All Them Horses
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About All Them Horses
“All Them Horses” was written in the wake of the catastrophic 2023 Vermont floods. Performed sporadically as an unreleased track, it became one of Kahan’s most emotional songs, which he described during a live performance as “super sad and slow.” Thematically, the song explores survivor’s guilt and the emotional displacement that can accompany sudden fame. It highlights the contrast between the narrator’s physical safety—situated in airport lounges and “ninety’s planes”—and the destruction of the land that raised him. .
All Them Horses Lyrics
[00:24.27] Window seat in a '90s plane
[00:29.63] See the rivers meet and spread like veins
[00:35.55] Another airport lounge another timezone change
[00:38.76] Gonna dance around and sing about my pain
[00:41.68] Okay, it pays
[00:47.18] See the dried flood lines on the neighbors' porches
[00:53.36] Do you remember crying for all them horses?
[00:59.28] They did not look scared at all
[01:02.06] They did not look scared, they did not look scared at all
[01:11.23] So tell me when it feels you cannot escape me
[01:17.12] Just yell like dad would yell at all the noise I'm making
[01:22.75] I'm just happy you still call
[01:25.74] I'm just happy, I'm just happy you still call
[01:34.98] City kid bought the farm, he's a real nice guy
[01:40.75] Left a lifetime invitation for my friends and I
[01:46.89] Couldn't make it back even if I tried
[01:49.53] Somethings live forever even when they die
[01:52.49] Oh my
[01:53.83] My my my my my
[02:04.78] You know I wanna beat it, I wanna beat it bad
[02:07.26] Oh, everyone looks happy in a photograph
[02:10.33] I crossed the county line I cannot go back
[02:13.28] I'm always on my own
[02:22.67] Couldn't make it home 'cause of all that rain
[02:25.25] Oh, run of bad luck in a nowhere state
[02:27.97] Oh, I'm high above us now in a big jet plane
[02:31.06] I'm always on my own
[02:36.96] I'm always on my own
[03:09.56] I ain't planned it, the plane
[03:12.23] Plane just landed out here
[03:14.90] Rubbed my eyes on 89
[03:18.03] Double yellow murdered deer
[03:21.25] You can vanish, yes love
[03:23.85] You can try to disappear
[03:26.98] Thousand eyes on a dirt road
[03:29.44] Strike a light, let it burn slow
[03:32.83] Maybe I'm manic again, but I think this time I'm out for good
[03:38.64] I'm a sidewalk preacher with a record deal
[03:41.30] I'm the weight of new sneakers on some dead wood
[03:44.79] This is ain't mine anymore
[03:47.37] I made too much goddamn noise
[03:50.93] Done staring at the void
[03:53.84] I'm spin-castin' with the boys
[04:01.72] You know I wanna beat it, I wanna beat it bad
[04:04.02] Oh, everyone looks happy in a photograph
[04:06.90] I crossed the county line, and I cannot go back
[04:09.72] I'm always on my own
[04:19.54] Couldn't make it home 'cause of all that rain
[04:22.27] Oh, run with bad luck in a nowhere state
[04:24.75] Oh, high above us now in a big jet plane
[04:28.03] I'm always on my own
[04:34.03] I'm always on my own
[04:48.98] See the dried flood lines on the neighbors porches
[04:54.70] You remember crying for all them horses
[05:00.70] They did not look scared at all
[05:03.54] They did not look scared, they did not look scared at all
[05:08.06]
[00:29.63] See the rivers meet and spread like veins
[00:35.55] Another airport lounge another timezone change
[00:38.76] Gonna dance around and sing about my pain
[00:41.68] Okay, it pays
[00:47.18] See the dried flood lines on the neighbors' porches
[00:53.36] Do you remember crying for all them horses?
[00:59.28] They did not look scared at all
[01:02.06] They did not look scared, they did not look scared at all
[01:11.23] So tell me when it feels you cannot escape me
[01:17.12] Just yell like dad would yell at all the noise I'm making
[01:22.75] I'm just happy you still call
[01:25.74] I'm just happy, I'm just happy you still call
[01:34.98] City kid bought the farm, he's a real nice guy
[01:40.75] Left a lifetime invitation for my friends and I
[01:46.89] Couldn't make it back even if I tried
[01:49.53] Somethings live forever even when they die
[01:52.49] Oh my
[01:53.83] My my my my my
[02:04.78] You know I wanna beat it, I wanna beat it bad
[02:07.26] Oh, everyone looks happy in a photograph
[02:10.33] I crossed the county line I cannot go back
[02:13.28] I'm always on my own
[02:22.67] Couldn't make it home 'cause of all that rain
[02:25.25] Oh, run of bad luck in a nowhere state
[02:27.97] Oh, I'm high above us now in a big jet plane
[02:31.06] I'm always on my own
[02:36.96] I'm always on my own
[03:09.56] I ain't planned it, the plane
[03:12.23] Plane just landed out here
[03:14.90] Rubbed my eyes on 89
[03:18.03] Double yellow murdered deer
[03:21.25] You can vanish, yes love
[03:23.85] You can try to disappear
[03:26.98] Thousand eyes on a dirt road
[03:29.44] Strike a light, let it burn slow
[03:32.83] Maybe I'm manic again, but I think this time I'm out for good
[03:38.64] I'm a sidewalk preacher with a record deal
[03:41.30] I'm the weight of new sneakers on some dead wood
[03:44.79] This is ain't mine anymore
[03:47.37] I made too much goddamn noise
[03:50.93] Done staring at the void
[03:53.84] I'm spin-castin' with the boys
[04:01.72] You know I wanna beat it, I wanna beat it bad
[04:04.02] Oh, everyone looks happy in a photograph
[04:06.90] I crossed the county line, and I cannot go back
[04:09.72] I'm always on my own
[04:19.54] Couldn't make it home 'cause of all that rain
[04:22.27] Oh, run with bad luck in a nowhere state
[04:24.75] Oh, high above us now in a big jet plane
[04:28.03] I'm always on my own
[04:34.03] I'm always on my own
[04:48.98] See the dried flood lines on the neighbors porches
[04:54.70] You remember crying for all them horses
[05:00.70] They did not look scared at all
[05:03.54] They did not look scared, they did not look scared at all
[05:08.06]
From the album: The Great Divide: The Last Of The Bugs
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