Chimes Lyrics

I was born a ghost An apparition Filled with holes and contradiction And I fear I'm the only one So I wake early Watch the leaves quake And the first light braze the trees ...Read Full Lyrics

On the shore of the lake In the great upstate of New York Came the call of a loon Cold, cold, o'er a plume of smoke He spoke to my center He spoke of the future He sang, "You...Read Full Lyrics

At the margins of the land, I get to know your skin Where the sand dunes slope into a wild ocean Where a great plain heaps into a jagged mountain Oh, I feel your heart swell wit...Read Full Lyrics

Back to when I was born on a full moon, I nearly split my mama in two, While she held me proud I had the thought: Well, there's no one more beautiful than you. Ahhh ahhh And you're...Read Full Lyrics

One morning you wake to find You are shackled to your bed And bound and gagged Oh my, what a predicament And further, further on The day grows long And your sister marries ...Read Full Lyrics

Now I know you like I know myself I still don't know much else You race toward the future I'm slow as a kettle And we waltz on a tilted world Torn socks and all those frills ...Read Full Lyrics

When I wake, I wake by the brook To an untamed thunder And the northern flicker flash about As the soup in the sky grows thicker But I tip my cap and curtsy, and I take no offe...Read Full Lyrics

I couldn't feel the earth move In its slow dance with the cold moon As I picked my steps o'er the ridge Quiet on my leather soles I couldn't see the full sun this afternoon ...Read Full Lyrics

And the warblers sing: deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet! And the sparrows sing: deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet-deet! Through the wheels, through the ...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] Last night I dreamed we'd found a stand of trees Framing a pond and a field in between And with a hammer and a blade and our four hands Here's what we made The log...Read Full Lyrics