Battery Kinzie Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I woke up one morning
All my fingers rotting
I woke up a dying man
Without a chance
I came to your window
Threw a stone and waited
At the door, a stranger stood
The stranger's voice said nothing good
I turned to walk the frozen ground
Alone, all the way home
[Chorus]
Wide-eyed walker
Do not wander
Do not wander
Through the dawn
[Verse 2]
Both my eyes are fading
No light in the evening
Planted like a seed in sand
And drowned in rain
Watch you for an hour
He kept you beneath him
He kept you on lock and key
He paid the wage you sent to me
And wastes the day so idlly
Alone, all the way home
I woke up one morning
All my fingers rotting
I woke up a dying man
Without a chance
I came to your window
Threw a stone and waited
At the door, a stranger stood
The stranger's voice said nothing good
I turned to walk the frozen ground
Alone, all the way home
[Chorus]
Wide-eyed walker
Do not wander
Do not wander
Through the dawn
[Verse 2]
Both my eyes are fading
No light in the evening
Planted like a seed in sand
And drowned in rain
Watch you for an hour
He kept you beneath him
He kept you on lock and key
He paid the wage you sent to me
And wastes the day so idlly
Alone, all the way home
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Genius Annotation
Battery Kinzie is a concrete fort that was built to protect Puget Sound.
There is a reference to the US Marines hymn on the album’s opener, “Montezuma to Tripoli”, Battery Kinzie. Most batteries are located on hills, but this one is at the water level.
“Montezuma to Tripoli” is a reference to the coastal war, a metaphor for what is later to be discussed in the album, especially the ocean mentioned in tracks (Sim Sala Bim, The Shrine/An Argument, Grown Ocean…)
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- 1.Montezuma
- 3.Sim Sala Bim
- 4.Battery Kinzie
- 7.The Cascades
- 8.Lorelai
- 12.Grown Ocean
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