Grant-Lee Phillips

Brown doves on the wire
Do they ever tire
Up in the eggshell sky
I know if it was me
Wings a' take ya far
The burden of flight is our's
Even 'thout th...

Chain Lightning
Young lions
Come thundering
A dancin' town
Chain Lightning
Come to strike you down
Brute force
Gun crazy
Come roarin'
Onto foreign gro...

Suns burn away
Starlight exploding
There will come a day
When you return to love
Love…
Souls tear away
Swallowed by oceans
Underneath the waves
You re...

Strangest thing days I feel like dirt
And then I see the diamond dust on everything
Strangest thing something plucks my nerve
And then I hear a hundre...

How far little moon
Just a rocket away
Three nights and a day is all

Little moon Little moon
Like a beacon up high
Won't ya send down a beam
It all s...

Feathers and furs nightbirds
Only come out after dark
Hear 'em all singin' nightbirds
Crying like no meadowlark
Velvet and pearls mausoleum girls
Leat...

Oh baby, don't you know we've all got hidden treasures
Do you remember such a time
Before it was a sin to call yourself a dreamer
And treasure was a t...

Tom's at the piano talkin' to a ghost
Playin' with his eyes shut tight
Here's a little song I learnt it from the wind
I heard it on the wind last nigh...

One day I'm gonna swim this lake I swear it
I'm gonna swim it end to end
I'm bound to paddle on upriver
Out by the delta where the fishin' boats come ...

The longer you live it gets harder to fake
Hard for the heart to pretend
You're older now
You're older now

It's different than back then
The longer y...

And the point of my life is what
What if it doesn't add up
And the trouble was all for naught
Chalk it to the state of the world
Revelations are soon ...

Of all the fishes in the sea
So ghostly, white, and glittering
Nobody's ever stole my heart
And took it down to the ocean dark
Nobody's ever meant tha...

High time to mobilize
The work we'll do
High time to synchronize
Gather our crew
A secret battlefield
Lies within you
War is the cost
Of fighting off ...

Hey, she's a piratey soul
Full a' vinagar and glitter
She is a song of her own
From down the wrong end of the river
Wild, like the lily-a-passion
Have...

Blow away black tornado
Blow away troubled sky
Blow away disappointment
All the worry days gone by
Leaving all the worst behind
Welcome that sun
Looki...

Come one day
When these bones give way
Gonna’ call my name
And I will depart
Come that day
I won’t be afraid
I’ll rise from the flames
Out of this ear...

Plymouth Satellite a’ flying
Got the windows down
And the wheels a’ rising
Clean up off the ground
Flood lights from the jailhouse shining
‘Cross the ...

Fortunes made and fortunes lost
Some have turned up on the stage
Others in the river wash
If these tavern wall could sing
They’d tell us all so many t...

I'm lost but I keep on walking
Sometimes it's all a man can do
It's dark but I keep on singing
Trying to find my way back home to you
My rags are worn...

High time to mobilize
The work we'll do
High time to synchronize
Gather our crew
A secret battlefield
Lies within you
War is the cost
Of fighting off ...

The wheels of progress grinding
They turn from dusk till dawn
Haven't we learnt
Hell is on earth
So few are free from want


All the love that you can...

The powerlines heavy with ivy
Sidewalks are quiet
There's no light
A marquee is bare at the movies
There's nothing to see
I missed the dumb place
But ...

It brings out the nervousness in me
This talk of the future
Too much to devour
.
Pray that we make it in one piece
But who are we fooling
A fire that ...

It brings out the nervousness in me
This talk of the future
Too much to devour
.
Pray that we make it in one piece
But who are we fooling
A fire that ...