Albatross - Foals

You got an albatross around your neck, around your neck

You got a hundred broken lightbulbs above your head

They said that you had it coming but I wouldn’t bet

'Cause you got a slowly ticking time bomb,

And then you see red.

Sunblind, sunblind

You got an albatross around your neck, around your neck

You got a pile of broken wishbones under your bed

And you got a hungry green-eyed monster that you keep fed

And it keeps on coming over, it wants you dead

Sunblind, sunblind

Oh, you burnt the lungs that your ancestors created

You sat by the banks of the river and you waited

Till time rolled back and the water had abated

You drank, you share but you still could not be sated

Quicksands of the mind and the sinkholes you may find

When you look through the twisting of the vines,

The twisting of the vines.

Time comes round again, it’s etching at your bones

Chill wind comes round, it’s blowing through your home

Quicksands of the mind and the sinkholes you may find

When you look through the twisting of the vines.

You burnt the lungs that your ancestors created

You sat by the banks of the river and you waited

Till time rolled back and the water had abated

You drank, you share but you still could not be sated

You said you’re scared of the clocks that keep ticking over

I’ll find a way through a life that we’re living over

Again and again through a life that we’re living over, again and again

A life that we’re living over,

Again and again, again and again and again

Again and again, again and again and again