Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Gallows:

Lyrics:

Black blood red sky

And a belly all full of fire

Why I ask why 

I don't know, I grow so tired

Of the battle of wrong and right

That's waged inside

Every time you speak your mind

We're the same damn kind 

Or don't you know

With the devil's eyes and a dagger tongue

You fill the sky above us with the sound

Of fatal words like fire flung

From a careless bow

I grow so tired

Of the battle of wrong and right

That's waged inside

Every time you speak your mind

We're the same damn kind

Or don't you know

We all walk down to the hill 

Where the gallows are swinging still

Nooses still clenched tight 

'Round the necks of 10 million ghosts

They whisper don't forget us

But don't forget to keep moving on

We're the same damn kind 

Or don't you know

Black blood red sky

And belly all full of fire

Why I ask why 

I don't know, I grow so tired

Of the battle of wrong and right 

That's waged inside

Every time you speak your mind

Brown Bird - Severed Soul:

Lyrics:

I am a child without you near
My strongest love reduced to fear
For when you're gone I'm a severed soul
My poor heart bleeds from a gaping hole

Love please don't leave me evermore
With you I see what life is for
If you should go where would I be
There'd be no joy in life for me

Lord lift me up from this cold earth
Let judgment day declare my worth
For if my love should not want me
By death alone would I be free

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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

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Thunder & Lightning:

Lyrics:

I heard the thunder and lightning
Struck by your tower today
And though the world wasn’t frightened
You sent the whole world away
And now you cower there alone in your tower of tears
Every step and every stone filled with millions of fears
Your poison blood and brittle bones
Start to clutter and crack
Beneath your hell of a home

Cut down by the cruel and the crass fold
Catch hell from the mighty and high
Ain’t nowhere left for the good to go
No truth in a world full of lies
Our unforgiving fettered foes fumbling stumble around
Gather all their greed to go back to their hole in the ground
To wash their hands of all the blood begged borrowed and stole
To keep a good man down

Shake the hands of holy ghosts
Dance along an ivory coast
Share your flesh with passing shadows
On a bed of broken hopes
Be sure to breath in deeply every bit of sin
That your lungs can hold
Welcome all your bastard actions back home

Why do we cry cry our eyes out
In them low lowly graves
Mourning all the times
We would’ve could’ve should’ve had our way
We were hard hearted heathens
To their soul saving saints
Spilling blood in the same God’s holy name
We were the heathens to their saints
Spilling blood in the same God’s holy name

Shake the hands of holy ghosts
Dance along an ivory coast
Share your flesh with passing shadows
On a bed of broken hopes
Be sure to breath in deeply every bit of sin
That your lungs can hold
Welcome all your bastard actions back home

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Down To The River:

Lyrics:

Lord I can't feed the baby, mama's sick and in bed
I've got a world full of worry running wild in my head
I spent all my money just to make ends meet
I'm begging Lord won't you send me relief
There ain't nobody in this world who'd bet a dime on anybody like me

So I went down to the river of insufferable sins
Lord I tried but the water wouldn't let me come in
Too many lives have been broken
There's too much blood on my hands
There ain't no water in this world could turn me back into an innocent man

So I made up my mind to find that palace of fire
Surely the Lord's fallen angel understands my desire
He's been defiled and defeated still he never gives in
I know he'll help me on my feet once again
Can't no soul in this whole world but Satan understand the state that I'm in

But I went down to the fires of insufferable sin
Lord I tried but the devil wouldn't let me come in
Unholy trust has been broken
He don't know on which side I stand
There ain't no room among the damned for such a broken and a penitent man

And then my good woman rises from her sickness in bed
Puts her hands on my thighs and plants a kiss on my head
Says if the water won't have ya, if the devil's too blind
I know that truly you were meant to be mine
And then she takes me by the hand and shows me how to leave my worries behind

I went down to the river of insufferable sins
Lord I tried but the water wouldn't let me come in
Too many lives have been broken
There's too much blood on my hands
Only one soul in this whole world would have me just the goddamned way that I am

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - End Of Days:

Lyrics:

Winter caps the rooftops
And shrouds the earth in silence
Skadi howls and mourns
And revels in the whiteness

My world is so small
Inside our cozy walls
So warm and so threatened by the end of days

The time will surely come
When all is blown undone
But I will still be with you my love
This deafening quiet
May grasp around my chest 

But I will pry it’s bony fingers free

Silver lines the windows
Cobwebs in the corners
Of the homes where once human minds did dwell

The earth is thrown asunder
The god’s deafening thunder
Sweeps over and crumbles all we knew

The time will sure come
When all is blown undone
But I will still be with you my love
Cold may come surround us
Death’s hand try to bind us
But I will pry his bony fingers free

The time will surely come
When all is blown undone
But I will still be with you my love
This deafening quiet
May grasp around my chest
But I will pry it’s bony fingers free

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Nothing Left:

Lyrics:

There’s nothing left of this day
There’s nothing left of this town
Our time has ceased with such sorrow
There’s no one left here to mourn
There’s nothing left of this day

Outside there cry wolves in the night
Dark with their howls all around
We’ll just lie here clothed in our sheepskin
Trying to pretend there’s no harm

It’s a cold twist confined
To the courage of a catalytic heart and mind
Over God’s cry and goat’s god’s goodbye
And I am bloodying the garment
Of a ghost inside
Making damn sure the body doesn’t die

Brown Bird

Brown Bird - Bilgewater:

Lyrics:

It don’t matter if the cold wind blows
I’m gonna wind up working in the thick of it
Sunshine through the rain and snow
There’s an oily brine bilge water baptism waiting below

That’s just the waves slamming against the topsides’ sound
Don’t let the ever rolling motion go and get you down
Don’t let it shake your steady thread cutting hand
Keep stealing ribbons from the steel and giving hell

To every halyard you can

In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I will face it all
In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I’ll embrace it all

When everyday’s like a war between the will to go on
And a wish that the world would spiral into the sun
Turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along

If the sun was always shining and our load always light
We’d be shaking like a leaf with every God given night
And we’d break under the weight of any pressure
That was ever applied

Will you be ready when the straw boss calls?
He’s got an ever loving bone to pick with one and all
Don’t let his condescension get you down
Just have the strength to know you’re wrong
And when you’re right the strength to stand your ground

In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I will face it all
In spite of all the wherewithal
To fight it all I’ll embrace it all

When everyday is like a war
You find no strength from your usual source
There’s no peace, there’s no rest
Your fortitude is feeling put to the test
When everyday is like a war between the will to go on
And a wish that the world would spiral into the sun
Turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along

If the sun was always shining and our load always light
We’d be shaking like a leaf with every God given night
And we’d break under the weight
Of any pain that ever came in this life