Animal Skins Lyrics

'Lo and behold your mother is drinking again This might be the coldest winter since records began You were alone and steady with wintry calm Leading the children softly across the ...Read Full Lyrics

You are the string in my bow. Biblical Mary to Joe. The North isn't true 'til it's leading me to you. You are the way that I know. Under the weight of belief You shiver and ...Read Full Lyrics

I was lying on the floor of the playground You were chasing off a kid with a greyhound I remember thinking you're the coolest girl I know You were swinging from the seating rafter...Read Full Lyrics

It started with the moon That turned an inexpensive room into St. Peter's There's a parabolic story but it's boring And it ends how you'd expect. Forever dressing down I'm like a ...Read Full Lyrics

Like faithful oxen through the chalk, With dragging tails of history walk. Soon confuse the compass and the cross. Carefully and cursively we fill our travelling diaries with loss...Read Full Lyrics

Night descended like a blanket, on the house Where I miss you like a limb. I close the curtains, shun the working and I put your record on. I, the lonely tax collector, never had ...Read Full Lyrics

They're cutting up the bodies In the med school basement And I am only watching On an academic placement I regulate my breathing But I can't escape the feeling That I should not be...Read Full Lyrics

I waited by your bedside and Couldn't close my eyes all night I named you like a prayer It's anybody's guess how The angel of doubt came down And crept into your bed But after we...Read Full Lyrics

I used to be a king alone Like Solomon or Rehoboam And in the eaves, the Corvidae Did jealous keep my picture frames And everything did oxidate in place. But then you came, a sing...Read Full Lyrics

My family on the right hand side And your family on the left We got married in a single bed And sang shaker hymns When your war horse grandfather had sung The whole damn Song of S...Read Full Lyrics