Lyrics
[Verse]
Once I got out to my front yard
Saw the tree I loved fell apart
Now it’s my time to put to test my heart
Raising flowers in front of a tombstone
I call home
[Verse]
Come, dear ghost
Up here, bring it to me
Mountains of sadness
So I can cherish my glee
Get up from this soil
Rise up from this coffin
Shaped like a baby crib
[Chorus]
Don’t you drag me down, seventy-six
Oh my dear mountain of bricks
I was born into you, but I gotta go
In the end we’ve all gotta grow
[Verse]
You chained me down
So I could find a key
You dragged me ‘round
So I could learn to be free
Once freedom rained over me
I knew who I wanted to be
For I am you and you are me
[Verse]
Isn't this view lovely?
Trapped inside black bars and concrete
This beauty I have to see
So many years gone by trapped here
Now one last song where loneliness is turned into art
In this bedroom where I always bled out my heart
[Chorus]
Don’t you drag me down, seventy-six
Oh my dear mountain of bricks
I was born into you, but I gotta go
In the end we’ve all gotta grow
[Chorus]
Don’t you drag me down, seventy-six
Oh my dear mountain of bricks
I was born into you, but I gotta go
In the end we’ve all gotta grow
[Post-chorus]
Even if we’re oceans apart
We’ll be together, you and I
History shall always do its part
‘cause you can’t run away
From what made you who you are
[Bridge]
Your past is yours and it shall always be
Home is a place where place sickness and age lie
It’s up to you from here
Home is a place where sadness and death lie
The future is your only hope to be free
Home is a place where loneliness and love lie
[Outro]
Run as far as you can, even if your body trips
Move on from seventy-six