10000 Maniacs - Back O' The Moon Lyrics
Jenny
Jenny you don't know the nights I hide
Below a second story room
To whistle you down
Time is a miser
He's got a silver coin
Only lets it shine for hours
While you sleep it away
There's one rare and odd style of living
Part only known to the everybody Jenny
A comical where's the end parade
Of the sort people here would think unusual
Tonight upon the mock brine of a Luna Sea
Far off we sail on to Back O' The Moon
Jenny
Jenny you don't know the days I've tried
Telling backyard tales
So to maybe amuse
O your mood is never giddy
If you smile I'm delighted
But you'd rather pout
Such a lazy child
You dare fold your arms
Tisk and say that I lie
There's one rare and odd style of thinking
Part only known to the everybody Jenny
The small step and giant leap takers
Got the head start in the race toward it
Jenny
Tonight upon the mock brine of a Luna Sea
Far off we sail on to the Back O' The Moon
That was a sigh
But not meant to envy you
When your age was mine
Some things were sworn true
Morning would come
And calendar pages had
New printed seasons on
Their opposite sides
Jenny
Jenny you don't know the nights I hide
Below a second story room
To whistle you down
O the man who's let to divvy up
Time is a miser
He's got a silver coin
Lets it shine for hours
While you sleep it away
There's one rare and odd style of living
Part only known to the everybody Jenny
Out of tin ships jump the bubble head boys
To push their flags into powdered soils and cry
No second placers
No smart looking geese in bonnets
Dance with pigs in high button trousers
No milk pail for the farmer's daughter
No merry towns of sweet walled houses
Here I've found
Back O' the Moon
Not here
I've found
Back O' the Moon
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10000 Maniacs Back O' The Moon Comments
XXXXXXXX Where did the years go?
when i was younger i used to think the wishing chair was there worst album , now it might be my fav lol funny how you hear things different when you get older
There should be their. Different should be differently. OK I give up.
This was there best album, one of my very most favorites from that era. There were so many great bands that comforted and consoled my wise beyond it's years and world weary soul. I couldn't have made it without all of them.
Bought this when it came out , and this is the best track IMO. But I think "In my tribe" represented the band's zenith.
Puts me back in time, ah seeing them 3 times live twice at Mud Island and once in Foxboro remain highlights to this day!!!!!!
I saw the maniacs in 1989 at The Palace Theatre in Albany, NY
I I feel this song is a perfect embodiment of this bands defining sound ... love it ... appreciate it !
I have loved this song for almost 30 years!
Simply celestial!!!