Dark So Gold

The Pines Dark So Gold Lyrics
1.Cry, Cry, Crow

In the morning, I buckle my shoes like a pilgrim
And make my way to the highway
In the silhouette of silos
Cry, cry, crow

I love you, more than you'll ever know dear
Before I was born I could hear you
Calling my name from far away
Cry, cry, crow

In the distance, all the way from Iowa
The city glows like a beating
Heart upon the table
Cry, cry, crow

In the dome-light, wherever you are going
The hourglass your holding
Is filled with falling snow
Cry, cry, crow


2.If By Morning

My bell tower's ringing but it isn't you singing
we don't know that song anymore
and winter bones breaking if it ain't shook it's shaking
this tangle of fate outside my door

Oh threadbare in peril this cold christmas carol
we jump from the bridge in our mind
it's one for the money, at two you go hungry
my blue shoes are draggin the line

Leave a lantern, on the trail
I'm not asking for much just your meadowsweet touch
If by morning you're ready to sail
don't wait for so long cause you know that I'm gone

You can lock up your treasure and take drastic measures
we march toward the grave all the same
it's a short life of trouble your church turns to rubble
and beauty has never had a name

well my head's in your branches, I squandered my chances
I've given the last I can give
this empire's falling the pace is appalling
how can a poor man stand such time and live

So leave a lantern on the trail
I'm not asking for much just your meadowsweet touch
If by morning you're ready to sail
don't wait for so long cause you know that I'm gone


3.All the While

Oh, the heart shines red and the stars shine gold
Its getting late and its so cold
All the while my heart beats
For my love through the empty streets
All the while

With a silver arrow buried in my chest
I fell asleep in the earliness
And, had the most vivid dream
I was just a sailor and I was lost at sea
All the waves crash over me
I was lost but I was free
All the while

With a broken watch around my wrist
I check the time and shake my fist
As we walk along the graveyard fence
If time aint real and time don't exist
Then why?
All the while


4.Moonrise, IA


5.Rise Up and Be Lonely

Whose woods these are I think I know
they stole them when they found the gold
well a broken little treaty holds the proof

Now it's snowblind madness on the plains
I clamor for a purer strain
well you don't need many words to speak the truth

Rise up and be lonely

Where daisies burn and kisses fade
from lack of light in heart and mind
cold hymns explode and voodoo scenes erupt in time
I make my way in leaves and roots
I'm trembling in my travelin shoes
I don't believe, but I believe I'll dust my broom

Rise up and be lonely

Stripes on my shoulders, chains on my feet
all the money in the world is a lame retreat
from the shelter behind our eyes

Look now the sun hangs like a thief
over branches leaf to leaf
and I'm out walking
under corporate criminal skies

Rise up in the morning
Rise up and be lonely


6.Be There in Bells

Late at night, watching the satellites
North Carolina and the rolling hills

Orion, draws back the arrow
Aiming at the heart of a scarecrow

Cloud to cloud, hour to hour
Dust to dust, flower to flower
I close my eyes, so I might dream
Won't you meet me,
When the Sun stands still?
And I will, be there in bells

I thought I was in love once, I don't know
I was over dressed and scared to be alone

The pain is there, for to protect
If it didn't hurt then we'd all bleed to death

Black to black, reel to reel,
Heart to heart, shield to shield
I close my eyes, so I might dream
Won't you meet me,
When the Sun stands still?
And I will, be there in bells

The Great Spirit rose over ol' St. Paul
You are forever forgiven and all

I fell asleep and woke up in the sky
There was a light so bright, I could see through my skin
All the sorrow and the cold north wind
I had to go through
I had to find you

Dollar to dollar, broke to broke,
Ash to ash, smoke to smoke
I close my eyes, so I might dream
Won't you meet me,
When the Sun stands still?
And I will, be there in bells
I will be there in bells


7.Grace Hill


8.Chimes

If you don't believe I'm leaving you can follow me to the train
I'm going where the digital dream don't roam
through the corn and through the cold to find me something I can
hold
and wander nevermore in search of home

Oh the rain is my shepherd it makes me lie with you
back before the moon fell from the sky
now it's sudden death, overtime
in the darkest corners of my mind
and I've lost the thread, I cannot tell a lie

If you leave now there still is time
to catch me falling down the line
when the train hits the chimes

Well there's peace in the valley, but there's trouble in the
hills
whatsoever comes we'll make it through
you can save the earth or save your home
but the life you save may be your own
there's nothing really left for you to prove

If you leave now there still is time
to catch me falling down the line
before the train hits the chimes


9.Dead Feathers

Ah, dead feathers, tied to a dreamcatcher
That hangs down from a midwest moon
As smoke rolls, out of the windows
Of my heart into the sky
Where falling stars disappear

It's an old, lonely city
We brush our teeth to the sound of sirens
An illusion of safety
A harpsichord on a gravel road
My heart's on fire but my hands are cold

We tremble in the bow echo

So much beauty and kindness
In the world it makes me cry
I beg of you, your Highness
Please show mercy on the tender ones
In the low and lonesome glow

We tremble in the bow echo
We lay awake in the dark so gold

We worry all the night
We hurry away the days
Through the frugalness
We go

We tremble in the bow echo
We lay awake in the dark so gold


10.Losing the Stars