East Of The Mountains Lyrics

Once I had a heart like a mean old hen, Kept her locked up in a chicken wire pen Cluckng at the walls, scratching at the ground, Peck at anybody who would come around Then one day...Read Full Lyrics

Long time, no sound, long years, waiting and waiting I hear it now, too loud, too strange to ignore I'll watch that road, my heart steady as a snare drum When you get here, I'm gon...Read Full Lyrics

Have you asked the wildest bird to change his song? It's the only one he knows Have you tried to keep the river from the sea? Still that river flows If not for love, what are you f...Read Full Lyrics

Look at how the twilight's fading, all the nightbirds serenading, And I'm helpless to that thin & hopeful tune, you know The lightning bugs & the whiskey make tonight a little ris...Read Full Lyrics

Here in the dark, I won't even make a spark. You're the only one who's never seen The way I can light up in shades of gold and green. I'm just a little firefly, I want to shine for...Read Full Lyrics

Babe, you always were a hurricane, The way that first you'd rage and then you'd rain. And all the calm there in your eye, just felt like a lie, it always changed. You could see it...Read Full Lyrics

Today I went flying in my favorite patch of sky I circled and I circled above the world so high And I thought to myself, what a lovely lovely thing To be up here with the clouds, t...Read Full Lyrics

I was born in the middle of an ice storm On the longest night of the year And that frozen rain on the old window pane Was the first sound I ever did hear Won't you stand beside me...Read Full Lyrics

Sleep you little soldier boy, with your ear against the wall You have held that rifle all of your life, now it's time to let it fall Sleep you little alibi, with your reasons in a...Read Full Lyrics

A little girl walked out one day and said woe is me Things just aren't the way I thought they'd be So please don't make me turn 30, don't make me turn 16 If the rest of life is any...Read Full Lyrics