 

The only sign 

Skims the rust off of the rails 

The only sound 

The only light 

Only, only! 

The only sound 

Is the rushing of the wind 

The only light 

Is a day yet to begin 

The only signs 

Of the lives in silhouette 

"The only life" 

Is not the only life 

Only, only!