BRIGHT EYES PERFORM COYOTE SONG LIVE FOR SOUND STRIKE
Bright Eyes have a new ballad called “Coyote Song”, which they performed live for the Sound Strike website. The Sound Strike is a coalition of artists who are boycotting Arizona after it passed the SB 1070 bill against suspected illegal immigrants. The love song comes on what may be Bright Eyes last album released before the band retires and is about a couple who can’t be together because they are separated by a border. Check out the lyrics below and while you wait for the official video to go viral, you can check out Connor and his band performing the song live:
Verse:
Loving you is easy
I could do it in my sleep
I dream of you so often it’s like
You never leave
But you’re down below the border
With a nightmare in between
So I’m sending a Coyote
To bring you back to me
Well there’s a fancy hotel waiting
In South San Gabriel
Where the movie madames sunbathe the playboy’s
Parisail
I know you think I’m crazy
But most people, they can’t tell
And I’ll meet you there tomorrow
If I can have you to myself
Chorus:
And so the time
I tried to find a way to occupy
a way since you been away
It’s hard, the plans we starred
of calling cards
I can’t see your poker face
While your voice is sounding so brave
Verse:
Our Lady Guadalupe
In plaster on the wall
Joseph Smith saw Jesus in
America
Well I don’t know much about it
It doesn’t matter much at all
If you keep your head down lady
As you travel through the dark
And if I should seem distracted
By the color of the sky
As a copper wire sunset plays
A lullaby
It’s just to know they’ve stolen
Another day from you and I
It gets me feeling lowdown
When the moon is full and high
Chorus:
Been fake
We’re out to take
A place that’s safe
That you might wait a day
A lonesome broken dawn
That finally comes
Just as I was losing faith
You keep every promise you make
Verse:
Loving you is easy
I could do it in my sleep
I dream of you so often it’s like
You never leave
But you’re gone below the border
With a nightmare in between
So I’m sending a Coyote
To bring you back to me
Yes I’m sending a Coyote
To bring you back to me
