Weary Memory iron & wine

Found your mittens behind a box of pictures You would wear them before I brewed the tea That's one memory I can easily conjure Weary memory I can always see Found your rosary broken into pieces Every night

Swans and the Swimming iron & wine

Take me again, she said, thinking of him "To the pond with the swans and the swimming" Far from his room the familiar perfume How it felt to her when she was naked Lessons she learned when her memory slurs

Singers And The Endless Song iron & wine

long for the singers and the endless song When we held our words up in the mirror We told our children how to hold their tongues When we held our heads beneath the river We told them all about the iron

Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me Iron & Wine

Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me - Iron & Wine (아이언 & 와인) Fake watches in your broken hand Barely keeping time Barefoot in the city and your phone is ringing Bet you're watching all the happy kids

Flightless Bird, American Mouth Iron & Wine

I was a quick wet boy, diving too deep for coins All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair Stole me a dog-eared map and calle...

Such Great Heights Iron & Wine

I`m, thinking its a sign, That the freckles in our eyes are mirror images, and when we kiss they`re perfectly aligned. And I, have to speculate, That God himself did make us into corresponding shap...

Naked As We Came Iron & Wine

She says \"wake up, it\'s no use pretending\" I\'ll keep stealing, breathing her. Birds are leaving over autumn\'s ending One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wide open, naked as we came One w...

Joy Iron & Wine

?Deep inside the heart of this troubled mess There\'s an itty bitty boy tuggin\' hard at your hand Born bitter as a lemon but you must understand that you are bringin\' me joy I only lie when they ...

Passing Afternoon Iron & Wine

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her Wooden spoons, her children s...

Sodom, South Georgia (Album) Iron & Wine

Papa died smiling Wide as the ring of a bell Gone all star white Small as a wish in a well And Sodom, South Georgia Woke like a tree full of bees Buried in Christmas Bows and a blanket of weeds Pa...

Naked As We Came (Album Version) Iron & Wine

she says, "wake up, it's no use pretending" I'll keep stealing, breathing her birds are leaving over autumn's ending one of us will die inside these arms eyes wide open, naked as we came one w...

Sunset Soon Forgotten (Album Version) Iron & Wine

Be this sunset soon forgotten Your brothers left here shaved and crazy We've learned to hide our bottles in the well And what's worth keeping, sun still sinking Down and down Once again Down ...

The Trapeze Swinger (Album Version) Iron & Wine

Please, remember me Happily By the rosebush laughing With bruises on my chin The time when We counted every black car passing Your house beneath the hill And up until Someone caught us in the kitch...

Peng! 33 Iron & Wine

Curiosity was far greater than our fear It felt so simple, so prodigious at the same time Incredible things are happening in the world Magical things are happening in this world Across the ...

Walking Far From Home Iron & Wine

I was walking far from home Where the names were not burned along the wall Saw a building high as heaven But the door was so small, door was so small I saw rain clouds, little babies And a bridge ...

Me And Lazarus Iron & Wine

Me and Lazarus, we shovel all the ashes out? Black bare linens blowing 'round? Back and forth and up and down? oh oh woah, guess I had nowhere else to go? Me and Lazarus kept bailing on the riverbo...

Tree By The River Iron & Wine

Mary Anne, do you remember The tree by the river When we were seventeen? Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer And the mare in the pasture Pitch black and baring its teeth I recall the sun in o...

Half Moon Iron & Wine

Half Moon - Iron & Wine (아이언 & 와인) Halfway home in the hilltop trees And all our footprints in the snow And the evening glow leaving Low night noise in the wintertime I wake beside you on the floor

Rabbit Will Run Iron & Wine

Last I saw mother, she rose from a chair When they caught me I just finished combing my hair Because the rabbit will run, but a colt doesn't long? with the mare We've all learned the earth while w...

Godless Brother In Love Iron & Wine

Godless brother in love you might as well lay down that rose and fold the flag She is money and tabs that broken freedom in See her big children burning rags by the riverside You can hear them on t...

Glad Man Singing Iron & Wine

I've become a glad man singing a song About a soldier on a good and a fallen angel Naked as a fish and a high About a sad man climbed up a willow bough And the cops are on the fence around a dog in...

Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Ver.) Iron & Wine

I was a quick wet boy Diving too deep for coins All of your street light eyes Wide on my plastic toys Then when the cops closed the fair I cut my long baby hair Stole me a dog-eared map And called ...

Faded From The Winter Iron & Wine

Daddy's ghost behind you Sleeping dog beside you You're a poem of mystery You're the prayer inside me Spoken words like moonlight You're the voice that I like Needlework and seedlings In the way yo...

Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car Iron & Wine

Love was a promise made of smoke In a frozen copse of trees A bone cold and older than our bodies Slowly floating in the sea Every morning there were planes The shiny blades of pagan angels in our...

White Tooth Man Iron & Wine

Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen "I've seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel" So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch And they both felt cheated after closing the deal And th...

Lovesong Of The Buzzard Iron & Wine

In the failing light of the afternoon Lucy in the shade of the dogwood blooms Yesterday the solace of a poison fish Tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips No one is the saviour they would l...

Carousel Iron & Wine

Almost home When I missed the bottom stair You were braiding your gray hair It had grown so long Since I'd been gone And the perfect girls By the pool, they would protest The cross around their nec...

House By The Sea Iron & Wine

There is a house by the sea Two jealous sisters, they're waiting for me And one is laid on the floor And one is changing the locks on the doors And I've been buying the time on my knees And I've be...

Innocent Bones Iron & Wine

Cain got a milk-eyed mule from the auction Abel got a telephone And even the last of the blue-eyed babies know That the burning man is the color of the end of day And how every tongue that gets bit...

Wolves (Song Of The Shepherd's Dog) Iron & Wine

Wolves by the road and a bike wheel spinning on a pawn shop wall She'll wring out her colored hair like a butterfly beaten in a summer rainfall And then roll on the kitchen floor of some fucker wit...

Boy With A Coin Iron & Wine

boy with a coin he found in the weeds With bullets and pages of trade magazines Close to a car that flipped on the turn When God left the ground to circle the world A girl with a bird she found in ...

Dearest Forsaken iron & wine

To my dearest forsaken Who the earth now has taken Empty, the bottle drains no more It is true that I loved you Despite the harm that I own you Wash out the river has you boy Here on the eve of too...

Loud As Hope iron & wine

Darling behave, though your boy is gone, or so we've heardOphelia would rise if it was her song and say these words"Summer comes with its color all to take your breath awayWinter turns all the summ...

Peng! iron & wine

Curiosity was far greater than our fearIt felt so simple, so prodigious at the same timeIncredible things are happening in the worldMagical things are happening in this worldAcross the river there ...

Sacred Vision iron & wine

There's no way to temper your thirst With lasting impressions or pictures of home There's no way to grow that don't hurt She growled from the station then hung up the phone There's no sacred vision...

Friends They Are Jewels iron & wine

Dreamless sleep will fall like a deep, poisoned wellOn the steeple birds and this red-light hotelSo lay your pistol down, GrannyThe company men never came to youBut don't unknit your brow, GrannyTh...

Hickory iron & wine

He kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsillShe'll never love him but knows that her father willHer fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but herBreast never dries when he's hungryThe mone...

Waitin' For a Superman iron & wine

I asked you a questionBut I didn't need you to replyIs it getting heavy?But then I realizeIs it getting heavy?Well, I though it was already as heavy as can beIs it overwhelmingTo use a crane to cru...

Call Your Boys iron & wine

Call your boys now that the table's set and shiningNo one's seen any of them in many daysCall your boys, they shot a buzzard off a ChryslerAnd you still taste all that you swallowed before graceAnd...

Communion Cups and Someone's Coat iron & wine

Talk of yesterday andshe will show herbrothers photographedin callous clothes.Say tommorow andshe'll say come find meon a beach, and there will be no moon.But say today, and she will kiss your face...

Belated Promise Ring iron & wine

Sunday morning my Rebekahs sleeping in with me again There's a kid outside the church kickin' a can When the ceder branchs twist she turns her collar to the wind The weather can close the world wit...

God Made The Automobile iron & wine

God made the automobile To pass all the pretty girls That smoke by the side of the road Their blues lovin' boys in tow To drive until the of the day And bow to a borrowed flag Beside all the brave ...

Homeward, These Shores iron & wine

Homeward the new road meandersWashed out the old road as to what did I bringFlowers, a verse about springtimePerchance in the treeline she's awaiting for meHomeward these shoes worn to paperThin as...

Love Vigilantes iron & wine

Oh, I've just come from the land of the sunFrom a war that must be won in the name of truthWith our soldiers so brave your freedom we will saveWith our rifles and grenades and some help from GodI w...

Sinning Hands iron & wine

Midnight, and her eyesHide like kittens, new and wetMine are sinning handsOn her lying on my bedThe river still may riseWild and water take us bothMine are sinning handsTake our bodies, take our cl...

No Moon iron & wine

Black dog bit through the keeper's chainSmall and angry when the Devil cameSold my soul like a pocket knifeThere was no moon, there'll be no milk as sweetTomcat curled on a rabbit cageBrittle finge...

Serpent Charmer iron & wine

There's a woman here with a broken record playerAnd a dusty compass off to map the country's new behaviorStrange words that we hold on back into the riverBrave boys in the empty coats of menThere's...

Carried Home iron & wine

The kettle burned because I left it too longWhen we were kissing with the radio onThe cat was choking on a rattlesnake boneThe town had gathered around the soldier boyCarried homeAnd every summer t...

Kingdom of the Animals iron & wine

Jenny was goneAnd the moon bloomsAll shiningAs we dragged our panicUp and down the riverbedSweating wild and weirdIn our Sunday clothesJenny was goneThough I thought that I knew herAnd the rain cam...

Arms of a Thief iron & wine

Mr.Henry and the muscle man Gave her shoes on a night there was no room to stand And like a letter in a stolen purse She was bored of her weight, she was bored of her words The daughter of a soldie...