Milkweed Lyrics

We found your name across the chapel door Carved in cursive with a table fork Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been The shaking preacher told the captain's man The ri...Read Full Lyrics

I knew you well, I know you best A baby mouth denied the breast A lazy bone, an eagle eye Circling a city that's higher than the sky And it's looking like you better do what they ...Read Full Lyrics

She says "wake up, it's no use pretending" I'll keep stealing, breathing her. Birds are leaving over autumn's ending One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wide open, naked as w...Read Full Lyrics

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her Wooden spoon...Read Full Lyrics

God, there is gold hidden deep in the ground God, there's a hangman that wants to come around How we rise when we're born Like the ravens in the corn On their wings, on our knees ...Read Full Lyrics

Curiosity far greater than the fear It felt so simple, so prodigious, at the same time Incredible things are happening in the world Magical things are happening in the world Acros...Read Full Lyrics

Time and all you gave I was the jerk who preferred the sea To tussling in the waves Tugging your skirt singing please, please, please Now I see love Tracked on the floor where you...Read Full Lyrics

There's a prison on Route 41 Home to my father, first cousin, and son And I visit every weekend Not with my body but with prayers that I send I've a reason for my absentee And no ...Read Full Lyrics

Lately she don't care for a warmer breeze Or shade around the base of the maple trees Spring was on the mountain we climbed upon Stopped to see how high and how far we'd gone I sa...Read Full Lyrics

Dust gets red, and red dust plays On the wind near Daniel's place Danny's sick and smaller boy Rhythm lingers on and on On and on, on and on Dust gets dead the sun gone down Danny...Read Full Lyrics