Big Thief

Having a bad week?
Let me touch your cheek,
I will always love you.
Having your face hit,
By the one who loves you.
Real love, real love, real love ma...

Though you let her down
You don't need to carry
What's far from here is not so scary
Though you cannot see her
You don't have to worry
She needs your ...

Oh the last time I saw Paul
I was horrible and almost let him in
And I drove in circles 'round the freight train yard
And he turned the headlights off...

Shoved in the kitchen of a city tomb
The light would flicker like a violent womb
The night was thicker than a smokey fume
Liza waited in the room
Benn...

Oh Randy, leave it up to me
I'll pour the water if you bring the tree
Nothing looks that real to me
I only see two or three colors
Whats it like to br...

She was a shark smile in a yellow van
She came around and I stole a glance
In my youth, a vampire
Evelyn shown quiet as roses sting
It came over me at...

Oh, volcanoes melting
Love is overwhelming
Letting your insides out

Blind altercation
Breaking your guard down

Leaving the familiar
Air is getting c...

He put her in
To get out
To get out
He kissed her skin
To get off
To get off
Off

You can wake up now, momma
From your protective coma
When you wake u...

Just like that, she is
I mean
We are, we are gone
For good
For closing my eye
Too soon
Missed the room
Old magpie
It just passed me through
Oh, when i...

Burn up with the water
The floods are on the plains
The planets in a rose
Who knows what they contain?
And my brain is like an orchestra
Playing on, i...

Caroline, Caroline
 I never could leave you to struggle
 Hold the line, hold the line
 I'll be there on the double
 In time, in time
 Everyone does se...

Vacant angel
Crimson light
Darkened eyelash
Darkened eye
The white light of the living room
Leaking through the crack in the door
There was never need...

Orange is the color of my love
Fragile orange wind in the garden
Fragile means that I can hear her flesh
Crying little rivers in her forearm
Fragile i...

Driving through the night
Rings of crystal, crystal light
Every gulp of the warm suburb air
Betsy's auburn, auburn hair
Oo
Oo
Drive into New York with...

It's not the energy reeling
Nor the lines in your face
Nor the clouds on the ceiling
It's not to fall on the table
Not a bed in the earth
Not a bed in...

It's not the energy reeling
Nor the lines in your face
Nor the clouds on the ceiling
It's not the phone on the table
Nor the bed in the earth
Nor the ...

You somehow let me down
Both hands and a gentle mouth
You could not take me through
New plans or tell me who
New friends, I can make some too
I know

...

Please wake up
Please wake up
Touch my skin and
Tell me where you've been
You brought me in
You brought me in
So touch my skin and
Tell me where you'v...

Forgotten eyes are the ones which we lose
Forgotten hands are the ones which we choose
To let go of but it is no less a bruise
On the collective arm k...

I've laid this island sun a thousand times
 I'm on it, but I'm going strange
 This island's chills and shell cover me
 With winded rock and skies I've...

It's not the energy reeling
Nor the lines in your face
Nor the clouds on the ceiling
It's not the phone on the table
Nor the bed in the earth
Nor the ...

Warm
 So warm
 Screaming in the field
 As I was born
 Worm
 Will you return me
 To the robin's beak?
 I'll be a bird
 Terminal
 We both know
 Let me r...

The little things I like about you
 How you say when you say what you do
 When your feeling is a little gold and blue
 When your feeling is a little s...

Name on the line
Last request
Pull the car over
To find some rest
Saying "I love you"
Need to lie here
Need to leave
Living in the debt of make believ...

Change, like the wind, like the water, like skin
 Change, like the sky, like the leaves, like a butterfly

 Would you live forever and never die
 Whil...

Been pulling through
 Since the last time I touched you
 Making due with an internet signal
 Calling for the delivery to the front door

 There is no ...

What’s it gonna take
 What’s it gonna take
 What’s it gonna take?
 To free the ce-
 lestial body

 From way up there it looks so small
 From way down ...

What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take
What’s it gonna take?
To free the ce-
lestial body
From way up there it looks so small
From way down here it...

One
 One, two, one, two

 Blue lightning was an autograph signing of the sky
 To the question that I had to ask, she only answered why
 Angelia took t...

Okay

 Change, like the wind, like the water, like skin
 Change, like the sky, like the leaves, like a butterfly
 Would you live forever, never die
 W...

It's a little bit magic
Like a river of morning geese
In the new warm mountain

I believe in you
Even when you need to
Recoil

Is kicking up into the ...

Beak is as sharp as an arrow
 Sleeps in the ivy and thistle
 Deep in the midnight a' prowling
 Mama the scream of the eagle
 Threading my heart throug...

Came to light on a very hot day
 The grass was sweating, you were sleeping in
 Cigarette on a golden ash tray
 Your golden hair lay in swollen sun ray...

A magazine, the blue sceen
 The big heron moving past the last thing
 I turn for you, turn for you, turn for you, turn for you
 In the private room, t...

Been pulling through
 Since the last time I touched you
 Making due with an internet signal
 Calling for the delivery to the front door
 There is no r...

I tried to tell you
Didn’t know how to stay
You believe she can see through
Cutting at the silent clay
A relief, beckon deep blue
Fettered in the magn...

Watching TV tired, bleeding on the bed
 The milk has just expired, all the leaves are dead
 I'm not quiet, you've been quiet, just receiving what you ...

Oh, the last time I saw Paul
I was horrible and almost let him in
And I drove in circles 'round the freight train yard
And he turned the headlights of...

It's the season
 When the leaves are dancing round like butterflies
 And it's timeless
 The clocks are going crazy telling lies
 And the sun is closin...

We beat it to death
Holding one last breath
Only one green leaf left
Do you know what you want?
I think I know what I want
Do you remember restaurants...

All night, all day
 I could go down on you
 Hear you sing your pleasure
 God is good
 Or whatever made the mouth
 To drink the treasure

 Swallow pois...

Los Angeles 3:33, nothing on the stereo
Dirty tea, you're like the Mona Lisa, smiling in the half-light
Mysteriously, but seriously
I'd follow you for...

All night, all day
 I could go down on you
 Hear you sing your pleasure
 God is good
 Or whatever made the mouth
 To drink the treasure

 Swallow pois...

How could I have known
In that moment
What we'd turn into?
I was alone in that moment
When I first met you
You reminded me of the river
With your eyes...

At night when I'm sleeping
I feel you breathing
It's subconscious
Subconscious
Only ever half home, I'm
Only ever half alone
With my subconscious mind...

Los Angeles 3:33, nothing on the stereo
Dirty tea, you're like the Mona Lisa, smiling in the half-light
Mysteriously, but seriously
I'd follow you for...

Grandmother, my mother
 Tell me 'bout the lake again
 It's been strange dancing at the bar
 Kissing in our car
 Standing in the stadium
 Knowing soon ...

I'm happy with you
Happy with you, happy with you, happy with you, happy with you
Why do I need to explain myself?
I'm happy with you
Happy with you, ...