- Bavarian Porcelain
Watched you in the light
Cool white, flawless skin
White blonde hair like a waterfall
Pouring down all over your navy cardigan
You poured us some tea
Bergamot mist curling up to the tin
And the back of your hands are smooth
- Black Dirt
Here on the ground
i cannot hear a sound
just a strong and steady rain
getting louder as you sing
it may be true that i lied
i broke a promise that i tried
but my heart no longer beats
- Black Leaf Falls
It weighs too much this time
My hands are broken
She'll disappear again
Before we've spoken
The night we took that year
In Black Leaf Falls
All of the trees were bare
Next to the dance hall
- Blue Stockings
"Blue Stockings"
Open the window up
The one besides the armoire
I need some cool autumn air
In this baroque hotel room
While you put on your stockings
Cause on the rocker by the mirror
- Dear Fellow Traveler
Dear fellow traveler
Under the moon
I saw you standing in the shadows and your eyes won't move
You put your hand out
Opened the door
You said come with me boy, I want to show you something more
You spoke my language
- Dew In The Grass
Here by the river side
I brought my soon to be bride
Through the fog and smoke
Watch the geese and the barges float
She's singing the city dawn
Wrap my limbs inside her clear song
Every car passing by slowed
To hear my beloved sigh
- Don't You Love Me Anymore
Outside in the forest air,
left my love in the dark, there.
In her sleep she went walking through
great plains in her father's shoes.
We love choose who we choose to love.
Take it back, back, mother,
cuz you've said too much.
- Good morning dear
Good Morning Dear
I hope I didn't wake you too soon
Because my mind is growing tired
Too much thinking what I should do
I picture you out there
It must be beautiful this time of year
All those East Coast leaves
Floating round like embers from burning trees
- I Made A Resolution
Well I woke up this morning
and I made a resolution
I said, “I’m never going to sing
another sad song again.”
I decided I’d admit it
I am not an intellectual
No the words, they never come easy
unless I’m singing them
- Leaves In The River
I met a girl on halloween
well she was lost and I was drunk
and it was dark and cold out when we left
and as we walked the rain started
the leaves I've felt
with every step and all around around us
people slept alone with their dreams
- Middle Distance Runner
Well I'm so sad tonight
And the words won't come out right
It's been a long day on the track
And its stamina that I lack
So won't you run to me tonight?
Tonight we could pretend that we're just lovers
But I'll only ever be a middle distance runner
- Neutral Ground
Among the trees and by the river
lying there, my darling shivers
In her sleep she dreams of winter
whiter than her breast.
I feel her heart move through her chest
warm and steady as she rests.
Hear water ebbing with her breath
- Old Friend
Old friend come back home
Even though you always were alone
You had to push against the faiths
Just to make it, make it through the gate
But now we're getting older
And we're growing up
- Priscilla
Cold misty evening
I watched you walking up the path
Up to the front door
Your footsteps in the grass
We've been here before
You out there while I'm stuck in here
Looking out from the bedroom
With a crack in the glass
- Ram's Head
I thought I said it all and I put it upon the wall
The golden ram's head hanging just above the fireplace
The flames crackled and the wood was glowing
The flames were warm and then the wood was glowing
Yesterday is over and tomorrow nears
But I just wanna lay right here
A blanket on your shoulder as tomorrow nears
- Ses Monuments
We walk
We walk with folded hands
and we’re careful with our feet
We listen
We listen with open ears
and every word is a kiss
is a sigh
is a promise from beautiful lips
- Song for the Dead
Awake without warning
The black of the morning
All shimmery jewels
From the voice of a fool
Echoes through the halls
Of the building
He built in her place
- Song of the Magpie
I know you are there
In the light, in the air
I know you won't leave
The dirt, or the trees
Last night I closed my eyes
And you did come to me
- Spirit Horse
Spirit horse, spirit me away
I had a vision by the river side today
Spirit horse, spirit me away
Come take my body, fly me over the bay
I was a petty thief in the dirt
I took my (?) back from you, made you hurt
You were a dove of simple beauty and call
- Stanislaus
You sent your silvery warning
Black horizon storming, storming
Summer steam in the morning
Oh Stanislaus, don't hold your breath for me
You were a beautiful fable
Swept your dirt under the table, table
I'd trade your oak for a maple
- The Cold, the Dark, and the Silence
Please don't lie, don't lie to me
That you're not afraid, my love.
I know you well enough to know
You can't be alone.
If you were to roll, to roll down your window
You'd find the wind, the ice, the trees
That sway like skeletons outside.
- The Garden That You Planted
Good morning dear,
I hope I didn't wake you too soon
Because my mind is growing tired
Too much thinking what I should do
I picture you out there
It must be beautiful this time of year
All those east coast leaves
- The Garden You Planted
Good morning dear,
I hope I didn't wake you too soon
Because my mind is growing tired
Too much thinking what I should do
I picture you out there
It must be beautiful this time of year
All those east coast leaves
- The Orchard
Last night we went out to the orchard in the snow
There in the constellations, a big dipper far below
We walked through the blackness, felt the endless space around
And you bent down on your knee and picked an apple from the ground
Out past the forest where the Saint Lawrence lies
We heard the cargo ships go pushing through the ice
You turned when we heard them
- The Promise
Winter city by the ocean
Building lights glimmer on the bay
Oh, how you woke him from his slumber
Gently now, gently with a kiss
And we went drifting over to the corner
Our eyes move with us, graceful in the shadows
We think of the mystery
- The Rose Captain
This part is for my love of old
How the Rose in your heart you hold
Still, all the water in your wells
won’t make it grow
O the call of the nightingale
how I loved thee
neath the ghostly sails
- The Traitor
Hyacinth lighting virgin
breathing in your ear
She says you’ve gone and hurt her
turned her pure-white body clear
Shiver through the open window
the streetcars rumble by
You long for your winter lady
not this stranger by your side
- The Violet Hour
Your lips are nettles
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter's liquid
But your body's pine
You love all sailors
But hate the beach
You say "Come touch me"
- The Water's Wide
Oooh I don't wanna leave here now
Now that I found my legs somehow
But it feels like the water's wide
So I don't wanna leave here now
Oooh I don't wanna leave here now
Now that I found my legs somehow
But I feel like the water's wide
- Turn the Dirt Over
Come closer to the window-frame
Window to the dark and the field of snow
I saw you running like summer-flame
Running through the grass
Turning gold to black
Oh, turn the dirt over
If you want to grow back
- Two Strangers
Oh, how I saw you in the world
Young and free
As the young should be
And we, we saw everything through glass
Sapphire blue, colouring of you
And every, every cloud was silver and
Even we liked, up in time
- Where The Wind Blows
Up in the morning alone again
but an eastern light is creeping in
and the sun's just behind the clouds
I can feel its warmth coming down
I felt like a stranger here
everything I've known just disappeared
into the cold, cold air
- Whirlpool
What is this pulling, tugging at me
limbs so heavy, dragging me down again
into the depths of cold blue water
but don't believe me, I swear this isn't me
I just want to feel the sunlight warm and soothing on my naked skin
So I'm hoping this cold blue water scrubs me clean
Oh my one, swear I'm trying
What good would it do lying
- White Water, White Bloom
I felt the cold of the ice and water
come flowing through as it pulled me under
I saw my hand reaching out in the ether
and touch the branches in my cold white fever
Flow, white water, flow
down to me
- Wicked Blood
We met in the east
Poured in like a flood
You're the whispering kind
Dark sapphire blood
You're a vision of veils
All shimmery white
Like a backdrop of sails
All aglow from the light
- Winter Windows
There is a man inside a room in the forest
He sits alone upon the chair his father left him
In the dark, in the dark, in the dark with the radio on
The voice crackles when it says that God will save you
He will take you from the lonely life you're living
If you give, if you give, if you give up on what you want
- winter's heir
Stepped out through the melting ice
Took care in the coming light
Cathedral bells ringing down
Branches blooming all through town
And in my ears a steady ring
kept me moving toward the spring
It was a long long and cold year
but I think it’s all becoming clear
- Witchknife
Had a vision
Had a vision of
myself alone again
Rough and wild
Rough and wild again
with claws and teeth
- You're a Wolf
I'm walking
On the southern street
Cut to the river
'Ffore I run too low
I'm walking
On the southern street
Cut to the river
'Fore I run too low
- You're A Wolf 1
I’m walkin', on southern stream, get to the river ‘fore I run too low.
I’m walkin', on southern stream, get to the river ‘fore I run too low.
Old gypsy woman spoke to me, lips stained red from a bottle of wine.
Old gypsy woman spoke to me, lips stained red from a bottle of wine.
“The one that you are looking for, you’re not gonna find her here.”
“The one that you are looking for, you’re not gonna find her here, here.”
- Young Bodies
Outside in the evening, spent
Bored so we ran out around
Young bodies in motion, tearing through the town
We laid on your parent's floor
Listen 'til 4am
To the tapes we used to make
And never would again