Glory! Glory! Glory! Lyrics

They told you they would let him die at home

I'd have done it differently if I'd known

I'd have let you finish mowing the lawn

Before I told you that your father was gone

I looked ridiculous in your coat

You drank to drown the song down in your throat

We can't stay drunk in the yard forever

Pretending to know how to know each other

Spit it out for me

Spit it out and sing

Glory! Glory! Glory!

When the heart gets hungry it sets a trap

And baits it with a telephone whisper

And guarding every gilded lie

The crows that ornament the telephone line

And you got a lot to learn

'Bout what you do and don't deserve

I'm here to sing the long unsung song of all I have done wrong

Glory! Glory! Glory!

To all the warmth I've wasted

I'm sorry I tried to replace it

With sticky bodies, whiskey coffee

And outbound aeroplanes

I am ashamed

Of my arrogance, my petulance

Of being too proud to ask

Anyone for anything

I'm spittin' it out

I'm singin' it out

I am ashamed!