LyricMeaning

One Foot Before the Other
Frank Turner

On the very day I die
The very last of my desires
Is that you take my broken body
And commit it to the fire

And then when the fire is finished
Scrape the ashes in a tin
Take them down to London's drinking reservoirs
And throw them in

And then specks infinitesimal of my mortal remains
Will slide down seven million throats and into seven million veins
And I will creep through their capillaries to the marrow of their bones
And they will wake to bright new mornings and then wordlessly they'll know

That I remain
I am remembered
I remain
I am remembered

So these seven million innocents
They will have me in their blood
And when they die they'll burn their bodies
Or be buried in the mud
And I will spread through streams and rivers like a virus through a host
From the hamlets to the cities from the rivers to the coast
And from there into the channel across the great Atlantic Ocean
And ever onwards to the new world
Through the waters gentle motions
Until parts of me are part of every land mass every sea
In the rain, up on your crops and in the very air you breath

I remain
I am remembered
I remain
I am remembered
I remain

And all the things I love will be washed away in the rain
I remain

I'm not convinced of the existence of these things that don't exist
Yeah by Jewish boys with big ideas and scratches on their wrists
By a loving or a vengeful God
Or one who condescends
Who'll wash his hands down in the mire among the misery of men
Or by ever turning circles hanging timeless in the sky
Like a dream catcher distracting from the fact you're gonna die

But I place one foot before the other
Confident because
I know that everything we are right now is everything that was
That Watt Tyler, Woody Guthrie, Dostoevsky and Davy Jones
Are all dissolved into the ether and have crept into my bones
And all the cells in all the lines upon the backs of both my hands
Were once carved into the details of two feet upon the sand

We remain
We are remembered
We remain
We are remembered
We remain

And all the things we love
Will be washed away in the rain
We remain


  Purchase "One Foot Before the Other"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "One Foot Before the Other" Video   Play Spotify "One Foot Before the Other" Song   View Wikipedia "One Foot Before the Other" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Frank Turner Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "One Foot Before the Other"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Frank Turner

  Balthazar, Impresario   Barbara Allen   Eulogy   Fix Me (Black Flag cover)   Heartless Bastard Motherfucker   I Really Don't Care What You Did On Your Gap Year   Love Ire & Song   Mr Richards   Nights Become Days   Pass It Along   Redemption   Rivers   Rock & Roll Romance   Song For Eva Mae   St. Christopher Is Coming Home   The Outdoor Type (The Lemonheads cover)   To Absent Friends   Wanderlust   Wessex Boy

Related Songs

  Mountains - Approaching Nirvana  One Foot in Front of the Other...  Carry On - Lisa Stansfield  Things Change - Civilian  One Foot in Front of the Other - Emilie Autumn  Nothing At All - Madi Diaz  Put one foot in front of the other - Bone Symphony  Nearer To Life - Michal  Soldier of Fortune - John Paul Young  Soldier of Fortune - The Manhattan Transfer  SOLDIER OF FORTUNE - Manhattan Transfer  One Foot In Front Of The Other - George Strait  One Foot - Building 429  When The Other Foot Drops, Uncle...  Stay Out Here - The Knife  One Foot in Heaven - Dean Martin  One Foot On The Floor - M I L C  Majority - Ryans Hope  Fingers & Toes - Milkshake  I Dont Know - Replacements  I DON'T KNOW - The Replacements  I Don't Know - Replacements  One Foot (Single) - Fun.  Walker ( Sharon Gilchrist ) - Uncle Earl  Foot In Your Mouth - Hoobastank  Calcutta - Hopewell  Just As Well - Abbott Hayes  We Live - Rehab  The Zucchini Song - Tim Curry  One Foot - Fun  One Foot - Fun.  Foot Patrol - Ironik  Holding The Moth - Underworld  Marking Stone Blues - Kelly Joe Phelps  Sugarfoot Rag - The Browns  Sugarfoot Rag - The Browns  Whole Life - Kevin Durant  Race With the Devil - Roxx Gang  I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down - Buddy Holly  I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down - Buddy Holly  Foot One - Reef  One Foot - 21 Savage  One Foot - The Mynabirds  Sugarfoot Rag - Porter Wagoner  Avalanche - Matthew Good  Avalanche - Matthew Good Band  Sugar Foot Rag (1950) - Red Foley  Katy Perry By The Grace Of God is a heartrending p...  The Fall - A Plea For Purging  There Ya Go - Alan Jackson  I Don't Look Back - Gary Allan  I Don't Look Back - Gary Allan  Go Get Your Gun - The Dear Hunter  Go With Me - Deitrick Haddon  One Foot In Front of the Other...  One Foot In Front Of The Other - Bright Eyes  One Foot In Front of the Other - Buckethead  One Foot in Front of the Other - Chris Jamison  Just Desserts - Marina And The Diamonds  Thaw - Laurel Halo  Other Side of Down - David Archuleta  Foot Stomping - The Flares  Sugarfoot Rag - Kenny Price  Sugar Foot Rag - Jerry Reed  Left Foot, Right Foot - Hilltop Hoods  Left Foot Right Foot - Hilltop Hoods  Wilbury Twist - Traveling Wilburys  One Foot Out the Door - Mike Posner  The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight...  Wilbury Twist - George Harrison  A Breath Or Two - Jimmy Needham  I Don't Look Back - Allan Gary  I Don't Depend On You - Human League  I Don't Depend On You - Human League  The Very Best of Me - George Jones  By The Grace Of God - Katy Perry  The Other Side Of Down - David Archuleta  Sugarfoot Rag - Ella Fitzgerald  Mutilate - Front 242  Overcome - Charlotte Martin  I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas...  One Step Free - Bess Rogers  6 Foot 7 - Tinie Tempah  Like A River Dreams Of Rain - Joe Diffie  One Foot In, One Foot Out - Ruth  One Foot In One Foot Out - Ruth  I Breathe In, I Breathe Out - David Kersh  I Breath In, I Breath Out - Chris Cagle  I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down (Overdubbed Version)...  Sugarfoot Rag - Asleep At The Wheel  Emily's Changed - The Gun Club  One Night - The Summer Set  A Night Like This - Tom Baxter  Footprints In The Sand - Bill Anderson  I'm The Light - Blue Cheer  Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight - Loretta Lynn  C'mon Kid - Dave Hause  The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight...  She's as Beautiful as a Foot - Blue Oyster Cult  Defect 12: Valsar - Tom Zé  Revolver - The Donnas  The Other One - Twilight Sleep  The Other One - Freetoed  The Other One - Wake the Dead  The Other One - Lisa Germano  The Other One - Grateful Dead  Long Way to the Light - Mike Scott  HxC 2-Step - I Set My Friends On Fire  Bridge Washed Out - Rick Nelson  Bridge Washed Out - Warner Mack  Oblivious - Samantha Stollenwerck  Till the Day I Die - Rob Halford  Till The Day I Die - Halford  The Connection - Phish  One Of Those Days - Little Big Town  Race with the Devil - Mojo Gurus  The Immortals - Kings Of Leon  The One Before - K'La  Memories of Tomorrow - Mekong Delta  Memories of Tomorrow - Mekong Delta  REBELS - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers  REBELS - Tom Petty  That Mountain - Billy Bob Thornton  one step at a time - Four Year Strong  Come a Little Closer - Lila McCann  Middle Of Nothing - Christopher Jak  Snow Day - Harder To Fall  One Foot In - Freeway  NRA Retirement Home - Thirty Called Arson  Bridge Washed Out - George Jones  Part Me, Part Machinery - Psycore  Repentagram - Demiricous  Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight...  Walking Slow - Jackson Browne  Pieces Of Place - Jandek  Something more besides you - Cowboy Junkies  Rebels (Tom Petty cover) - Drive-By Truckers  Wrong Foot Amputated - Offspring  Say Yes - Josh Wilson  I Breathe In, I Breathe Out - Chris Cagle  Skinny Minnie - Tony Sheridan  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Spike Jones  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Mitch Miller  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Harry Connick, Sr.  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Keely Smith  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Jimmy Roselli  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Ronald Curtis  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Tiny Hill  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Eureka Brass Band  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue...  Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue - Phil Harris  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Les Elgart  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Art Landry  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Louis Prima  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Merrill Moore  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Touch of Jazz  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Freddy Cannon  Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue - Don Reno  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - The Viscounts  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Bob Scobey  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - The Range Riders  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Red Nichols  Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue - Ian Menzies  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue...  Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Tony DeSare  Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anyone Seen My Gi...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Lanin's Red Heads  Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue - Billy May  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Already Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Barry Goldberg  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue [*] - The Hi-Lo's  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Jim Kweskin  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Erwin Helfer  Five Feet Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Feet Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue - Mickey Gilley  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My G...  Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Benny Strong  Phantom (Fly Away) - ft. Gus Farias...  Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight - George Jones  The Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight...  One Foot Short - Love Automatic  One Foot Down - Peter Bradley Adams  One Foot Wrong - P!nk  One Foot Boy - MIKA  Five Foot One - Iggy Pop  One Foot Wrong [*] - P!nk  One Foot Wrong - Pink  One Foot In - Sugababes  One Foot Out - Nasri  Mary Ann - Regina Spektor
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.