Venetian Blind Man (Song)

(Album: Camp Here & There Soundtrack: Campfire Songs Edition - 2022)

Squints out of his window, he don't want to see
Venetian blind man, no one else to be
Talleyrand forces come down from high ground
Looks up at high horses, "Well, we're safe for now," and he says,
"Oh woah woah. It's only an omen.
Oh woah woah. Stay in the moment."

Private walls close in and cup their ears now
Trust us we've got ways to make them talk
I've read the writing
How do these things lock?

String on his finger, a tourniquet ring
Venetian blind man, memory loaded on springs
Forward's behind him in the future that sneaks up
Keepers become finders
What's worth weeping over's worth taking
Oh woah woah, sky is falling
Oh woah woah, catch or it all ends

Lord knows I've said awful things 'round this house
They echo through the frame and six feet down
What killed the dead end?
Burn it to the ground.

Oh woah woah, lose out or give out
Oh woah woah, give up or live down
Oh woah woah, nobody chose it
Oh woah woah, nobody knows it
Better than I do

Feet, don't fail me now the ways my eyes did
Mind, don't snap and heart, don't break, not now
No, not like this
Any but this breakdown

Venetian blind man
Venetian blind man
Venetian blind man
Venetian blind man