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James Vincent McMorrow
Early in the Morning
Down the Burning Ropes

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James Vincent McMorrow

Down the Burning Ropes

Release date: 26th February 2010

From Early in the MorningTrack 85:00

Singer/Songwriter Music Rock Adult Alternative

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About This Track

"Down the Burning Ropes" is a track by James Vincent McMorrow, from the album Early in the Morning, released 26th February 2010. The track is 5:00 long. It's filed under Singer/Songwriter. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about James Vincent McMorrow.

About the Artist

James Vincent McMorrow

James Vincent McMorrow

Lyrics

Down the Burning Ropes

When the hills let go
Slowly fade into the water like some ancient lover
On a ship filled with ghosts
It's something to behold

When the paper thin girls
With twisting little braids in their hair,
They take off their coats and throw
Pebbles and stones from the side of the boat,
Crying out
The stones they float, the stones they float
Oh my God, the stones they float, the stones they float

Down the burning ropes
Past the places where the steal beams meet concrete skies
You make your bed under the moonlight
I think it's time we said goodbye

'Cause nothing moves in the warm air
And words that once would cut like a knife,
They just hang in the cloud and you're
Pushed by the lord,
But you're pulled by the crowds and
You're overboard, you're overboard
Oh my God, she's overboard

My love she's overboard
She's overboard
My love she's over board

Not a shell unbroken
In the valley where my heartache and the timbers lay
It's not the time to be hanging around here
You know what some might say

That people get too reckless
That even with the simplest of crimes
They leave, blood behind,
As I clean the knife for the very last time
I think she knows, I think she knows
Oh my God, I think she knows

I think she knows

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Track details

From Early in the Morning

5:002010

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Album

Early in the Morning

James Vincent McMorrow

26th February 2010

Track number

8

Release year

2010

1If I Had a Boat
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2Hear the Noise That Moves So Soft and Low
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3Sparrow and the Wolf
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4

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