Gregory Alan Isakov

In the Black Hills,
it's so familiar now.
Familiar like NPR in the afternoons.
It's never too much, 'cause you still may never know
the salt on the si...

the tail lights burn red
they were hotter than hell
and i've been long gone couldn't you tell
the smoke in the air
couldn't hide my shame
saw it lit u...

Hey, how have you been since you let in?
The clouds through your window as it rained
I heard you say it was too far away
Was it too far away?
Me, I’ve...

This house
She’s holding secrets
I got my change behind the bed
In a coffee can,
I throw my nickels in
Just incase i have to leave
And i will go if yo...

well
Grace she's gone
she's a half-written poem

she went out for cigarettes
and never came home

and I swallowed the sun
and screamed and wailed

str...

You go ahead
There’s something I forgot
Walk slow and I’ll catch up
Let’s hear the stars do their talking
I used to love caves
Stumble out into that p...

I caught a golden wave
It left me lost at sea
I turned crazy
Wild and awake
The ocean was angry
Foaming at the mouth
Turning in the undertow
Turning i...

Monsters beneath your bed
What’s real, what’s in your head
Moon’s out, my mother’s house is empty
Come and find me now
Sweet heat lightning falls
Blue...

(Isakov/ Wagner/ Scott)

Fox runs with the lightning
Come midnight, we’ll all be dreaming
It’s the owl who owns the evening
Remember when the engine q...

Hotel bar, sinking in
Broken heart, busted strings
Lamplight eyes, telephone wires
Darkened sky, we’re almost home
I’ve been burning all my daylight r...

I woke you up with poetry and stones
the ragged and the bones
strewn around the room
I recall another hazy may
take a round in the ring
gone hungry fo...

Maria’s on the hill
She was all “side of her eyes”
A five-dollar wine as a blanket inside
Lay up the pages on a traveling bed
Watch the Blood of Chris...

This house
She's holding secrets
I got my change behind the bed
In a coffee can
I throw my nickels in
Just in case I have to leave
And I will go if yo...

all inside our Amsterdam she hides

Wateryeyed

that howling wind
she's waving hi

her other hand's in mine

oh silhouette
she's growing tall and fine...

This house
She’s holding secrets
I got my change behind the bed
In a coffee can
I throw my nickels in
Just in case i have to leave

And i will go if y...

Was it the voice I’ve known
Or your Appaloosa bones
That carried me home across the plains?
It’s like you say all the time, “World has lost its mind”
...

Did you ever find the garden, where the doves go to bathe?
Did you light up every lantern; your flame whipping against the wind?
Or did you fall back ...

There's a hurricane
 Crack in my windshield
 There's a bottle of rain
 Being kept safe from me
 Things looks the same
 On this street
 Every afternoon...

Wake up it's morning
Wake up my darling
Wake up and see for yourself
You were woven in patchwork
Clouded and hazed
In your past like a lover can be
Ho...

you take the big one
and i’ll take his brother
let’s get this over with
’cause i’m late for work
do you remember when we were young
the swing sets, th...

(Isakov/ Wagner)
One day the waves will forget the ocean
And wander their way up to the shore
One day the moon will quit being the watchman
Forget jus...

water street is just the same,
oh, honey come back to me,
you see it’s lonely and grey in the city，
but oh the sun will surely rise,
warm my clothes, ...

Dreaming up this golden grain
But I'm falling from this shack
Talking sweet to the queen
Wishing I was riding with the jacks
Walking proud and lonesom...

Remember when our songs were just like prayers.
Come down come down sweet reverence,
Unto my simple house and ring...
And ring
Ring like silver, ring ...

Before the Sun

Fifty-five mile signs
Thunder crack and lightning
While something else inside
Shines like the Fourth of July

I’ll go it on my own, I’...

down in the bardo
there was nothing to hold so we let it go
we were empty, we were hollow
shined with everything we were living for
and you see your s...

Was it the voice I've known
Or your Appaloosa bones
That carried me home
Across the plains

It's like you say all the time
The world has lost its mind...

The mist fills,
Quiet room.
San francisco
What the hell was all?
That talkin’ round,
Where is it now, sunny california?
I wake with you,
I feel your c...

Maria's stoned like a porcelain saint
Sweet ****ing
Sweet ****ing
Curls a smile when the sadness hits
Finds my face with fingertips
Have you seen her
...

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me
the room filled up with mosquitoes
they heard that my body was free
and I took the dust of a long ...