Big Thief: Beautiful World (NEW, UNRELEASED)

Описание: I love this track. It’s dark and deep, moved me to tears and touched on the cruelty happening all around. The sirens from outside the venue at the beginning were eerie. Encore.

Lyrics transcribed by MilesMalcom initially + edits

Eastbound going 65
The desert wind is blowing
My dog is sitting by my side
He don't care where we're going
Taking the south route this time
Back from California
Stopping in the old mine town
Bisbee, Arizona

We get in late at night
Climbed the stairs up to our room
The hotel is a tired old girl
Still smells of perfume
Of a hundred years ago
She was decked out, painted new
And they all wore hats and jackets
And said, “How do you do?”

It's a fucked up world
Why must everything be conquered?
But it, it's so beautiful
Let's blow a hole in the center of it

We wake up to the golden dawn
Black coffee and a bagel
I put some butter on it
And follow a Winnebago
Down a winding road for hours
We lose signal
There's no power out here
Just the power of a sphere
and the wild grass and my desert ass

I notice something in the sky
My dog and I pull over
It looks like the tip of the moon, but it's definitely closer
And it's not moving,
It's just hovering, still
up above the mountain
In that desert heat I feel a chill
Then come the border patrol
And I ask, “What is that thing?”
And he said, “That's a camera and it’s tethered to an invisible string.”

It's a fucked up world
why must everything be conquered
but it, it's so beautiful
let's build a fence in the center of it

Standing there feeling tripped out
And just wanting to cry
and that disconnected sharpness where everything is dry
I hear the ratchet of the call
Two wheels turning in the dirt
An old man on his bicycle, out of nowhere
soaking through his shirt
He gets down and comes over and he says
“I'm on a long journey
I'm riding my bike clear across this country and I'm 85 and my name is Bob. I'm gonna make the Guinness book.” I said, “It’s nice to meet you, Bob” and took his hand and shook

It's a beautiful world
Why must everything be conquered
But it, It's so beautiful
And I’m riding to the center of
This fucked up world
Why must everything be conquered
But it's so beautiful
And I’m riding to the center of it