Songs that reminded me of something I never knew…
She left a week to roam
Your protector’s coming home
Keep your secrets with you, girl
Safe from the outside worldYou walk along the stream
Your head caught in a waking dream
Your protector’s coming home
Coming homeAs you lay to die beside me, baby
On the morning that you came
Would you wait for me?
The other one would wait for meAs you lay to die beside me, baby
On the morning that you came
Would you wait for me?
The other one would wait for meYou run with the devil
You run with the devilTell your brother to be good
Tell your sister not to go
Tell your mother not to wait
Tell your father I was goodAs you lay to die beside me, baby
On the morning that you came
Would you wait for me?
The other one would wait for meWriter(s): Robin Pecknold
Album: Fleet Foxes
Released: 2008
Whenever you find home, if everyone belongs there, feeling our bodies breaking down.
Just trying to find a way out to a city so big that it is bound to keep your secrets.
Pack your seats high, saying goodbye to your close friends.
Making some promises like “I’ll see you again.”
So when will I see you again?
(New apartment complexes rising)
I know a few chords that could make you miss me.
They ring and decay in this garage every few days.
Just trying to figure out this beat.
So if you want to come back east, then maybe you can help me find it.
(Take down your pictures pack your belongings.)
If your arms are just felt then when you hold me I’ll feel held.
We’ll sink in these notes.
It never felt like this.
Tell me we belong here.
If your arms become smoke then I’ll have nothing left to hold.
We’ll dissipate with these notes.
It shouldn’t feel like this if everyone belongs here.Album: Whenever, If Ever
Released: 2013
Oh, well I just don’t know
How you could go without permission
Cause where (well?) if you’re not there
Well I just don’t care for this omissionEvery moment brings me down when you’re not around
But all I’m asking for is come back for just one daySo where did you go
And do you now know how to be happy
Cause here well it’s pretty clear
When you’re not near me I am unhappyEvery moment brings me down when you’re not around
But all I’m asking for is come back for just one day
And make it worth the while just to see your smile
That’s all I’m asking forOh I’ve come to know
You had to go without permission
Cause it was how, how I wore you down
And how I dragged you round my sole ambitionEvery moment brings me down when you’re not around
But all I’m asking for is come back for just one day
And make it worth the while just to see your smile
That’s all I’m asking for, my dearWriter(s): Caroline Martin
Album: The Virginia EP
Released: 2008
Fragile goes the lakeside
And fragile goes the moon
Endless on the riverbed
Where we left it all too soon
And I walked you many places
And thought about you in between
You were shaken in the aftermath
In a sleepless kind of sheen
Finally easing off the secrets
And moving with the days
You staggered all your visits
And there was a new warmth in your
Face And you said: something too familiar
Can sometimes be the bane
You are nameless, but a lover
And you are completely my terrain.Writer(s): Will Johnson
Album: Swan City Vampires
Released: 2015
I need them for my headaches, I need them for skin.
We need it for a night out and sometimes for a night in.
The room stinks of poppers, the bog’s full of bile.
At least I’m not shitting blood again.
I always sat it’s worst in the while.I hear we had a good time. I hear I was a riot.
I would’ve like me a lot last night, I could’ve put me to shame last night.I feel out with a lover, I fell out with my friends.
I’m still trying to work out where the weekend ends.
No solids on Sunday, we can eat in the week.
You said I was fucked – you got some fucking cheekI hear we had a good time. I hear I was a right laugh.
I really loved you a lot last night. I could’ve hugged you to death last night.Album: Philophobia
Released: 1998
Criminal
I’d bet you’re bad
See the knife in the water
Send you back to bedAll over your body
This electricity
It was all that I wanted
Now it’s killin’ meYou say you’re ready
If I’m an animal
Let’s get a room real soon
We’ll call it supernaturalAll over your body
Now say it back to me
Some call it chemical
I call it bittersweetSympathy
If your light should go unseen
And I’ll be there to share
If you don’t mind the companyAll over your
Your bastion bed
So far inside you now
I am your silhouetteYou can believe me now
This isn’t happening
You’re not the first to be stoned
You’re not the last to believeSympathy
If your light should go unseen
If you’re not ready now
You’re never going to be
All over me
All over me
If you’re not ready now
You’re never going to beWriter(s): Greg Dulli
Album: In Spades
Released: 2017
If I hold you inside, keep you there in my mind,
will you still be here when I come around?
Or will you fly like the wind, like a dream in the morning
or like the tracks in the dirt on the ground
when there’s no one left but me, I am alone
and I can’t remember anything, all I know is I was here
and then i was…Oh…
My oh my how it goes, how the endless winds they blow.
And the trees with their leaves wave hello
to all the people driving down the road.
And if I let myself sit back and stay,
my eyes will widen and I’ll be swept away…
Oh, but then the sky falls down and smacks me on my head
and I’m awoken from the dream I’ve lose myself in again.
Well I know that I was here
and then i was…Oh…Where do you go when you’re out there on your own
is it really so much better
to leave me alone in the echo of a question
that you answer with an empty stare?
And though I know that the world we’re in today
can be so over stimulating.
Can you control where you are and where you go
or are you so…Oh…
If I hold you inside, keep you there in my mind,
will you still be here when I come around?Album: The Janus Mirror
Released: 2012
I, I can’t deny
You’re the reason that I cried every night
And I don’t know why
But you never found your way out of my mind
Participating in your games is something that will never make me proud to be the one that you turned to
The push, the pulls, the ins and outs
They always left me filled with doubts, but I can’t say I didn’t love you
‘Cause that’d be a lie, and I don’t like being misled, so I won’t put that in your head that I’m the same
The tears that I cried, all the miscommunication and testing of my patience drove me insane
And now I wished I would have second guessed
The butterflies that I’d get inside my chest
Convinced myself that we were meant to beOh, why’d I let you walk all over me?
Oh, why’d I let you walk all over me?When you got a clue, of all the pain and sadness that you put me through
Point for me, ’cause evidently, you did just what I expected you to do
I let myself be vulnerable, I hold myself responsible for letting you stick pins into my heart
In retrospect, younger me was too lovesick and dumb to see that it was a disaster from the start
And now I wished I saved myself the pain, and looked from the perspective of my brain
I told myself we could work out, but it’s too late to fix that problem now
Yeah, it’s too late to think about that now
And now I wished I would have second guessed
The butterflies that I’d get inside my chest
Convinced myself that we were meant to beOh, why’d I let you walk all over me?
Oh, why’d I let you walk all over me?Released: 2012
I should have forgotten you long ago
But you’re in every song I know
Whining and pining is wrong and so
On and so forth, of course of course,
But no, you can’t have a divorceI haven’t seen you in ages
But it’s not as bleak as it seems
We still dance on whirling stages
In my Busby Berkeley dreams
The tears have stained all the pages
Of my True Romance magazines
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful
Busby Berkeley dreamsAnd now you want to leave me for good
I refuse to believe you could
You forget we’re not made of wood
Well darling you may do your worst
Because you’ll have to kill me firstDo you think it’s dangerous
To have Busby Berkeley dreams?Writer(s): Stephin Raymond Merritt
Album: 69 Love Songs
Released: 1999
If you need a friend
Don’t look to a stranger
You know in the end, I’ll always be there
But when you’re in doubt
And when you’re in danger
Take a look all around, and I’ll be thereI’m sorry, but I’m just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don’t sound the way I planned them to be
But if you wait around a while, I’ll make you fall for me
I promise, I promise you I willWhen your day is through
And so is your temper
You know what to do
I’m gonna always be there
Sometimes if I shout
It’s not what’s intended
These words just come out
With no gripe to bearI’m sorry, but I’m just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don’t sound the way I planned them to be
But if you wait around a while, I’ll make you fall for me
I promise you, I promise you I willI’m sorry, but I’m just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don’t sound the way I planned them to be
And if I had to walk the world, I’d make you fall for me
I promise you, I promiseI’m sorry, but I’m just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don’t sound the way I planned them to be
And if I had to walk the world, I’d make you fall for me
I promise you, I promise you I willWriter(s): Andrew Mann / Clive Farrington / Michael Floreale
Album: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Released: 2014
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