Top Bunk
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Performed: December 6th, 2013 Written & performed by: Frances Quinlan |
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Background
The track was performed during the Weathervane Concert in 2013, alongside early concepts for many Painted Shut songs. At the time, it was the only track to have been given a name.
It is likely the track was considered for painted shut, considering the time period and the inclusion of "painted shut" in the lyrics, but was excluded from the album for unknown reasons, with "painted shut" being included in the album version of "Sister Cities" instead.
Lyrics
Signal will go through the snow many years from now
Through the painted shut window
And through the painted shut window
Your phone will ring, and it still won't be quite
The apology I know you wanted
Sorry
I think about you often, but
Every family has to start right from rock bottom up
And there's been too much time
And I've forgotten the beginning
But one time, I woke up hot in the sunlight
And you were gone, you were gone
I mean, you were back on the bottom bunk
In the bathroom of the trailer
We tried to flush Elvis down, Elvis down the toilet
Your mother broke the door in
Screaming house, stand up against
A big burned-up skeleton
I try to picture you as a child, picturing
And think, how alike
Our clownish teeth and open-mouthed days
I think about you often, but
Every family has to start right from, right from rock bottom up
And there has been too much time
And I've forgotten the beginning
But one time, I woke up hot in the sunlight
And you were gone, you were gone
I mean, you were back on the bottom bunk
I think about you all the time
All the time, but, all the time, but