[ti:rock me now] [ar:Metric] [al:Grow Up & Blow Away] [00:00.11]rock me now [00:03.87]Grow Up & Blow Away [00:07.78]Metric [00:11.80] [00:47.07]The town where she was born, [00:48.37]like town where I was born was built by white settlers seeking gold and other treasures. [00:55.05]Like me she feels uncomfortable in the clothing of her ancestors. [01:02.52]"It's not easy" she would say, [01:03.91]dipping her fingers into the ashtray, [01:06.07]"It's not easy to erase your blood." [01:09.16]Rock me now (come on, sing with me) [01:16.07]in the arms of cobwebs [01:24.08]Roll me out [01:31.99]in the arms of cobwebs [01:41.09]That night she found a man to treasure and together they'd planted flowers of warning, fearing frost. [01:47.58]Late on shallow evenings while their enemies slept, [01:53.46]they hammered the soil asking for answers in green. [01:56.48]His value declined when he offered his name. [02:00.84]Why did he offer it? [02:04.45]His value declined when he offered his name. (Ah ah ah ah ah) [02:36.77] [02:52.72]When she was 7 years old she saw a man get shot but, [02:56.53]no one came along for a long time because it happened in a remote parking lot in Las Vegas [03:01.37]And she was waiting for her mom to come back from working the blackjack table at the Circus Circus casino. [03:08.40]And that night her mom said that the two of them and the now dead guy were the only 3 people who ever really lived in Las Vegas. [03:16.17]Everybody else just arrived, ate their complimentary shrimp cocktail, and left. [03:23.33]Rock me now in the arms of cobwebs (It's a one room city, yeah) [03:38.53]Roll me out in the arms of cobwebs (So can you roll with me?) [03:54.73]His value declined when he offered his name. [04:01.75]It's a one room city the wall to wall to wall to wall goes to street to street to street [04:11.31]end.