ϟ “Mountain Sound” Of Monsters and Men
I heard them calling in the distance
So I packed my things and ran
Far away from all the trouble
I had caused with my two hands
Alone we travelled on
With nothing but a shadow
We fled, far away
[Chorus]
Hold your horses now
(Sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods we ran
(Deep into the mountain sound)
Hold your horses now
(Sleep until the sun goes down)
Through the woods we ran
Some had scars and some had scratches
It made me wonder about their past
And as I looked around
I began to notice
That we were nothing like the rest
[Chorus]
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
We sleep until the sun goes down
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh
We sleep until the sun goes down
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
We sleep until the sun goes down
[Chorus x2]
La la la, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
La la la, we sleep until the sun goes down
La la la, whoa-oh, whoa-oh
La la la, we sleep until the sun goes
ϟ “One By One” The Black Seeds
Summon everything you’ve got
All your forces under the sun
Put the corn up into the sky
I’ll take you one by one by one
Come on and take me on (x4)
Your words are life drawn with stones
Skipping across my skin
Take a warm look at what has gone before
There’s no way you will ever win
Come on and take me on (x4)
Cause when the war is over,
the fight is done.
Well I’ll be lying in the sun
Yeah when the war is over,
the fight is done.
Well I’ll be lying in the sun
(Instrumental)
The sun’s the only one who sleeps
I can hear everything you say
There’s a small piece of earth between you and me
We can play fight or we can play
Come on and take me on (x4)
Cause when the war is over,
the fight is done.
Well I’ll be lying in the sun
Yeah when the war is over,
the fight is done.
Well I’ll be lying in the sun
When the war is over,
the fight is done.
Well I’ll be lying in the sun (x2)
Yeah when the war is over,
the fight is done.
We’ll be lying in the sun
ϟ “I Have Never Loved Someone” My Brightest Diamond
I have never loved someone the way I love you
I have never seen a smile like yours
And if you grow up to be king, or clown, or pauper
I will say you are my favorite one in town
I have never held a hand so soft and sacred
When I see you laugh, I know heaven’s key
And when I grow to be a poppy in the graveyard
I will send you all my love upon the breeze
And if the breeze won’t blow your way, I will be the sun
And if the sun won’t shine your way, I will be the rain
And if the rain won’t wash away all your aches and pains
I will find some other way to tell you you’re okay
You’re okay
You’re okay
You’re okay
You’re okay
You’re okay
You’re okay
You’re okay
ϟ “Flightless Bird American Mouth” Iron & Wine
I was a quick-wit 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 for you everywhere
Have I found you?
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill looming
Now I’m a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain stream
Have I found you?
Flightless bird, grounded, bleeding
Or lost you?
American mouth
Big pill, stuck going down
ϟ “Old Friends, Bookends” Simon & Garfunkel
Old Friends
Old Friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
Newspaper blowin’ through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends
Old Friends
Winter companions the old men
Lost in their overcoats
Waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust
On the shoulders of the old friends
Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be seventy…
Old Friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear
(Musical Interlude)
A time it was
It was a time
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago it must be
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They’re all that’s left you