1.Dearest Forsaken(Album)
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 long
Where you'll think i've done wrong
Waking in fear of you no more
I'll put my trust in the savior
Fielding forces of nature
Strength of the stump i tied you boy
To my dearest forsaken
Dearest vow i have broken
Afraid of your angry hands no more
I'll put my trust in the savior
River may help me later
Sleeping my lost love for you boy
2.Morning(Album)
Hard light, take the wings of the winter
Song bird, they were strong hands that held her
Miles above ground, we can't see you now
Morning took the reins from the rider
Strong hands on the lap behind her
They tear her nightgown, we can't see you now
3.Loud As Hope(Album)
Darling behave, though your boy is gone, or so we've heard
I feel you would rise if it was a song who'd say these words
Summer comes with its color all to take your breath away
Winter turns all the summer's love to grey
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Darling behave, though the barnyard won't say where he's gone
I feel you would sing if the orchard let on what went wrong
Summer comes, yeah, as loud as hope and takes your breath away
Winter takes what the summer had to say
4.Peng !(Album)
Lyricist：Laetitia SadierTim Gane
Writer(s)：Laetitia SadierTim Gane
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 river there are all kinds of magical instruments
While we really keep on living like monkeys
Incredible things are happening in the world
Magical things are happening in this world, yeah
5.Sacred Vision(Album)
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 like her
No eye-crushing mountain or jewelry to wear
There's no granted wish I prefer
Then she to be with me, for us to be there
I'd rather to be all alone
Forgiveness is fickle when trust is a chore
It's not every sin that's atoned
I heard her speak softly then heard her no more
6.Friends They Are Jewels(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
Dreamless sleep will fall like a deep, poisoned well
On the steeple birds and this red-light hotel
So lay your pistol down, Granny
The company men never came to you
But don't unknit your brow, Granny
The mice in the yard ate the potted plants you grew
Pour your bitter tea for our sweet, liquored host
Perfect polished stones but this breeze beats you both
So lay your pistol down, Granny
The duty of men never fell to you
When you unknit your brow, Granny
Your friends, they are jewels, twice as beautiful and few
7.Hickory(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
he kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill
she'll never love him but knows that her father will
her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her
breast never dries when he's hungry
the money came and she died in her rocking chair
the window wide and the rain in her braided hair
a letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle
like a hymn to the house she was making
blind and whistling just around the corner and there's a
wind that is whispering something
strong as hell but not hickory rooted
she kissed him once cause he gave her a cigarette
and turned around but he waits like a turned down bed
and summer left like her walking with another and a
sound of a church bell ringing
the money came and he died like a butterfly
a buried star and the haze of the city lights
a gun went off and her mother dropped her baby on the
blue feathered wing - we were lucky
blind and whistling just around the corner and there's a
wind that is whispering something
strong as hell but not hickory rooted
8.Waitin' For A Superman(Album)
I asked you a question and I didn't need you to reply
Is it getting heavy？
But then I realize, is it getting heavy
Well, I thought it was already as heavy as can be
Is it overwhelming to use a crane to crush a fly？
It's a good time for Superman to lift the sun into the sky
'Cause it's getting heavy
Well, I thought it was already as heavy as can be
Tell everybody waiting for Superman
That they should try to hold on the best they can
He hasn't dropped them, forgot them or anything
It's just too heavy for a Superman to lift
Is it getting heavy？
Well, I thought it was already as heavy as can be
Tell everybody waiting for Superman
That they should try to hold on the best they can
He hasn't dropped them, forgot them or anything
It's just too heavy for a Superman to lift
9.Swans And The Swimming(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
'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
as they marvel with love at the sunset
walking away at the dark end of day
she will measure and break like a habit
oh how the rain sounds as light as a lover's word
and now and again she's afraid when the sun returns
'take me again,' she said, thinking of him
'i don't care for this careful behavior'
a brush through her hair, children kissing upstairs
keeps her up with her want for her savior
the sun on the sand, on her knees and her hands
as she begs for her fish from the water
but turn them away, she's a whip and a slave
given time she may find something better
oh how the rain sounds as loud as a lover's words
and now and again she's afraid when the sun returns
10.Call Your Boys(Album)
Call your boys now that the table's set and shining
No one's seen any of them in many days
Call your boys they shut a buzzard on a Chrysler
And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace
And you'll forgive even the time they burned the hen house
And ran from you ran to the hills with burning hands
Setting sun framed in the doorway right behind you
Several chores, surely some lessons left to tell
Setting sun was in the hills and now before you
Set your boys each with their shining silverware
They'll bury you under the wood beside the carport
They'll bury you some neon stop along the way
Radio fuzz on the fence post by the pasture
Long ago Liza and you would dance all day
Now you lay buried, the stern and sacred father
And sacred earth under the billboard in the rain
For one last toast here's to the brave who went before us
Who died in vain, died in a movie for a dream
11.Such Great Heights(Album)
Lyricist：Ben GibbardJimmy TamborelloPostal Service
Writer(s)：Ben GibbardJimmy TamborelloPostal Service
I am thinking it's 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 shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
'Come down now' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
'Come down now' but we'll stay
I've tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon the sending
And that frankly will not fly
You'll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
And this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
'Come down now' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
'Come down now' but we'll stay
12.Communion Cups And Someone's Coat(Album)
Talk of yesterday and
She will show her
Brothers photographed
In callous clothes.
Say tommorow and
She'll say come find me
On a beach, and there will no moon.
But say today, and she will kiss your face
And maybe forget.
Talk of yesterday like baragain shoe strings
She will kick the car and find her friends.
Say tommorow and then
She'll describe some old communion cups
And someone's coat.
But say today and she may look your way
And lead you home.
13.Belated Promise Ring(Album)
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 within it's hands
And my mother says Rebekah is as stubborn as the come
They both call me to with words I never knew
There's a bug inside the thimble theres a band aid on her thumb
And a pony in the river turning blue
They say time may give you more then your poor bones could ever
take
My Rebekah says she never wants a boy
To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away
And to run inside and curse the open door
I once gave to my Rebekah a belated promise ring
And she sold it to the waitress one a train
I may find her by the phone booth with a fashion magazine
She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again
They say time may give you more then your poor bones could ever
take
I think I could never love another girl
To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way
While she shines my mothers imitation pearls
Sunday evening, my Rebeka's lost a book she never read
And the moon fell into the sea
So the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flowerbed
Now they bend with all the lighting tattered trees
They say time may give you more then your poor bones could ever
take
My Rebekah said she knew I'd want a boy
A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon to float away
She would earn a pocketful to buy me more
14.God Made The Automobile(Album)
God made the automobile to pass all the pretty girls
The smoke by the side of the road, the blues lovin' boys in tow
To drive to the end of the day and bow to a borrowed flag
To ride all the brave and the blind, and men without men in mind
To pass all the things He made and then never bothered to name
And no one will tell the truth, and no one will hide it from you
Like birds around the grave
God made the automobile and I made a little boy
To pass on the blissfully young, the snake with a forked tongue
To praise on the wanting for time, and makes in the sleepless
waves
The fear of the Black and the Jew, and blood for the camera crew
And passes the things He made and then never bothered to name
And no one can tell the truth, and no one can hide it from you
Like birds around the grave
15.Homeward, These Shores(Album)
Homeward the new road meanders
Washed out the old road as to what did i bring
Flowers a verse about springtime
Perchance in the tree line she's waiting for me
Homeward these shoes worn to paper
Thin as the reason i left here so young
Homeward and what if i see her
There in the doorway i walked away from？
White house asleep on the hillside
Firm as a habit i've struggled to shed
Homeward with heaven above me
Old road behind me a door up ahead
16.Love Vigilantes(Album)
Oh, I've just come from the land of the sun
From a war that must be won in the name of truth
With our soldiers so brave your freedom we will save
With our rifles and grenades and some help from God
I want to see my family
My wife and child are waiting for me
I've got to go home
I've been so alone, you see
You just can't believe the joy I did receive
When I finally got my leave and I was going home
Oh, I flew through the sky, my convictions could not lie
For my country I would die, and I will see it soon
When I walked through the door my wife she lay upon the floor
And with tears her eyes did soar, I did not know why
Then I looked into her hand and I saw the telegram
Said that I was a brave, brave man, but that I was dead
17.Sinning Hands(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
Midnight, and her eyes
Hide like kittens, new and wet
Mine are sinning hands
On her lying on my bed
The river still may rise
Wild and water take us both
Mine are sinning hands
Take our bodies, take our clothes
Bloodless moonlight, may my lady
Give her lovely skin and bones
Midnight, and my bride
Treads in distant water now
Mine are sinning hands
And my teeth have fallen out
The river still may rise
Though it took more than it gave
Mine are sinning hands
On a broken windowpane
Bloodless moonlight, like my lady
Gave me only skin and bones
18.No Moon(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
Black dog bit through the keeper's chain
Small and angry when the Devil came
Sold my soul like a pocket knife
There was no moon, there'll be no milk as sweet
Tomcat curled on a rabbit cage
Brittle fingers in the potter's clay
Sold my soul and I laid her down
There was no moon, there'll be no milk as sweet
Blue bird laughs on a fallen tree
Sunset burns on a quiet sea
Sold my soul and they ran me down
There was no moon, there'll be no milk as sweet
19.Serpent Charmer(Album)
There's a woman here with a broken record player
And a dusty compass off to map the country's new behavior
Strange words that we hold on back into the river
Brave boys in the empty coats of men
There's a kitchen timer, distractions and reminders
That the rolly-pollies started crawling cross your family's
china
Strange words that we hold on back into the river
Dead dogs only want to live again
There's a serpent charmer, pair of shoes and wander
Speeding ticket, you're not leaving that last land of slaughter
Strange words that we hold on back into the river
Good girls come and kick you in the shin
There's a hopeful hunter with a hapless sense of wonder
And a million claw marks on the rock he hid his money under
Strange words that we hold on back into the river
And made men only want to live again
20.Carried Home(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
The kettle burned because I left it too long
When we were kissing with the radio on
The cat was choking on a rattlesnake bone
The town had gathered around the soldier boy
Carried home
And every summer there was imminent rain
The sick kids ate a bowl of red clay
The late judge teetered in a jon boat
The town had gathered around the soldier boy
Carried home
The broken window and the pretty blue sky
And cold water for my swollen black eye
We shook some money from your mother's old clothes
When all had gathered around the soldier boy
Carried home
21.Kingdom Of The Animals(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
Jenny was gone and the moon blooms all shining
As we dragged our panic up and down the riverbed
Sweating wild and weird in our sunday clothes
Jenny was gone though i thought that i knew her
And the rain came howling out of virginia
Blue tick blowing the water out her nose
Jenny and me in the front row and singing
About how heaven calls the kingdom of the animals
All and all revealed to us one day
Jenny and me on the hilltop and peeking
At all their upturned bottles jumping like a leper's jaw-hop
Teasing the brush-fire in its rage
Jenny came back and the wet road still shining
In our eyes an angel clear and coronal
Clothed in all that's prodigal and strange
Jenny came back and i thought that i heard her
Murmer something about no men in virginia
Spat on the ground like a letter tossed away.
Jenny and me in our dead truck and turning
Over just where heaven calls the kingdom of the animals
Scratching our heads where the wolves got away
Jenny and me as the moon blooms were closing
Both her wide-eyed brothers running like shepherds
Dreaming the heat of the fields all in flames
22.Arms Of A Thief(Album)
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 soldier told the fallen priest
'It's a cold, cold place in the arm's of a thief.'
And reaching out to touch the steering wheel she said
'Leave me alone but just don't leave me here, alright？
alright？
Mr.Henry and another guy
Gave her gold on a night that it fell from the sky
And like her body when the buzzard came
She was bored of her luck, she was bored of her name
The daughter of a lawyer told the fallen priest
'It's a cold, cold place in the arm's of a thief'
And dabbing at the arrow in her heel she said
'Leave me alone but just don't leave me here alright？'
Mr.Henry was a dying man
With advice in a tongue that she didn't understand.
And like the water when the sea got rough,
She was bored of the breeze, she was bored of her love.
The winner and the loser told the fallen priest,
'It's a cold,cold world in the arm's of a thief'
And holding everything he made her steal she said
'Leave me alone but just don't leave me here, alright？'
23.The Trapeze Swinger(Album)
Lyricist：Sam Beam
Writer(s)：Sam Beam
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Please remember me
Happily
By the rose bush laughing
With bruises on my chin
A time when
We counted every black car
Passing your house
Beneath the hill
And up until
Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range
A piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention
But please remember me
Fondly
I heard from someone you're still pretty
And then they went on to say
That the Pearly Gate
Has some eloquent graffiti
Like 'We'll meet again'
And 'Fuck the man'
'Tell my mother not to worry'
And angels with their great handshakes
But always done in such a hurry
And please remember me
At Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white
By midnight we'd forgotten one another
And when the morning came
I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That season left the world
And then returned
But now you're lit up by the city
So please remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower
Call and passes by
But much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour
Gleam and resonate
Just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words like 'Lost and found'
And 'Don't look down'
And 'Someone save temptation'
And please remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug burn babies
Upon the fallen trees
And fast asleep
Beside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like
And even might
Give a gift for your behavior
Of lead and chance to see
A trapeze swinger high as any savior
But please remember me
My misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds above
They're running in circles
Round the well
And where it spells
On the wall behind Saint Peter
So bright on cinder-gray
In spray paint
'Who the hell can see forever？'
And please remember me
Seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turn from me
Said the trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last
The clowns that pass
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled the circus domes
The parking lot
Had an element of danger
So please remember me
Finally
And all my uphill clawing
My dear
But if I make
The Pearly Gates
Do my best to make a drawing
Of God and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissing on a sinner
A monkey and man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swinger
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