Тексты песен «Karine Polwart»

There's a whisper at the window And I don't know what it is Maybe it's the sound of the wind in the azaleas Matt's away on business And he calls me on the phone But it's hard to get to sleep at night when I'm alone I...

I know the warp of a thread Of fibres and filaments silver and red But these golden stars Are blood on my hands Baleerie, baleerie baloo I cradled you all in the sun I cradle you still though the day is done And these...

So is this the best that we can do? Oh I can think of better things - can't you? Yes I can think of better things That hands can make and hearts can sing For now we deal with those for whom A life is but a carnal tomb...

You crafted and caressed her with a careful hand But the lady didn't understand And you riveted and plated her til morning But with a coil or a careless spark Or a tumble in the dark She'll leave her mark upon you...

Have you ever held something until your hands were aching? And then let it go and watched it fall and listened to it breaking? I have held back time and tide when all the world was plenty But now my hands are open wide,...

The back of the winter is broken And light lingers long by the door And the seeds of the summer have spoken In gowans that bloom on the shore CHORUS By night and day we'll sport and we'll play And delight as the dawn...

You put me back together again just when I thought I was broken forever So broken that nothing on this earth could mend me You out me back together again You out me back together again Just like a puzzle with no pieces...

I used to think I could live by the law And believe everything that my own two eyes saw But now all the certainties have come undone And it's harder to walk these days than run I was always impressed with how lassie...

I'm gonna sail right out on the Atlantic I'm gonna catch me a fish that's bigger than gigantic I'm gonna cook up a fine fish tea It will be like some kind of Galilee I'm gonna do it all some day Chorus: I'm gonna do it...

John C Clark is a really nice man He works in gas installation And he drives a gas installation van Fill it up at the local gas station And you know I never saw him with a woman before The women round here think they're...

When you're looking at life on the brim And trying to figure out if you remember how to swim You only find out if you jump right in That there's only one way, only one way When the writing on the road says slow And the...

Resolution road Who's your friend and who's your foe? How do you tell the one from the other? Who's on the inside, who's undercover? Who looks like you do? Resolution road Round and round and round we go Who makes the...

This weary Earth we walk upon She will endure when we are gone While kingdoms come and kingdoms go Rivers run and rivers flow You know I don't believe it's true That in this world there's nothing new For darling you...

Skater of the surface Where the ice is thin Without plan or point or purpose You just spin and spin and spin and spin Skater of the surface You never, never cross the line And if it's true that ignorance is bliss Then...

When your time on the mountain is over And you fall to the earth like a leaf It won't be enough these days to say sorry No, sorry won't pay for this grief For you may lay down your guilt on the altar You may nail your...

Wherever you are You shall be my star Flashing near or smouldering far I am happy when I bask in your light All I ask is that you may bask In my mind I hear the sound Of every happy fount Fresh as fresh is found...

When o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin time is near, my jo, And owsen frae the furrow'd field Return sae dowf and weary, O, Down by the burn, where birken buds Wi' dew are hangin clear, my jo, I'll meet thee...

Old as I am, older than The threads of understanding, which we weave between us Old as you are, older by far Than the contours of the love that we leave behind us Bold as I am, bolder than The pioneers who swept their...

Six rain ridden summers and he still had an eye for me He kissed me each evening and told me he'd die for me And then he ran off the road, full of whisky and irony He always meant what he said So I took to whisky so I...

Caught between the air and the windless deep (exit bass) You float like a lily flower. And you look just like you fell to earth to sleep And you're waiting for your waking hour. CHORUS And I swear to God I saw an angel...