A Beautiful Thing Lyrics

Tuesday at dawn, Michael's glasses washed ashore With a styrofoam box and two broken oars He'd been digging for clams in the muddy swamp weeds When he heard the salt water whisper ...Read Full Lyrics

There are birds in the darkness That douse electrical fires Flaring up in nursing homes And the bedrooms of blind men Birds you cannot see There are birds in the darkness That nes...Read Full Lyrics

Old Enoch, he lived to be Three-hundred and sixty-five When the lord came and took him Back to heaven alive I saw, I saw the light come shining Shining all around I saw the light ...Read Full Lyrics

When you walked with me away from the strip mall bar Across the highway to that little graveyard Where plastic flowers bloomed in yellow grass We sat on a broken bench, listening t...Read Full Lyrics

Dented cars make me think of you Sitting on a red leather stool Drinking with your sunglasses on In the bowling alley bar And the sound of crashing pins Behind us when we kissed T...Read Full Lyrics

Like the thorn bush twines Against the chain link fence Like the spider spins its rings between the trees And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze I am the puddles in the stree...Read Full Lyrics

I swear I heard a bird Calling high in the chestnut trees The sun was so bright That bird I couldn't see No matter where I stood I couldn't see beak or wing Just burning, blinding...Read Full Lyrics

Give me a swamp, a deep dark bog Where I can lose my way in pools of slippery mud Give me cold, cold rain, a cloud of stinging bugs Deadly nightshade, poison oak, give me the wild,...Read Full Lyrics

Darling, my darling Look at my waving antennae My barbed jaw and hard red pinchers The stripes running down my spine Darling, my darling, watch me fly up in spirals Admire the hor...Read Full Lyrics

Your fan of golden hair oiled with rose and cinnamon As your blood bloomed poppy-red across your velvet coat Your deep blue velvet coat Yes, there in Montana prairie grass the Sio...Read Full Lyrics