Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch) by Conor Oberst
Album : Salutations
Released : March, 2017
Genre : Alternative Rock
Label : Nonesuch
Just because you got it
You don’t have to flaunt it
With an endless stream of famous men
Pretty as a portrait
Looked like Mamah Borthwick
On that Shining Brow of Taliesin
Someone might try and burn it down
So you’ll have to put the fire out
A fortune spent, but that’s irrelevant
To build something that’s sacred till the end
It cost twenty dollars
To visit Fallingwater
It’s the perfect house where no one lives
Maybe someone once did
But they got evicted
By a busload full of greedy tourists
And it would take a time machine
To fulfill all of my fantasies
A hidden dream can be embarrassing
And the only thing that’s sacred till the end
Every time I tempt fate
There’s a major earthquake
Heard the people scream as the ceiling fell
Every building damaged
Only one left standing
It was Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel
A rumination in my mind
Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim
And I’m, I’m not there yet but I’m feeling confident
To build something that’s sacred till the end
[Salutations (Album 2017)] :
01 Too Late to Fixate
02 Gossamer Thin
03 Overdue
04 Afterthought
05 Next Of Kin
06 Napalm
07 Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch)
08 Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out
09 Barbary Coast (Later)
10 Tachycardia
11 Empty Hotel by the Sea
12 Anytime Soon
13 Counting Sheep
14 The Rain Follows the Plow
15 You All Loved Him Once
16 A Little Uncanny
17 Salutation