Everlasting Light 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

I'm burning like an effigy in here: The summer's come to haunt me. And I know I'm not the sacrificial deer, But I wish you could've warned me Of the Phrygian Lion, With his ...Read Full Lyrics

Two young hearts will meet in the middle, And a light will flicker on, where there once was none. Where does love come from? The bodies in the firmament are spinning like a plate;...Read Full Lyrics

You've made your decision Now get up and leave The familiar sting of the woodcutter's swing to the tree I'll fall in the forest To elbows and knees And it won't make a sound Since...Read Full Lyrics