You Hung The Moon-Elvis Costello

[00:01.42]The homecoming fanfare is echoing still [00:04.60] [00:06.28]Now tapping on tables and sensing a chill [00:09.27] [00:11.07]Poor families expecting loved one's return [00:15.28] [00:17.53]Only summon some charlatan spectre [00:20.10] [00:21.87]Oh when will they learn [00:25.90] [00:29.45]You hung the moon [00:32.20] [00:34.29]From a gallows in the sky [00:37.62] [00:39.58]Choked out the light [00:42.44] [00:44.49]In his blue lunar eye [00:47.95] [00:49.90]The shore is a parchment [00:53.63] [00:54.84]The sea has no tide [00:58.04] [01:00.13]Since he was taken from my side [01:08.79] [01:10.91]The lines of the fallen are viewed through a glass [01:13.91] [01:15.18]You cannot touch them at all [01:17.40] [01:19.32]Or hear their footfall just as they go past [01:22.77] [01:24.22]The drunken ground is where they are bound [01:28.17] [01:32.13]You hung the moon [01:35.16] [01:36.99]From a gallows in the sky [01:40.44] [01:42.49]Choked out the light [01:45.30] [01:47.29]In his blue lunar eye [01:50.27] [01:52.26]The shore is a parchment [01:55.90] [01:57.45]The sea has no tide [02:00.51] [02:02.94]Since he was taken from my side [02:11.64] [02:14.32]So slap out his terrors [02:16.26]And sneer at his tears [02:17.66] [02:18.88]We deal with deserters like this [02:21.53] [02:23.27]From the breech to the barrel the bead we will level [02:26.84] [02:27.63]Break earth with a shovel quick march on the double [02:31.19] [02:32.10]Lower him shallow like tallow down in the abyss [02:37.77] [02:43.11]You hung the moon [02:46.17] [02:48.17]From a gallows in the sky [02:51.84] [02:55.10]Choked out the light [02:56.81] [02:58.85]In his blue lunar eye [03:02.38] [03:04.42]The shore is a parchment [03:08.70] [03:09.92]The sea has no tide [03:13.18] [03:15.51]Since he was taken from my side [03:24.03] [03:26.66]Since he was taken from my side [03:36.56] [03:39.07]The homecoming fanfare is echoing still [03:44.53]