Odessa – Gallows

I couldn’t blur it all out if I had a thousand years
I’d need a hundred more to make it disappear
If I had to do it all over again, there’s no way I would
Everyone would go missing

End me in the Black Sea, scatter my ashes in the East
End me in the Black Sea, Odessa, oh Odessa
End me in the Black Sea, scatter my ashes in the East
End me in the Black Sea, Odessa, oh Odessa

You can stare at a car crash, but it’ll stare right back
The violent labours of love in the back of a Cadillac
You wanna know your fortune, no matter what the cost
You’re at the bottom of the world

End me in the Black Sea, scatter my ashes in the East
End me in the Black Sea, Odessa, oh Odessa
End me in the Black Sea, scatter my ashes in the East
End me in the Black Sea, Odessa, oh Odessa

I’m a tourist
I’m a wreck
I’m a vomit-green transparency lighting up a cigarette
I’m a sycophant
I’m a small time crook
I’m a hail of bullets
I’m a name crossed out in your history book

End me in the Black Sea, scatter my ashes in the East
End me in the Black Sea, Odessa, oh Odessa
End me in the Black Sea, scatter my ashes in the East
End me in the Black Sea, Odessa, oh Odessa