Colin Meloy

Here on these cliffs of Dover
So high you can't see over
Hold tight, it's just beginning
You come from parents wanton
A childhood rough and rotten
I c...

The gymnast, high above the ground,
Limbers up and falls timber down
The gymnast long has arrived
Lazy, your long sister lays
Waiting out this long li...

I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I were beside her
She's a long one, such a long one
And if you don't love me, let me go
And if...

In matching blue raincoats our shoes were our show boats we kicked around
From stairway to station we made a sensation with the gadabout crowd
And oh,...

There's a place your mother goes
When everybody else is soundly sleeping
Through the lights of Beacon Street
And if you listen, you can hear her weepi...

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you and me.
Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died" said he,
"I never died" said he.
They...