My Burning Lyrics

I am a container of stories about you And I bring you up repeatedly, uninvited to Do the people around me want to keep hearing about my dead wife? Or does the room go silent w...Read Full Lyrics

Vastness and watching At the crest of night Seeing in Blue hole grows Yawning Swept above The hills roll Over the water I call low Wild Hunt To the ocean...Read Full Lyrics

I remember looking around hte hospital waiting room Full of people all absorbed in their own personal catastrophes All reading books like "Being Mortal," all with a look in their...Read Full Lyrics

[Phil Elverum and Julie Doiron] Our bones do blow away In pink light And in pink light we found each other In the spring Dripping with flowers Now in wind filled with...Read Full Lyrics

[Phil Elverum] Now I'm frantically grasping At wisps of dissipating wisdom As we disband This is the wealth I would like to leave to my daughter When she lets go of ...Read Full Lyrics

The possibility that if I stopped clapping My hands in the void I would notice that I can't hold on to things And The possibility that if I stopped using my voice I'd notice songs ...Read Full Lyrics

I was a log in the waves Last time you saw me End over end I was thrown I endlessly groaned "Hold my hand. Won't someone come surf me?" And of course no one came You stood ...Read Full Lyrics

Rocks and water and wood Not speaking to me ("Left alone to wander above") Slow and uneasy and alive ("wanderer above the sea of fog") I mean the place lives And clouds pass ...Read Full Lyrics

Watching the light change I see the place lives I've stayed here long enough Moss has started to grow But still, wind sweeping clear The brief collection assembled The silt I...Read Full Lyrics

Misunderstood And disillusioned I go on describing this place And the way it feels to live and die The “natural world” And whatever else it’s called I drive in and ou...Read Full Lyrics