Roscoe (Live at the iTunes Festival)

This song is by a band we really like called Midlake

And it's called Roscoe

Stonecutters made them from stones

Chosen specially for you and I

Who will live inside

The mountaineers gathered tinder piled high

In which to take along

Driving many miles, knowing they'd get here

When they got here, all exhausted

On the roof leaks, they got started

And now when the rain comes

We can be thankful

Ooh, ah, oh-whoa

When the mountaineers

Saw that everything fit

They were glad, so they took off

Thought we were due

For a change or two

Around this place

When they get back

They're all mixed up

Oh, with no one to stay with

The village used to be all one really needs

Now it's filled with hundreds and hundreds of chemicals

That mostly surround

You wish to flee, but it's not like you

So listen to me, listen to me

Oh, and when, when the morning comes, we will step outside

We will not find another man in sight

We like the newness, the newness of all

That has grown in our garden soaking for so long

Whenever I was a child

I wondered what if my name had changed

Into something more productive like Roscoe

Been born in 1891, waiting on my aunt

I thought we were due

For a change or two

Around this place

Oh, wow, oh, I thought we were due

For a change or two

Around this place

When they get back

They're all mixed up

With no one to stay with