Brown Bird

Brown Bird - By The Reins:

Lyrics:

I have not quite thrown

Enough of me away

I have tried to rip the rest of me apart

But still a little bit remains

But if you hold me too tightly by the reins

I will crumble to a powder

I will shatter and be swiftly swept away

I do still want for you to love me

I just don't know who I am

But I know that who I'm not is who I've been

And I will never be again

Please don't hold me too tightly by the reins

Or I will kick and I will buck

And I will run right out the nearest open gate

I may just graze until I'm lonesome

I might just run right back again

With my tail between my legs

And with a look that begs you baby to forgive

But if you hold me too tightly by the reins

I will crumble to a powder

I will shatter and be swiftly swept away

I do still want for you to love me

I just don't know who I am

But I know that who I'm not is who I've been

And I will never be again

Please don't hold me too tightly by the reins

Or I will kick and I will buck

And I will run right out the nearest open gate

Brown Bird - Danger & Dread (Live):

Lyrics:

Come on baby let me take your troubles away

Some mean old mama's got your head all in a horrible way

Still for all your crying and all your pain

You're just the sweetest woman that I've seen in my day

So come on pretty mama let me take your troubles away

I've heard you wake up crying from the evils lying under our bed

You say there's no use trying to protect you from the danger and dread

Though this world is made of fearsome beasts that bark and bite

We born to put these creatures through one hell of a fight

May we feast upon the flesh of any fever that befalls you tonight

Sooner sides will spread wide open 

we shall feast when darkness falls

sing until our jaws are broken

'neath the black and waters cold

Lay down your burdens don't you let them drag you into the ground

I know you're hurting but there's plenty of your pain to go around

Lord knows that everybody''s got a cross to bear

Don't see no use in trying to contrast and compare

There's always someone being slaughtered 

by a bigger stack of splinters somewhere

If one day should break in anger

Patience we can temper strong

Put our able hands to labor

We will work through what went wrong

Bon Iver

Bon Iver - Skinny Love:

Lyrics:

Come on skinny love just last the year

Pour a little salt, we were never here

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

I tell my love to wreck it all

Cut out all the ropes and let me fall

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

Right in this moment this order's tall

I told you to be patient

I told you to be fine

And I told you to be balanced

And I told you to be kind

In the morning I'll be with you

But it will be a different kind

I'll be holding all the tickets

And you'll be owning all the fines

Come on skinny love what happened here

We suckled on the hope in lite brassieres

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my

Sullen load is full, so slow on the split

And I told you to be patient

And I told you to be fine

And I told you to be balanced

And I told you to be kind

And now all your love is wasted

And who the hell was I?

I'm breaking at the bridges

And at the end of all your lines

Who will love you?

Who will fight?

Who will fall far behind?

Ooh, ooh

Bon Iver - Flume:

Lyrics:

I am my mother's only one

It's enough

I wear my garment so it shows

Now you know

Only love is all maroon

Gluey feathers on a flume

Sky is womb and she's the moon

I am my mother on the wall

With us all

I move in water, shore to shore

Nothing's more

Only love is all maroon

Lapping lakes like leery loons

Leaving rope burns, reddish ruse

Only love is all maroon

Gluey feathers on a flume

Sky is womb and she's the moon

Bon Iver - Lump Sum (Live):

Lyrics:

Sold my cold knot, a heavy stone

Sold my red horse for a venture home

To vanish on the bow

Settling slow

Fit it all, fit it in the doldrums

Or so the story goes

Color the era

Film it as historical

My mile could not pump the plumb

In my arbor 'till my ardor trumped

Every inner inertia

Lump sum

All at once rushing from the sump-pump

Or so the story goes

Balance we won't know

We will see when it gets warm

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Beirut

Beirut - Scenic World:

Lyrics:

The lights go on 

The lights go off 

When things don't feel right 

I lie down like a tired dog 

Licking his wounds in the shade 

When I feel alive 

I try to imagine a careless life 

A scenic world where the sunsets are all 

Breathtaking

Beirut - The Penalty (Live):

Lyrics:

Like an ancient day and I'm on trial

Let them seize the way, this once was an island

And I could not stay for I believed them

Left for the lights always in season

Impassable night in a crowd of homesick

Fully grown children, you'll leave the lights

Your family may not wait, Sir, keep on believing

Our parents rue the day, they find us kneeling

Let them think what they may, for they've good reason

Left for the lights always in season

Beirut - Hallelujah (Live):

Thao & Mirah

Thao & Mirah - Little Cup:

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Lyrics:

And you said you knew
How you were gonna take it
That you'd take it all
That you knew my heart was not that small
And how could we ever manage
Carts and horses could never carry

All I want to give
Not give enough
I want to give
Not give you love

I chose the strangest little cup
To drink you from and stir you up
And you were beautiful it's true
And all I ever wanted was
To be good to you

And when you see me cry
You ask me, but I think that
You already know why
I'm staring up at the sky

And you said you understood
But promises are not that good
In this improper marriage
Love and justice found miscarriage
At the only embassy
With an office for the damaged

And when you see me cry
You ask me, but I think that
You already know why
I'm staring up at the sky

Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left:

Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left (Live):

Lyrics:

Overprescribed
Under the mister
We had survived to
Turn on the History Channel
And ask our esteemed panel
Why are we alive?
And here's how they replied
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died

Stretched out on a tarmac
Six miles south of North Platte
He can't stand to look back
Sixteen tons of hazmat
It's what goes undelivered
Undelivered

It's a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
It's a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
Of the what, of the head to the left
So exercise yourselves to your bereft
'Cause it's a nervous tic motion of the head to the left of the, of the, to the

Splayed out on a bath mat
Six miles north of South Platte
He just wants his life back
What's in that paper nap sack
It's what goes undelivered
Undelivered

It's a nervous tic motion of the head to the left
A nervous tic motion of the head
Head to the left
It's a nervous tic motion of the, of the, to the
Left

It's a nervous tic motion of the head to the, of the, of the head of the head to the

Over imbibedUnder the mister
Barely alive we cover the blisters in flannel
Though the words we speak are banal
Now one of them's a lie
Now one of them's a lie
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died

The Lumineers

The Lumineers - Ho Hey:

The Lumineers - Ho Hey (Live):

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Lyrics:

I been trying to do it right
I been living a lonely life
I been sleepin' here instead
I been sleepin' in my bed
I been sleepin' in my bed

So show me family
All the blood that I will bleed
I don't know where I belong
I don't know where I went wrong
But I can write a song

I belong with you, you belong with me
You're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me
You're my

I don't think you're right for him
Think of what it might have been if we
Took a bus to Chinatown
I'd be standin' on canal, and Bowery
And she'd be standin' next to me

I belong with you, you belong with me
You're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me
You're my sweetheart

Love we need it now
Let's hope for some
Cause oh, we're bleedin' out

I belong with you, you belong with me
You're my sweetheart
I belong with you, you belong with me
You're my sweet

Tunng

Tunng - Bodies:

Tunng - Bodies (A Take Away Show):

Lyrics:

You've grown up so much since I saw you all those days ago
Still got that look about you still got those things that we know
Red gilded place in the woods and the words that were said
Black twisted branches that hid all the things that we did

You threaded wasps on to string and you gave them to me
You touched the edges of their wings and the insides of me
All of the years make a picture that's faded and bright
All of the years make us different and faded and bright

Bring back the bodies and lay them out for me
Smooth down their crisp clear white wings in the morning
Bring back the yellow and black of the bodies
Lay them out slowly and string them up gently for me

Small piles of sticks built up like temples to time in the sun
Beds of green leaves laid out where fear and O negative burn
Strange to see you in a suit but your shoes are still red
Strange to see you at the front after all that you said

Your face changed a long time ago
But you're the same underneath this sleet
That whirls around like a line between worlds
And there are birds in here singing lullabies to me
About bodies and you and me and all that we've seen
And you and all that you've seen

Bring back the bodies and open them for me
Lift out their shimmering hearts in the morning
Bring back the yellow and black of the ocean
Let me out slowly and sing to me coldly
Bring back the yellow and black of the bodies
Let me in slowly and string me up sensitively

The Wave Pictures

The Wave Pictures - Stay Hare And Take Care Of The Chickens (Live):

The Wave Pictures - Stay Hare And Take Care Of The Chickens:

Poor Man's Poison

Poor Man's Poison - Friends With The Enemy:

Poor Man's Poison - Friends With The Enemy (live):

Beirut

 Beirut - Tiny Desk Concert:

Denis Jones

Denis Jones - Clap Hands: 

Denis Jones - Elvis (Live):

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Alcoholic Faith Mission

Alcoholic Faith Mission - Escapism (Live):

Alcoholic Faith Mission - Honeydrip (Live):

Alcoholic Faith Mission - Sobriety Up And Left (Live):

Tunng

Tunng - Bullets:

Tunng - Bullets (Live):

 

Lyrics:

Green hills and enemies
These things they make us sentimental inside
Your words are gelignite
Or just another sentimental aside

We're catching bullets in our teeth
And though it's easy when you know how it's done
They split the secret up six ways before they gave it to us just before dawn
And now we don't remember
 

Our blood and guts are out
We spread our bones across the table at night
We cut our fingers off
To give ourselves those little extra insights

We're catching bullets in our teeth
And though they try hard not to say how it's done
They always do
They spill the secret out six ways
And beg for our forgiveness
Just before dawn
And now we don't remember

We're catching bullets in our teeth
It's hard to do but they're so sweet
And if they take a couple out
We try to work things out
We catching bullets with our
Heads and hearts and all the darkest parts of us
It's strange to find such light
In such endless night

So sweet to lose a friend
You leave the church and taste
The air in your lungs
Old lies and fireflies
Carve angels on your eyes
And all is undone
You whisper prayers into the dark
Up to a god in whom you've never believed
You always do
You split the secret up six ways
But it won't make it any easier to see
And now we don't remember

We're catching bullets in our teeth
Its hard to do but they're so sweet
And if they take a couple out
We try to work things out
We're catching bullets with our
Heads and hearts and all the darkest parts of us
It's strange to find such light
In such endless night
We're catching bullets in our backs
We sent the undertaker back
Into the garden in the drought
To try to work things out
We're catching bullets with the best resources that we've got
We're happy then again we're not
We shout - through the endless doubt


Na na na na na na

Syd Matters

Syd Matters - Black & White Eyes:

Syd Matters - Hi Life:

Syd Matters - To All Of You:

Syd Matters - Everything Else (Live):

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First Aid Kit

First Aid Kit - Sailor Song (Live):

First Aid Kit - Ghost Town:

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The Cave Singers

The Cave Singers - Seeds Of Night:

The Cave Singers - All Land Crabs And Divinity Ghosts (Live): 

The Cave Singers - Black Leaf:

Alcoholic Faith Mission

Alcoholic Faith Mission - Nut In Your Eye:

Alcoholic Faith Mission - Nut In Your Eye (Live):

Lyrics:

Larry and Jonas made me fall into your hands
It made me see all I could have
Feeling my arms around your back
You're big in my hands
We're floating in sheets stained with your pride

Complacent by the choices everyone is making for me
Evidently I am sinking deeper, deeper

Seryn

Seryn - So Within:

Seryn - We Will All Be Changed:

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Led To Sea

Led To Sea - Is This The Last Time:

Led To Sea - Fern Musing:

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Johnny Flynn

Johnny Flynn - The Box:

Lyrics:

Rob lived in a box by the rails

Only thing he knew, you don't fail

When you live in a box by the rails

Don't comb your hair, don't comb your tail

Sweep my mess away

Leave my body, leave my bones

Leave me whole and leave my soul

Leave me nothing, I don't need at all

Nothing, I don't need at all

He ate from the bins in the park

Stayed out with the rats after dark

Never left a trail, never made his mark

When he ate with the rats after dark

Sweep my mess away

Leave my body, leave my bones

Leave me whole and leave my soul

Leave me nothing, I don't need at all

Nothing, I don't need at all

Calling on his friends, never made him sad

Didn't want the things he never had

It only made them feel so bad

For having the things he never had

Sweep my mess away

Leave my body, leave my bones

Leave me whole and leave my soul

Leave me nothing, I don't need at all

Nothing, I don't need at all

If you stay in that box overnight

And don't get out when it gets light

There's not much lost of the secret life

That's done wrong and it's never done right

Now some more flowers grow

The corn gets eaten by a few more crows

And an old man's box is full of bones

Won't see his footprints in the stones

Sweep my mess away

Leave my body, leave my bones

Leave me whole and leave my soul

Leave me nothing, I don't need at all

Nothing, I don't need at all

Sweep my mess away

Leave my body, leave my bones

Leave me whole and leave my soul

Leave me nothing, I don't need at all

Nothing, I don't need at all

Johnny Flynn - The Water (With Laura Marling):

Lyrics:

All that I have is a river

The river is always my home

Lord, take me away 

For I just cannot stay

Or I'll sink in my skin and my bones

The water sustains me without even trying

The water can't drown me, I'm done

With my dying

Please help me build a small boat

One that'll ride on the flow

Where the river runs deep

And the larger fish creep

I'm glad of what keeps me afloat

The water sustains me without even trying

The water can't drown me, I'm done

With my dying

Now deeper the water I sail

And faster the current I'm in

That each night brings the stars

And the song in my heart 

Is a tune for the journeyman's tale

The water sustains me without even trying

The water can't drown me, I'm done

With my dying

Now the land that I knew is a dream

And the line on the distance grows faint

So wide is my river

The horizon a sliver

The artist has run out of paint

Where the blue of the sea meets the sky

And the big yellow sun leads me home

I'm everywhere now

The way is a vow 

To the wind of each breath by and by

The water sustains me without even trying

The water can't drown me, I'm done

With my dying