'81 Lyrics

We sailed away on a winter's day With fate as malleable as clay But ships are fallible, I say And the nautical, like all things, fades and I Can recall our caravel: A little wicker...Read Full Lyrics

Sending the first scouts over Back from the place beyond the dawn Horse, bear your broken soldier Eyes frozen wide at what went on And time, in our camp, is moving As you’d anti...Read Full Lyrics

Driven through by her own sword Summer died last night, alone Even the ghosts Huddled up for warmth Autumn has come to my hometown Friendly voices, dead and gone Singing, S...Read Full Lyrics

This is the song for Baby Birch Though I will never know you And at the back of what we've done There is the knowledge of you Well I wish we could take every path Could spen...Read Full Lyrics

Feel the matress tense beneath me Like the muscle of nonsleepy Feathers flexing will defeat me And it vexes me completely And the hexes heat covertly Like a slow low-flying turkey...Read Full Lyrics

That means no Where I come from I am cold Out waiting for the day to come I chew my lips And I scratch my nose Feels so good to be a rose Oh don't, don't you life me up Like I'm t...Read Full Lyrics

I tell it as I best know how And that's the way it was told to me: I Must have once been a thief or a whore Then surely was thrown overboard Where, they say I came their way f...Read Full Lyrics

A diver is my love And I am his, if I am not deceived Who takes one breath above for every hour below the sea Who gave to me a jewel Worth twice this woman's life, but would ...Read Full Lyrics

I will pack all my pretty dresses I will box up my high-heeled shoes A sparkling ring for every finger I'll put away and hide from view Coats of boucle, jacquard and cashmere...Read Full Lyrics

Easy Easy My man and me We could rest and remain here, easily We are tested and pained by What's beyond our bed We're blessed and sustained by What is not said No one kno...Read Full Lyrics