Iron & Wine - Letras de Músicas
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1. A Book Unfinished
You returned the book unfinished about a girl with raven hair; And a gentleman, her lover, who presented her a mare; Which she rode across the country, leaving him to tend the land; Which had turned t...
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2. A History Of Lovers
Louise only got from me innocent poetry; Although she played to not listen; But still I can hear myself speak as if no one else; Ever could offer the same; Some say she knowingly tasts like a recipe; ...
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3. Ab's Song
And if I died at twenty-three; Would you bury me in the sunshine? Please let me know that you’re still mine; Though I’m gone; My love for you is oh-so strong; And when the grass grows over me; Let me ...
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4. An Angry Blade
Who left you so? Who left you so? Who left you so? Striking a match for the keyhole; Dark as the evening laid; When he left you all alone; Turning to fade through the sawgrass; Tall as the only love; ...
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5. Beauty And Family
Reading letters; Ancient coins; And pockets full of earth; Chance I'll see you; Next December; Bathtub running; Joining hands; And naked as a bird; That's a vision; I'll remember; Pull the covers of t...
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6. Belated Promise Ring
Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again; There's a kid outside the church kicking a can; When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind; The weather can close the world wi...
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7. Beneath The Balcony
Let's go out and dance, darling; Our last of days; And grace the game with a blindfold on; The cheaters came to play; And outside the soft-handed boys; Screaming cars and all their speed; Music, math,...
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8. Big Burned Hand
When the arrogant goddess of love came to steal my shoes; She had a white-hot pistol and a noname hard tattoo; Saying one's to give; And one's to take away; But neither of them will keep you off your ...
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9. Bird Stealing Bread
Tell me baby tell me; Are you still on the stoop; Watching the windows close; I've not seen you lately; On the street, by the beach; Or places we used to go; I've a picture of you; On our favorite day...
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10. Biting Your Tail
May your eyes be wide and seeing; May you learn from the view where you're kneeling; Know the fear of the world that you're feeling; Is the fear of a slave; May you know how the fight was started; Won...
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11. Blue Leaves
Strength like a stone, a texture you know; And sewn in your children's quilts you made; Can you be meek, lowered and weak; Possibly tired as to see; Her eyes upon you under blue leaves at night; And w...
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12. Boy With A Coin
A boy with a coin he found in the weeds; With bullets and pages of trade magazines; Close to a car that flipped on the turn; When God left the ground to circle the world; A girl with a bird she found ...
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13. Broken Spinning Wheel
Stepping gently down the garden row; Susie she prays but yet nothing grows; Empty driveway and a flagpole tap; Breeze at her back & her hands in her lap; Susie says she'd like to talk; Sinking sunshin...
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14. Burn That Broken Bed
How do you bust the clouds; Press on your back been hanging in the air; I wanna scope you out; I wanna touch your mouth when you're up there; When are you coming back; Bird on a branch will come back ...
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15. California
The postman passed me twice now, I have waited an hour; Blue sky churning black now, needled rain with the power; Of magnified abandon, soaking through to my moving; And vivid truth I’m doubting all t...
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16. Call Your Boys
Call your boys now that the table's set and shining; No one's seen any of them in many days; Call your boys they shut a buzzard on a Chrysler; And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace; ...
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17. Calm On The Valley
There's a rooster, a hen, a black dog; By my kid in the yard; And I've tattooed the head; Of the woman I've wed on my arm; We sit on the lawn; And she winks and she yawns; At the sound that the settin...
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18. Carissa's Weird
Is there a race involved? You run and hide, you get two stars; Last night two fat skinheads whistled at her; But she sleeps it off; A whiskey scent on her kitten’s fur; And when it’s time to go; I’ll ...
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19. Carousel
Almost home; When I missed the bottom stair; You were braiding your gray hair; It had grown so long; Since I'd been gone; And the perfect girls; By the pool, they would protest; The cross around their...
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20. Cinder And Smoke
Give me your hand; The dog in the garden row is covered in mud; And dragging your mother's clothes; Cinder and smoke; The snake in the basement; Found the juniper shade; The farmhouse is burning down;...
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21. Cold Town
Magazines and paperbacks, the perfect rainy day; Jenny's packed the car by now and probably on her way; Rise and put the kettle on, this feeling calls for tea; Tommy get the telephone, it wouldn't be ...
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22. Communion Cups And Someone's Coat
Talk of yesterday and; She will show her; Brothers photographed; In callous clothes. Say tommorow and; She'll say come find me; On a beach, and there will no moon. But say today, and she will kiss you...
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23. Dead Man's Will
Give this stone to my brother; Cuz we found it playing in the barnyard; Many years ago; Give this bone to my father; He'll remember hunting in the hills; When I was 10 years old; May my love reach you...
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24. Dead Man's Will (in The Reins Version)
Give this stone to my brother; Cause we found it playing in the barnyard; Many years ago; Give this bone to my father; He'll remember hunting in the hills; When I was 10 years old; May my love reach y...
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25. Dearest Forsaken
To my dearest forsaken; Who the earth now has taken; Empty, the bottle drains no more; It is true that i loved you; Despite the harm that i own you; Wash out the river has you boy; Here on the eve of ...
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26. Die
Though our fathers' fathers slept in stolen houses; All that's over now; And our babies never cry; And we can look you in the eye; And say, "We're not afraid to die"; And yes, our mothers' mothers saw...
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27. Each Coming Night
Will you say when I'm gone away; "My lover came to me and we'd lay; In rooms unfamiliar but until now"; Oh, oh, oh, oh; Until now; Will you say to them when I'm gone away; "I loved your son for his st...
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28. Evening On The Ground (Lilith's Song)
Hey man, evening on the ground; and there is no one else around; so you will blame me; blame me for the rocks; and baby bones and broken lock; on the garden; garden wall of eden; for the spider bites;...
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29. Expecting To Fly
There you stood on the edge of your feather; Expecting to fly; While I laughed, I wondered whether; I could wave goodbye; Knowin' that you'd gone; By the summer it was healing; We had said goodbye; Al...
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30. Faded From The Winter
Daddy's ghost behind you; Sleeping dog beside you; You're a poem of mystery; You're the prayer inside me; Spoken words like moonlight; You're the voice that I like; Needlework and seedlings; In the wa...
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31. Fever Dream
Some days her shape in the doorway; Will speak to me; A bird’s wing on the window; Sometimes I’ll hear when she’s sleeping; Her fever dream; A language on her face; "I want your flowers like babies wa...
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32. Fistful Of Roses
A fistful of roses ain’t the best thing I could do; I called by the clothesline, and the fish pond Called out for you; You want an urgent, bent-guitar string kind of man; And you built a bridge now fo...
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33. Flightless Bird, American Mouth
I was a quick wet boy, Diving too deep for coins; All of your street light eyes; Wide on my plastic toys; Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair; Stole me a dog-eared map; And cal...
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34. Foot Of The Manger
Awake through the night, and this flood water ‘round her; Reminds her of the time and low country boys; And their bottles without her, though she’s on their minds; Hands in black mud, at the foot of t...
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35. Free Until They Cut Me Down
When the men take me to the devil tree; I will be free and shining like before; Papa dont tell me what I should've done; She's the one who begged me; "Take me home"; When the wind wraps me like the re...
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36. Freedom Hangs Like Heaven
Mary, carry your babe; bound up tight like lips around a whimper; your fingers over my face; blind eyed Sampson driven to the temple; and night birds digging until dawn; freedom hangs like Heaven over...
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37. Friends They Are Jewels
Dreamless sleep will fall like a deep, poisoned well; On the steeple birds and this red-light hotel; So lay your pistol down, Granny; The company men never came to you; But don’t unknit your brow, Gra...
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38. Glad Man Singing
I've become a glad man singing a song; About a soldier on a good and a fallen angel; Naked as a fish and a high; About a sad man climbed up a willow bough; And the cops are on the fence around a dog i...
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39. God Gave A Stone
She belongs back in western Kentucky; Or maybe somewhere in Tennessee; Far from home there’s a way to her body; Though she’s wind-blown and slightly; Long ago there were plums on the table; Where momm...
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40. God Made The Automobile
God made the automobile to pass all the pretty girls; The smoke by the side of the road, the blues lovin' boys in tow; To drive to the end of the day and bow to a borrowed flag; To ride all the brave ...
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41. Godless Brother In Love
Godless brother in love; You might as well; Lay down that rose; And fold the flag; She hears money and taps; That broken freedom bell; See her big children burning rags; By the riverside; You can hear...
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42. Gray Stables
brave lady, I could see you through; the mosses; laid, shameless in the sin; my lady with her porcelain and her; weightless; face, pleasing everyone; gray stables, and the horses of the; righteous; pr...
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43. Half Moon
Halfway home in the hilltop trees; And all our footprints in the snow; And the evening glow leaving; Low night noise in the wintertime; I wake beside you on the floor; Counting your breathing; Cause I...
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44. He Lays In The Reins
One more drink tonight as your gray stallion rests; Where he lays in the reins; For all of the speed and the strength he gave; One more kiss tonight from some tall stable girl; She's like grace from t...
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45. Her Tea Leaves
Come the evening of my days; The dark birds in the trees and in her garden; I think I’ll be there somewhere too; The yarrow by my head where I have fallen; And she will lick her thinner thumb; And rin...
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46. Hickory
he kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill; she'll never love him but knows that her father will; her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her; breast never dries when he's hungry; the...
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47. Homeward, These Shoes
Homeward the new road meanders; Washed out the old road as to what did I bring; Flowers, a verse about springtime; Perchance in the treeline she's awaiting for me; Homeward these shoes worn to paper; ...
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48. House By The Sea
There is a house by the sea; Two jealous sisters, they're waiting for me; And one is laid on the floor; And one is changing the locks on the doors; And I've been buying the time on my knees; And I've ...
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49. In Your Own Time
In your own time; You'll dream something evil; Sing like an old crow; And worship the land; Don't be scared; If I walk with the devil; Come down the mountain; And ask for your hand; Because we only wa...
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50. Innocent Bones
Cain got a milk-eyed mule from the auction; Abel got a telephone; And even the last of the blue-eyed babies know; That the burning man is the color of the end of day; And how every tongue that gets bi...
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51. It's The Same Old Song
You're sweet like a honeybee; But like a honeybee stings you've gone; And left my heart in pain; And all you left is our favorite song; The one we danced to all night long; It used to bring sweet memo...
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52. Jesus The Mexican Boy
Jesus the Mexican boy; born in a truck on the fourth of July; gave me a card with a lady naked on the back; Barefoot at night on the road; Fireworks blooming above in the sky; I never knew I was given...
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53. Jezebel
Who's seen Jezebel; She was born to be the woman I would know; And hold like a breeze half as tight as both eyes closed; Who's seen Jezebel; She went walking where the cedars line the road; Her blouse...
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54. John's Glass Eye
John don't see well in the evenings; Because of his one glass eye; That he got just as Martha was leaving; Shot him instead of saying goodbye; Though the door took the brunt of the buckshot; It scatte...
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55. Judgement
Day walks out and there's no sound; There's a candle burning by me now; Light enough for to see the things beyond me; Door is wide as a rise on me; So the night comes in and starts to breath; The only...
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56. Kingdom Of The Animals
Jenny was gone; And the moon blooms; All shining; As we dragged our panic; Up and down the riverbed; Sweating wild and weird; In our Sunday clothes; Jenny was gone; Though I thought that I knew her; A...
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57. Lion's Mane
Run like a race for family; When you hear like you're alone; The rusted gears of morning; To faceless busy phones; We gladly run in circles; But the shape we meant to make is gone; Love is a tired sym...
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58. Loud As Hope
Darling behave, though your boy is gone, or so we’ve heard; I feel you would rise if it was a song who’d say these words; Summer comes with its color all to take your breath away; Winter turns all the...
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59. Love And Some Verses
Love is a dress that you made; Long to hide your knees; love to say this to your face, "I'll love you only"; For your days and excitement, What will you keep for to wear? Someday drawing you different...
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60. Love Vigilantes
Oh, I've just come from the land of the sun; From a war that must be won in the name of truth; With our soldiers so brave your freedom we will save; With our rifles and grenades and some help from God...
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61. Love You This Hound
Walk on lightly far from sorrow; Walk and meet me, we'll meet tomorrow; Watch me growing, watch me dying; Hear my laughing, my hound a-crying; Walk on lightly, live what you do; While you're walking I...
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62. Lovesong Of The Buzzard
In the failing light of the afternoon; Lucy in the shade of the dogwood blooms; Yesterday the solace of a poison fish; Tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips; No one is the saviour they would ...
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63. Me and Lazarus
Me and Lazarus, we shovel all the ashes out; Black bare linens blowing 'round; Back and forth and up and down; oh oh woah, guess I had nowhere else to go; Me and Lazarus kept bailing on the riverboat;...
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64. Minor Piano Keys
Say, say something nice to her; Fragrant and sturdier; Delicate hands for shoulders sliding down; Days, days like a summer rain; Blink and they’re gone again; Soaking she sits alone, outside and down;...
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65. Monkeys Uptown
I knew you well, I know you best; A baby mouth, denied the breast; A lazy bone, an eagle eye; Circling a city that's higher than the sky; And it's looking like you better do what they say; Those monke...
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66. Morning
Hard light, take the wings of the winter; Song bird, they were strong hands that held her; Miles above ground, we can’t see you now; Morning took the reins from the rider; Strong hands on the lap behi...
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67. Mothers Of The Rodeo
Mothers of the rodeo; Like anyone who’s watched a lover go; And their blood thrown down; Torn and tossed around; Baby, say you’ll stay with me; We’ll build a bridge across it carefully; Just let them ...
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68. Mr. Soul
Well hello Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason; For the thought that I caught that my head in the event of the season; Why in crowds just a trace of my face could seem so pleasin'; I'll cop out...
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69. Muddy Hymnal
We found your name across the chapel door; Carved in cursive with a table fork; Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been; The shaking preacher told the captain's man; The righteous suffer in...
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70. My Lady's House
there is light in my lady's house; and there's none but some falling rain; this like a spoken word; she is more than her thousand names; no hands are half as gentle; or firm as they like to be; thank ...
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71. Naked As We Came
She says wake up it's no use pretending; I'll keep stealing breathing her; Birds are leaving over Autumn's ending; One of us will die inside these arms; Eyes wide open; Naked as we came; One will spre...
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72. No Moon
Black dog bit through the keeper’s chain; Small and angry when the Devil came; Sold my soul like a pocket knife; There was no moon, there’ll be no milk as sweet; Tomcat curled on a rabbit cage; Brittl...
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73. On Your Wings
God, there is gold hidden deep in the ground; God, there's a hangman that wants to come around; How we rise when we're born; Like the ravens in the corn; On their wings, on our knees; Crawling careles...
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74. Our Friends Shine
Yeah, you know this place; And your friends shine around you now; Yeah, you know this place; And their hands make the safest house; That you know, yeah, you know; And the sun’s sinkin’ slowly down; Ov...
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75. Overhead
How do you bust the clouds; Press on your back been hanging in the air; I wanna scope you out; I wanna touch your mouth when you're up there; When are you coming back; Bird on a branch will come back ...
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76. Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car
Love was a promise made of smoke; In a frozen copse of trees; A bone cold and older than our bodies; Slowly floating in the sea; Every morning there were planes; The shiny blades of pagan angels in ou...
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77. Passing Afternoon
There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon; Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon; And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her; Wooden spoons, her children s...
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78. Peace Beneath The City
Here’s a prayer for the body buried by the interstate; Mother of a soldier, a tree in a forest up in flames; Black valley, peace beneath the city; Where the women hear the washboard rhythm in their bo...
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79. Peng! 33
Curiosity was far greater than our fear; It felt so simple, so prodigious at the same time; Incredible things are happening in the world; Magical things are happening in this world; Across the river t...
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80. Phoenix
You're a raven on a tractor wheel; They don't feel the world the way you feel, no; You spread your wings like a phoenix, girl; Burnin' out like a song you heard and forgotten since
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81. Prison On Route 41
There’s a prison on Route 41; Home to my father, first cousin, and son; And I visit every weekend; Not with my body but with prayers that I send; I’ve a reason for my absentee; And no lack of love for...
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82. Promise What You Will
Lately she don't care for a warmer breeze; Or shade around the base of the maple trees; Spring was on the mountain we climbed upon; Stopped to see how high and how far we'd gone; I said "love is waiti...
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83. Promising Light
Time and all you gave; I was the jerk who preferred the sea; To tussling in the waves; Tugging your skirt singing please, please, please; Now I see love; Tracked on the floor where you walked outside;...
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84. Rabbit Will Run
Last I saw mother she rose from a chair; When they caught me I'd just finished combing my hair; 'Cause a rabbit will run, as a colt does along with the mare; We've all learned the earth while we carri...
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85. Radio War
Did the wine make her dream; Of the far, distant spring? Or a bed full of hens? Or the ghost of a friend? All the while that she wept; She'd a gun by her bed; And the letter he wrote; From a dry, foun...
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86. Rattling Bone
A skull and a jewel on a wooden cane; A rattling bone on a boat, on the waves you sail away; I will lay awake ‘til all your power’s gone; Whippin’ the pig ‘til it broke the gate; A table and chair by ...
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87. Red Dust
Dust gets red, and red dust plays; On the wind near Daniel's place; Danny's sick and smaller boy; Rhythm lingers on and on; On and on, on and on; Dust gets dead the sun gone down; Danny's boy lies in ...
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88. Resurrection Fern
In our days we will live; Like our ghosts will live:; Pitching glass at the cornfield crows; And folding clothes; Like stubborn boys across the road; We'll keep everything:; Grandma's gun and the blac...
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89. Sacred Vision
“There’s no way to temper your thirst; With lasting’ impressions or pictures of home; There’s no way to grow that don’t hurt”; She growled from the station then hung up the phone; There’s no sacred vi...
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90. Sinning Hands
Midnight, and her eyes; Hide like kittens, new and wet; Mine are sinning hands; On her lying on my bed; The river still may rise; Wild and water take us both; Mine are sinning hands; Take our bodies, ...
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91. Sixteen, Maybe Less
Beyond the ridge on the left, you asked me what I want; Between the trees and the chirping by the shading pond; “I spent and hour with you, should I want anything else?”; She rose and winked like the ...
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92. Sleeping Diagonally
Somehow when you laid here by my side; Somethin’ whispered words like rain is falling; Heavy, and she hated, loved to fight; Someone from the sun-cracked sidewalk calling out, “Yoo-hoo”; “Hey, uh huh”...
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93. Smokestack Lightning
Ah-ha, smokestack lightnin'; Shinin' just like gold; Why don't you hear me cryin'? Whoo-hoo, whoo-hoo; Ah-ha, tell me, baby; What's the matter with you? Why don't you hear me cryin'? Whoo-hoo, whoo-ho...
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94. Sodom, South Georgia
Papa died smiling; Wide as the ring of a bell; Gone all star white; Small as a wish in a well; And Sodom, South Georgia; Woke like a tree full of bees; Buried in Christmas bows; And a blanket of weeds...
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95. Someday The Waves
Waking before you; I've got a fever and a childish wish for snow; Seems like a long, long time since I spun you to this borrowed radio; You pick a place that's where I'll be; Time like your cheek has ...
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96. Southern Anthem
Just like the way that you ran to wine; When they made the new milk turn; Jesus a friend in the better times; Let your mother's Bible burn; Freedom a fever you suffered through; And the dog drank from...
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97. Such Great Heights
I am thinking it's a sign; That the freckles in our eyes; Are mirror images and; When we kiss they're perfectly aligned; And I have to speculate; That God himself did make us into; Corresponding shape...
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98. Sunset Soon Forgotten
Be this sunset soon forgotten; Your brothers left here shaved and crazy; We've learned to hide our bottles in the well; And what's worth keeping, sun still sinking; Down and down; Once again; Down and...
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99. Swans And The Swimming
"take me again," she said, thinking of him; "to the pond with the swans and the swimming"; far from his room the familiar perfume; how it felt to her when she was naked; lessons she learned when her m...
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100. Teeth In The Grass
And when you give me your clothes; And when we’re lovers at last; Fresh air, perfume in your nose; There will be teeth in the grass; And when you give me your house; When we’re all brothers at last; T...
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101. The Devil Never Sleeps
Dreaming again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea; (Big black cloud was low and rolling our way); Dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz cut friends and me; (Sound of a switchblade shin...
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102. The Night Descending
Black hair, the night descending; Baby never puts her trust in; Tight black tie too quick to laughter; Ain't no telling what he's after; Found a friend without religion; Riding on a stolen engine; Far...
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103. The Rooster Moans
Crack of dawn the rooster moans; Wake up boy you're far from home; Serpentine the tracks in flames; Longest path the devil laid; Led you straight aboard this rusty train; Lift your head cuz you can't ...
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104. The Sea And The Rhythm
Tonight, we're the sea and the salty breeze; the milk from your breast is on my lips; and lovelier words from your mouth to me; when salty my sweat and fingertips; Our hands they seek the end of after...
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105. The Specter Of Jasper County
The girl down the street saw my ghost on the road; But I sailed the backyard asleep in my boat; Both paddles broken, no sail for the wind; A bathtub, a bottle, to drown myself in; And she ran through ...
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106. The Sun Will Rise
What if you were told that the sky would fall tomorrow night; Would you run and hide or go and play? What if you were told that a boy named Cain was right outside; Would you run and hide or go and pla...
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107. The Wind Is Low
You, strong as a virgin birth; Me, keeping your every word; Two dots where a single was; Three, counting the little one; We sail in the smallest boat; Sleep just when the wind is low; You see from the...
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108. The Years Seal Their Beauty
Settle down my frazzled bride; You might frighten the children awake; With that tempest you hang on your face; You raise your fist and it trembles there; Like a branch tapping the window pane; In the ...
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109. This Solemn Day
You returned the book unfinished; About a girl with raven hair; And a gentleman, her lover; Who presented her a mare; Which she rode across the country; Leaving him to tend the land; Which had turned ...
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110. Thousand Miles
Pull the braid from your hair, so it falls down your back; I just passed Spartanburg, cigarettes on the dash; Will you wait on the swing, in the front of the house? Or the steps of the porch in a whit...
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111. Trapeze Swinger
Please, remember me; Happily; By the rosebush laughing; With bruises on my chin; The time when; We counted every black car passing; Your house beneath the hill; And up until; Someone caught us in the ...
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112. Tree By The River
Mary Anne, do you remember; the tree by the river; when we were seventeen? Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer; and the mare in the pasture; pitch black and baring its teeth. ; I recall the sun ...
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113. Two Hungry Blackbirds
Lovers accustomed to tragedy; See every kiss in the window across the street; Breezes and blessings passing by, ah ooh-oh; I'm in the shade of the dogwood tree; Not the one where you told your name to...
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114. Upward Over The Mountain
Mother don't worry, I killed the last snake that lived in the creek bed; Mother don't worry, I've got some money I saved for the weekend; Mother remember being so stern with that girl who was with me;...
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115. Wade Across The Water
I saw you wade across the river; Winter coat across your shoulders; Calling out, what did you say? If I wade across the water; When I rise will you be there; Holding on or turned the other way? I saw ...
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116. Walking Far From Home
WALKING FAR FROM HOME; I was walking far from home; Where the names were not burned along the wall; Saw a building high as heaven; But the door was so small, door was so small; I saw rain clouds, litt...
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117. Watch And Chain
Lost my watch, watch and chain, but time's not lost; This time we walk together beside the slow black river; Water-walking over mud you whisper something; Something good in my ear, so I stop so I can ...
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118. Waves of Galveston
Leave the waves of Galveston but only if you can; 'Cause you've been hit behind the seawall; gently folded in the sand; Papa left you for Heaven after your Mama lost her song; And though your baby lef...
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119. We All, Us Three, Will Ride
In a small far room the bed is set; With trinkets all surrounding; Yet alone it rests, so dry it sets; With souls aside abiding; There moves legs warm, and close inside; No, no leg braces a hello; And...
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120. Weary Memory
Found your mittens behind a box of pictures; You would wear them before I brewed the tea; That's one memory I can easily conjure; Weary memory I can always see; Found your rosary broken into pieces; E...
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121. White Tooth Man
Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen; “I’ve seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel”; So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch; And they both felt cheated after closing the deal; And the ...
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122. Wolves (song Of The Shepherd's Dog)
Wolves by the road; and a bike wheel spinning on a pawn shop wall; She’ll wring out her colored hair; like a butterfly beaten in a summer rainfall; And then roll on the kitchen floor; of some fucker w...
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123. Woman King
blackbird claw, raven wing; under the red sun, hide; long clothesline, two shirtsleeves; waving as we go by; hundred years, hundred more; someday we may see; a woman king; wristwatch time; slowin as s...
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124. Your Blue Eyes
Blue light setting lotus-style in your a-frame in the countryside; Stillness slides the door and walks inside; Candle on the windowsill burnt wickless through our low-lit meal; Heaven only knows what ...
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125. Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me
Fake watches in your broken hand; Barely keeping time; Barefoot in the city and your phone is ringing; Bet you're watching all the happy kids; Climbing on a car; They were singing something; Maybe the...
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