Empire Builder Lyrics

Late when the night has swollen And the edge of the sky is bruised I'll wonder if the scene is cast By accident or by design We will leave our feather lungs, as nameless as whe...Read Full Lyrics

If these bare walls could sing They would sing us a funeral song Push their wooden words into your mouth They would not wish to be A burden to your tongue Would not wish to ca...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] Here comes the end, of the future If we're already goners Why wait any longer For something to crack open? Here comes the end, I brought no offering I lied to my co...Read Full Lyrics

Up with the sunrise you'll be staring Out through the window of the day I'll be another waking shadow Cast on the covers of your bed Give me another waking moment Shine agai...Read Full Lyrics

I remember my mother's hands Laced in prayer Frail as birds Face she carried Like a terrible, terrible ache I have never seen Such glory since I remember my father's voice ...Read Full Lyrics

My love is fierce Leaving your limbs barefoot and honey-wild Perhaps my dear I am no dove, I am no shade of blue Clear as any story-time will tell you I am not a lamb, I am a ...Read Full Lyrics

When the moon carves a trail down the pine-bearded hills And a ghost-wind hollers to the early morn And the starlings return to the old sugar mill Stealing their corn from the g...Read Full Lyrics

Now I'm staring at the Hudson, I am humming to the passing trains And I no longer miss the silence, but I miss your eyelids flickering Should we give up the hunt, become the hunt...Read Full Lyrics

Try as I may to carve my path I cannot keep myself from stumbling back to you And you'll say "Don't you ever lose you heat" "Don't you ever be caught shedding your skin too so...Read Full Lyrics

I came clean and there you went Stitching up every single seam I split You wanna heal me, wanna trace the scars Gonna light a flame for all the unsaved girls Black tie on the...Read Full Lyrics