Friends They Are Jewels iron & wine

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

My Lady's House iron & wine

There is light in my lady's house And there's none but some falling rain This like a spoken word She is more than her thousand names No hands are half as gentle Or firm as they like to be Thank God you

New Mexico's No Breeze iron & wine

Miguel When a bell tower rang And the sky fell apart Heard the rain I heard your heart And what was spoken Cause nothing bends for a name Nothing wants to stay the same And nothing's broken When your friends

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

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

Upward Over The Mountain iron & wine

weekend Mother remember being so stern with that girl who was with me Mother remember the blink of an eye when I breathed through your body So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten Sons are

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.

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

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

Winter Prayers iron & wine

Well it's cold and you're bored From counting the Smart cars on 94 When you dream you're back home But the lakeside don't trust you to walk alone Hollow trees talk off hand All the neckties are toasting

Communion Cups and Someone's Coat iron & wine

Talk of yesterday like bargain 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.

Iron Jaw Population 1

Man is unfinished animal Feeding on helpless spoken word Why can't this iron jaw elate And speak with the tongues of angels Hey do you hear a word I say A simple you're ok is underrated Is there

Waitin' For a Superman iron & wine

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

Belated Promise Ring iron & wine

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

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

Peng! 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 river there

Southern Anthem iron & wine

Just like the way that you ran to wine When they made the new milk turn Jesus a friend in the better times Let your mother's Bible burn Freedom a fever you suffered through And the dog drank from your

Peace Beneath The City iron & wine

a prayer for the body buried by the interstate Mother of a soldier, a tree in a forest up in flames Black valley, peace beneath the city Where the women hear the washboard rhythm in their bosom when they

The Sea And The Rhythm iron & wine

Tonight we're the sea and the salty breeze The milk from your breast is on my lips And lovelier words from your mouth to me When salty my sweat and fingertips Our hands they seek the end of afternoons

House By The Sea Iron & Wine

blankets to bleed (on) Around the house by the sea The scent of roses and raspberry leaves And there is smoke in my clothes Too much time with just smoke in my nose And I've been making the meaning they

Sinning Hands iron & wine

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

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

Passing Afternoon (Album) 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 stir

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?

Baby Center Stage iron & wine

Mama called you baby center stage She could really run her mouth Baton Rouge called you petit ange And Birmingham could run you out Doesn’t anybody see how scared you are There was a time I was running

Free Until They Cut Me Down iron & wine

I will be free and shining like before Papa don't tell me what I should've done She's the one who begged me "Take me home" When the wind wraps me like the reaper's hand I will swing free until they

Call Your Boys iron & wine

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 shot a buzzard off a Chrysler And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace And

On Your Wings iron & wine

hangman that wants to come around How we rise when we're born like the ravens in the corn on their wings, on our knees crawling careless from the sea God, give us love in the time that we have God, there are

Innocent Bones Iron & Wine

window Abel bought a bag of weed And even the last of the brown-eyed babies see That the cartoon king has a tattoo of a bleeding heart There ain't a penthouse Christian wants the pain of the scab, but they

No Moon iron & wine

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

Grace For Saints And Ramblers iron & wine

sang grace falling out of bed for the workday week there was kissing in the cracks of the flash flood streets there were budding blossoms blaring Johnny Rotten chewed up and swallowed by the prophet they

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 like

Jezebel iron & wine

jezebel She went walking where the cedars line the road Her blouse on the ground Where the dogs were hungry, roaming Saying, wait, we swear We'll love you more and wholly Jezebel, it's we, we that you are

Evening On The Ground (Lilith's Song) iron & wine

waterside at night Hey man, tiny baby tears I will collect a million years And you can blame me Blame me, I will wear it In the empty, hollow part of my garden Garden wall of eden And the clamour as they

Teeth In The Grass iron & wine

your house When we're all brothers at last There will be food in our mouths There will be teeth in the grass And when there's nothing to want When we're all brilliant and fast When all tomorrow's are

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

Naked As We Came (Album) 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 will spread our

Naked As We Came Iron & Wine

Birds are leaving over autumn\'s ending One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wide open, naked as we came One will spread our ashes \'round the yard She says \"If I leave before you, darling

Weary Memory iron & wine

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 by the bed you'd kiss the beads Those are

Muddy Hymnal iron & wine

tavern door With wooden buttons and an apple core Playing house and telling everyone you'd drowned The begging choir told the captain's man We all assume the worst the best we can And for a round or two they

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

Swans and the Swimming iron & wine

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

Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car Iron & Wine

our father's skies Every evening I would watch her hold the pillow Tight against her hollows, her unholy child I was still a beggar shaking out my stolen coat Among the angry cemetery leaves When they

The Devil Never Sleeps iron & wine

our father's skies Every evening I would watch her hold the pillow Tight against her hollows, her unholy child I was still a beggar shaking out my stolen coat Among the angry cemetery leaves When they

Love Vigilantes iron & wine

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

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 the

Bird Stealing Bread iron & wine

Tell me baby tell me Are you still on the stoop Watching the windows close I've not seen seen you lately On the street, by the beach Or places we used to go I've a picture of you On our favorite day by

Class Holes Iron Reagan

Everyone's lazy that makes way less than you Abuse the wealth they work to produce Indignant warfare Some families fight to feed three out of five No equal pay with prices on the rise Can they survive

Resurrection Fern iron & wine

In the tender shade of the autumn leaves And the buzzard's wing And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire Our tender bellies are wound around in baling wire All the more a pair of underwater pearls

Appalachian Woman Karma To Burn

Appalachian woman A blizzard tearing screw [unverified] Of what she sees before her She'll suffer once for you Appalachian woman Shooting savages from her head Rapid eyes are burning Of the wine that drunk