Тексты песен «Handsome Family»

Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds An asteroid in flames tumbling to Earth Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves The flicker of a strange light far out across the sea Love is like a...

I swear I heard a bird high in the chestnut trees The sun was so bright, that bird I couldn't see No matter where I stood I couldn't see beak or wing Just burning, blinding leaves, still and silent trees Were you with...

my ghost drives around with a bag of dead fish falling neutrinos drift through the trees he staggers and reels, runs up credit card bills and clogs up the toilet with bottles of pills here in the bipolar ward if you...

we came in this world together legs wrapped around each other my cheek against my sister's we were born like tangled vine we lived along the river where the black clouds never lingered the sunlight spread like honey in...

Why do you dream Of pearly white gates High in the air Where no bird flies No tree grows Beyond the sky Our blue sky Why do you dream That worms and dogs Hills and clouds Are not like you Burning...

I didn't wrap my head in roses I didn't run screaming down the street I didn't drive off jagged cliffs Or dive in roaring seas I broke no cage door open I set no horses free The day the girl at the drive-thru window...

falling snow spun above the road winding through the dark woods where my pick-up stalled falling snow hissing through the air painting my windows white till the trees disappeared even though I started to feel cold and...

In the last days of wonder When spirits still flew Where we sat holding hands In half-darkened rooms Nicola Tesla In the hotel New Yorker Nursing sick pigeons By the open window Dreamed of a death ray To...

the giant of Illinois died from a blister on his toe after walking all day throughthe first winter's snow throwing bits of stale breadto the last speckled doves he never even felt his shoe full of blood delirious with...

My heart is a beating compass pointing to the pole The great expanse of stillness, the true magnetic north I know the sky blue longing of a cloud of spiraling birds All turning in an instant, a perfect spinning whirl I...

When we were together I lay in your river As the fish swam through my hands Raindrops and roses fell from the heavens Just to brush against your skin And a strand of your hair lost to the wind Sent doves wheeling...

Chicago is where the woman downstairs starved herself to death last summer her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept with the gray rats out on the fire escape in a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer and dreamed of...

I left a black shoe hanging From a telephone wire I threw hubcaps in the bushes Filled the creek with burning tires I drove circles in the meadow Threw tvs off a cliff I scattered dirty needles In a grassy ditch...

we stopped for coffee in the Redwood forest giant dripping leaves, spoons of powdered cream I wanted to kiss you but I wasn't sure how like those indians, lost in the rainforest forced to drag burning wood wherever they...

Up on the drawbridge when we stood in the wind My car left running, the doors wide open The wind spread ripples along the river waves Your hands in my hair as the drawbridge swayed You leaned in closer as the sun fell...

now that there are green sproutspushing through dead leaves and fat yellow jackets float on the breeze the waves kiss the shore and the air is warm but birch trees are falling now that you're gone once we walked the...

When you walked with me Away from the strip mall bar Across the highway To that little graveyard Where plastic flowers Bloomed in yellow grass We sat on a broken bench Listening to the cars pass And right above your...

Give me a swamp, a deep dark bog Where I can lose my way in pools of slippery mud Give me cold, cold rain; a cloud of stinging bugs Deadly nightshade, poison oak; give me the wild, wild wood The wild, the wild, wild,...

Like four million tons of hydrogen Exploding on the sun Like the whisper of the termites Building castles in the dust You're no longer leaving foot prints You left your wallet on the bus Your great journey has begun...