Summersong Lyrics

Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet A sweetheart left behind Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas That's where my true love lies Look for me when the sun-bright swa...Read Full Lyrics

When we arrive, sons and daughters We'll make our homes on the water We'll build our walls aluminum We'll fill our lives with cinnamon now These currents pull us across the border...Read Full Lyrics

And under the boughs unbowed All clothed in a snowy shroud She had no heart, so hardened All under the boughs unbowed Each feather it fell from skin 'Til threadbare, as she grew t...Read Full Lyrics

There's an island hidden in the sound Lapping currents lay your boat to ground Affix your barb and bayonet, the curlews carve their Arabesques And sorrow fills the silence all arou...Read Full Lyrics

Sing Muse with passion of the pistol Sing Muse of the warning by the whistle On a night so dark in the waning A dawn obscured by slight sky raining, oh oh Five and twenty burglars...Read Full Lyrics

Cut him up, boyYou got to cut him up, boyHe’s a wicked disgraceAnd he said it to your faceYou better cut him up, boyYou take him by the teethGet him down on his kneesWith your ha...Read Full Lyrics

And after the bombs subside And this campaign Calls it good for the night We meet in the streets Will we meet in a bar's cold light? We grip at our hands We hold just a little tig...Read Full Lyrics

So it started in your ovariesA stone, a seedlingOur bones entwinedA warning from the orderliesA bulge for bleedingThis will take it's timeSo it all ran down the telephoneAnd saw me...Read Full Lyrics

Two, three, four The Shankill butchers ride tonight You better shut your windows tight They're sharpening their cleavers and their knives And taking all their whiskey by the pint ...Read Full Lyrics