Тексты песен «Handsome Family»

A smashed windshield, the dust on a pickup truck Shine with silver secrets in the Albuquerque sun The light makes jewels of pawn shops and drive-thru banks Wrinkled faces staring out the windows of the laundromat And...

After the airship crashed After we lost the compass After the radio went dead We shot and ate the horses We marched through deadly swamps Inside a limestone cave I found a human skull Yes, Mary, I found a human skull...

I see you all the time in airports In the windows of the shuttle trains Flashing past between the terminals Below the rising planes And as I pull my shoes off Put my coins in the plastic tray I see you past the X ray...

Beautiful William ne morning in May In a milk-white convertible drove slowly away Beautiful William with curling black hair Gold rings on his fingers as he held to the wheel Was he given a package by a man on the...

Dented cars make me think of you Sitting on a red leather stool Drinking with your sunglasses on At the bowling alley bar And the sound of the crashing pins Behind us when we kissed The night I wrecked my father's car...

down that foggy road slow centipedes crawl plum blackberries fall and the ground is dark as blood down that foggy road the moon burns red as flame weeds snap in the rain dogs are dragged off in the flood bury me here...

the Cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship like the hand of God falling from the sky a 1000 stone-carved saints hang like icicles but icicles don't take 1000 years to die and everyone who ever worked on this...

Darling, my darling, look at my waving antennae My barbed jaw and hard red pincers, the stripes running down my spine Darling, my darling, watch me fly up in spirals Admire the horns 'neath my eyes, the fan of my...

I am not afraid when you call me down down the basement steps under the house down, down in the ground black cows are limping, the white dogs bark crickets are screaming, smoke in the barn just like a field snake...

down in the valley of hollow logs two lovers lay in the weeds safe in the net of their sweaty arms safe from the wind in the trees my love, said the boy, you're the clear blue sky you're the air I gulp to breathe I...

I came to a field of green where the corn stalks grew so tall The sunlight could not pierce to the winding path below Round and round I went under those waving stems I followed the shadowed path marked so faintly with...

It's four in the morning, the end of December I write you now just to see if you're better New York is cold but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening I hear that you're...

I can still see you there In your grass-stained underwear Dancing crooked circles Across the golf course green It must have been 3 a.m. When we hopped that chain link fence And ran across the grass In the pouring rain...

Last fall I hunted white-tail deer My dog and gun with me I wandered to a shady grove Where ivy grew dark green Where ivy grew dark green I raised my gun so carefully And fired into the trees Then saw it was my true...

there's a mountain north of Winnipeg buried under ice and as the black clouds roll above white pines crack like glass walking under those swaying trees branches bowed with ice I wanted one to fall on me to pin me in...

I want to kiss you in thickets and dripping wet glades As the stars rub against the dark skin of space Every planet is turning and calling your name For hundreds of miles the trees bend your way Because the green buds...

last night I went out walking out on the edge of town not going no place special only wandering around I came upon a river I thought about what you said and couldn't stop it flowing and running through my head you...

Like the thorn bush twines against the chain link fence Like the spider spins it's rings between the trees And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze I am the puddles in the street waiting for your falling leaves...

Oh, you little sparrows on a swaying branch Singing to the cars up on the overpass When you fly away from here take me with you when you go A herd of antelope, a sea of redwood trees Schools of shining fish and a...

Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch She lived high in the bramble forest Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right, she came down to our little village She brought blackberries and willow bark, mandrake root...