Back In The Box Lyrics — Ballad Lines

[SARAH]
Go
Back into your box
Stay there with your
Disapprove
Tongue-and-groove
Piercin' stare...
Rockin' chair
Go
Back into your grave
Down there in the
Distant south
Whisky mouth
Open door
Hardwood floor...
No

This is the road I chose
This is the way my weather blows
Close my eyes and see
The person I decide to be
This is the honest me
Feather-light and flyin' free
Move on and don't look back
Paper over every crack
[JEAN, spoken]
Told ye I'd find a way oot

[SHONA, spoken]
Ye're hae'in a laugh


[JEAN, spoken]
Reverend MacGregor's got four ships. Says no king in London will tell him how to pray, so he's leavin for America, and takin his congregation wi him

[SHONA, spoken]
But you're no in MacGregor's congregation

[JEAN, spoken]
No yet, I'm no

[ANCESTORS]
Wish I was in London
Or some other seaport town
One foot on a sailboat
I'd sail the ocean-

[SARAH]
No
Today I make a home
A home without a
Hell beneath
Gritted teeth
Holy books
Judging looks...
No
I am in the now
I am in the
Happy place
Open space
Inner smile
Feng shui style
[ANCESTORS]
This is the truth you face
This is a line you can't erase

[SARAH]
Get back where you belong
And don't ask me to sing your song

[ANCESTORS]
This is the blood you bleed
You are the fruit born of the seed

[SARAH]
Yours is a thorny tree
And no fruit ever grew for me

[BETTY, spoken]
As Cait's belly began to swell, she wrote in her journal-

[CAIT, spoken]
There's no mistakin it noo. Dizzy spells, backache, an ma mood's like four seasons each day. I've telt Jamie I'm no weel. I'm wrapped up aw day long and he's none the wiser

[SARAH]
No
Get you out the door
Cause I don't need a portal to
Another time
I'm fine with mine
I'm doin' fine
Girl
You do not need to sing
The stale and sour tune
Of some old song you knew
With words that don't belong to you
They never did
They never will
They never did
They never will

What harm can it do just to hear
A bedtime tale or two
Just to lend an ear
To peer at the page of the past
What harm can it do to me now?
I am far away
It's not as if the wind will change
And leave me stuck there

[CAIT]
Mammy telt me, Cait ma dear
"There's aye a sang for every fear"
But Mammy I can hardly hear
Ma voice aneath the thunder in ma head
A body feeds aff mine
Growin in me like a vine
Spirallin aroon ma spine
Stealin aw the saftness fae ma bed

[SHONA, spoken]
Jean, we both ken you only go to kirk for the singin, and noo ye want tae join a holy voyage across the sea? Whit aboot yer femly? I canna dig the fields on ma ain

[JEAN, spoken]
Then come wi me

[SHONA, spoken]
You are some article, Jean

[JEAN, spoken]
The rents are triplin, the land's dryin up. Soon there'll be nae fields to dig. So stay and starve if ye want tae, but I'm takin ma bairn where it can hae the future it deserves

[SHONA]
Naw!
Yer thinkin of yerself

[JEAN]
I'm no!

[SHONA]
Cause if ye really cared aboot
The bairn the way ye say ye dae
Ye'd find a groom to wed
But naw
She just thinks of herself

She'll let her sister tak the blame
Brak the chain
Leave us at hame
To clean up aw the mess

[JEAN]
This is the choice I mak
This is the road I choose to tak

[SHONA]
It is a rocky road
And you're too young to lug that load
Brazen the blood you bleed
Feral the fruit born of the seed

[CAIT, JEAN, SARAH]
I know where I belong
So don't ask me to sing your song

Heavy the weight you bear
Rough is the cloth you choose to wear

[JEAN]
Leave me the hell alane
We've enough to mak a hame
Withoot yer screechin
And yer shame

[SHONA, spoken]
Fine. Go then. But when ye're halfway roon the world wi a stone-cold bairn in yer arms and naeb'dy to help ye up, dinna come cryin to me

[CAIT, JEAN, SARAH]
The weather moves through me now
The water risin' in me now
The wind it blows through me now
The wind it howls!
Last Update: March, 04th 2026