| Okkervil River – Where the Spirit Left Us Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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correction: Through the wall in a soft spring rustle. Street-side selling some summer hustle. And across the Maple Street Bridge in a bristling fall, just whistling, All's a balled-up riddle, just a high snowball, on a curve-and-fall through a parking lot at Christmas. I heard her whisper. I heard him call. Here's what the gist was: Only wary in our lives- Open-eyed and half-ashamed that is to say. A float on a ferry, freezing, tired, fully wired, a total waste, that's where the spirit left us. Underneath the house, just like a flameout teen who smells like sweat and gasoline. Kid, I stand with you. And when you get hard, and your eyes get mean because you're on the march... well, I could almost kiss you. Don't let them twist you. Here have this song- you can take it with you: Stay lonely, open-wide, your eyes all fire, your mind aflame. Don't be disgraced. Loose of limb, unlionized, while all liars fade to grey. I know you feel detested. Did a silence drop? Did your walkman stop? Did the air turn cold? Was the message just so close? Oh but did you choke it? Oh, kid, I know. I know where this is going. Because we always blow it. Only wary in our lives - Open-eyed and half-ashamed. It's just that way. Afloat down that river, freezing, tired, fully wired, a total waste, that's where the spirit left us. Only wary in our lives, your eyes all fire, your mind aflame, and don't be dismayed, when this sobbing world goes screaming by. I swear that if I had my way, you know I would have blessed it. |
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| Shearwater – Believing Makes It Easy Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Not an instrumental! Correct lyrics, transcribed from the album insert: now that we have pulled away is it better on the inside? and did you like the offerings on the counter, under black lights? while the stars have aligned with a light that irradiates all of us in the parallel let the temperature rise til the urge to relieve it is perilous let the silences make it easy driving through the border range did we pass along the same road we are ashes in the polar rays we are blooming at the same time while the sun slips away from the crest of the barricade radiant in the winter light if a tenth of the law is the urge to invalidate starry-eyed and inveterate and invincible you make it easy is it heart attack and burial? is it evening on the west side? now that we are coming down are you bracing for the next wave? the return of the life the return of the colors of everyone to the gallery I believe in the rush I believe in the gathering radiance I could walk alive through a burning wall believing makes it easy |
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| Shearwater – Run the Banner Down Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Ah, you've got most of it mixed up with 'pushing the river'. Correct lyrics, transcribed from the album insert: run the banner down and hide in the broken palms til out of the blackness comes a point of starry light and a mountain moves and the pressure drops snow on your open palms under a northern star leave the tape unwound and the film unthreaded in a summer rain where your image is frozen and thrown into the lake where your words rebound with the way laid out and your hands on my shoulders open your mouth close your eyes open your mouth |
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| Wye Oak – That I Do Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Fairly certain that it's "to show you that you never needed to earn my love" "I lie to you, but not as well as you do" Nnngh, such a beautiful, gritty song. The lives are fantastic, especially watching Jenn wail on her guitar and then *stop*. |
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