Montparnasse Lyrics

A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table A baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable Confessions from the cab, a habit that I got from dad The flurry of departure in a...Read Full Lyrics

Had a circular saw blade Where I should have had a heart I was trusted, I adored her And I tore it all apart Twin moons on a millpond From a tumbledown barn I can still taste the ...Read Full Lyrics

I'm imagining rippling fingers on keys Miming it wild on a cold stone table Picturing and wishing for home and jiggling my knees Send an urgent cable Dickhead's done a runner and ...Read Full Lyrics

I just don't trust the sun to rise When I can't see your eyes You're my reason for breathing The napkin inks the words away My numb dismay is deafening I forget to blink And I use...Read Full Lyrics

(Who am I to tell you to care less) (Wish I'd have met you, never forget) Young man with a bruised old soul One snap to bring you back Hands black with smudging the night into day...Read Full Lyrics

Across the city there's a golden chill A rare holding still As if somebody's gonna sing A dip in tempo for the castanet shoes No blues and twos As if somebody's gonna sing And in t...Read Full Lyrics

This is where This is where the bottle lands Where all the biggest questions meet With little feet stood in the sand And this is where The echoes swell to nothing on the tide And ...Read Full Lyrics

North Star Rolling round the heavens and watching me pine The whole night through When we were together the terror sublime Would turn me blue When you're in her mirror you don't ev...Read Full Lyrics