First Aid Kit

I fell in love with you Long before I knew What it meant to give everything up I was a rolling stone Rolling my way along Till you came And made sense out of everything But you couldn't wait I couldn't promise you anything If it was all a mistake T...

The window opens I hear the toddling waves I think about the soldiers, I think about the interstates I would like to leave it all just for a week or two Maybe I'd see it in clarity, whatever I would see It's all so confusing, I don't know where I stand I...

In the morning on the train You sit and stare out at the rain Or bury yourself in your books Don't look at no strangers No, don't give them any looks Why you ask yourself, why you're so afraid Why you hesitate when someone asks your name They'll come t...

Rose after rose of passenger place Headed out again, running all in vain Motel blues, only bad news I'm never looking for you You'll find me all the same I lay awake at night envisioning A trace from the past This heavy heart of mine, it never fails...

Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong? You're enchained by your own sorrow In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow How I hate to see you like this There is no way you can deny it I can see that you're oh so sad, so quiet Chiquitita, tell me the truth I'm a shou...

There's something about you That I'm never going to find out I want to live that life again I want to live that life again The way that you say things So they sound so right I want to cross oceans I want to cross oceans But everything I say I keep in...

Will you look at me? Take a good look at me and tell me who It is that I am. This old mirror it is broken, There's too much drift in the dam. It's not the world that's spinning as me I go from nowhere to nowhere searching for the key. There's nothing n...

Well, a goodbye never seems finished Just like these songs that I write They hang a love like stars in the night But there's nothing there but the illusion of a light And you, you could've been mine Your mother, she's an actress And we're all putting on...

Oh the bitter winds are coming in and I’m already missing the summer Stockholm's cold but I’ve been told I was born to endure this kind of weather When it’s you I find like a ghost in my mind I'm defeated and i gladly wear the crown Chorus: I’ll...

I could've sworn I saw fireworks From your house last night As the lights flickered and they failed I had it all figured out Why do I do this to myself every time? I know the way it ends before it's even begun I am the only one at the finish line I to...

Now, I see winter's dawn The wind turns traitor cold Seems long since summer time And the stories that were told We spoke of dreams that came to us When we were young But as the morning rose We spoke with forked tongues My love is a fleeting one My...

All of these ghost towns I keep travelling through All of these traffic signs and lonesome bars blind the view I swear I can be better I could be more to you But there are things that line my path That I just had to do If you've got visions of the past...

So you ask for my opinion well what is there to say To be honest and just foolish won’t make you want to stay You’ve got to go on and get moving and I can’t do that for you Got so many plans and so much you want to do Love is tough, time is rough On me...

You've spent a year staring into a mirror Another one trying to figure out what you saw Paid so much attention to what you're not You have no idea who you are But heaven knows, knows That you're lying As far as heaven goes, heaven goes I just stopped t...

I wish I could believe in something bigger More than these trees, these winds, these oceans I wish I could believe what they tell me I saw, I saw, I saw my brother pack his bags and leave We made our goodbyes and now he is settled down in the city Where...

So here we go again I know how this one ends It's a phone call from someplace far away You say you've found yourself Oh, in someone else And she makes you forget about the rain Her eyes are a golden hue And everything you knew Slips away at the hem of...

It's me, it's me, you've come to take My duality awakes By midnight time I could not see, If I were you or you were me We play the game with skillful hands And so I asked for your demands Give me your love, give me your thumb And he traced us back to w...

I met up with the king He confessed his body was burning I met up with the king His body had begun to rot And he said "don't think less of me I'm still the same man I used to be" But no one believed him No one believed him I once knew a pretty girl...

In the hearts of men In the arms of mothers In the parts we play to convince others We know what we're doing We're doing it right May have written books on the subject But then you may still be surprised by your tone over the phone to your sister whil...

In the morning On your journey to the sea In the mountains Your shadows beside me You crossed the pasture land And threw your wedding band Into the great deep Where you'd rest to sleep My dear In the oceans where you lay Where you've made your grav...

Lately I've been thinking 'bout the past How there is no holding back No point in wasting sorrow On things that won't be here tomorrow But you and I, well, we don't need to speak It's the secret that we keep How did you and I decide Just say when and we...

I see the animals run past me You know me better than the wind Let me open the door for you You might see the sun Your little mama and your papa They'll sing lullabies for you And the seals are singing jagadamba Coconut trees are swinging jagadamba T...

You go with feet bare in the snow You raise up your head to the dead You seek of such magical things And nobody knows where you've been In the light the growing light You know it isn't hard to fight The demons you left behind The demons you left behin...

At ten in the morning I was laughing at something At the airport terminal At nine in the evening I was sitting crying to you over the phone Well passing the border from a state to another Filled with people whom I couldn't help to relate to And we stopp...

Birds are leaving over here I saw them sail away They looked just like saints Little one I heard myself whisper your name I was asleep in a dream Then you woke me up Little sun The way you look at me know These lights that used to shine I've been b...

Never thought that I was weak Always thought I could get hurt pretty bad Still get up on my own two feet I always believed that I was free That I had some sense of integrity That would rise above whatever tried to change me But honey, now I won't wait...

I don't want to wait anymore I'm tired of looking for answers Take me some place where there's music and there's laughter I don't know if I'm scared of dying but I'm scared of living too fast, too slow Regret, remorse, hold on, oh no I've got to go There’s...

What comes after this? A momentary bliss Oh I need you more than ever now And here we are somehow The world shines gold and new See it all in you Oh I need you more than ever now The night breaks through somehow Will I know what this all means? Wh...

Well it's a new year, with it comes more than new fears. Met a young man who was in tears, he asked me, "What induces us to stay here?" I said, "I don't know much and I'm not lying, But I think you just have to keep on trying." And I know I am naive, but...

Each and every breath we take A step towards death and the moon is pale And we might have seen something But we ain't seen nothing yet And I may have dreamt it Or it may have happened When I stood right here Waiting for a sign For me to walk away...

Let's not spill the truth It's easier being alone You're a shadow of the old And I want something new You've quit dreaming again I can see it now clear But I'll wake up every morning With the big black and the blue Let's take this for what it is You...

Is it your fear of losing That makes you go further What makes me wonder friend Is how you get away with your lies 'Cause maybe you have noticed That I appreciate your company And every time you have to go I regret I didn't let you know I could love yo...

[Verse 1] Honey, now that your shackles are gone And you're out there on your own Won't you let me know If things get hard Honey, now your shackle's been lifted You're a sweet young thing and you're oh so gifted Will you let me know If things turn bad...

You told me once I have a rebel heart I don't know if that's true But I believe you saw something in me that lives inside you too Now all I hear is the wind There's a storm coming through Did I misplace or forsake my love Now that I gave it to you? I...

Today, I climb the highest mountain I have ever climbed And I turn, to look at ruins I had left behind And you, where were you so far removed from any truth I lost you, didn't I? First I think I lost myself Children Then and forever locked in a memory...

With the first light and the little fragile moon I was out on the porch now I'm ready for doom And it's funny how it all came to be The way you so plainly chose to stare at me And the afternoon embraces you like a million worried hands And I want to look...

I am in love and I am lost But I'd rather be Broken than empty Oh, I'd rather be Shattered than hollow Oh, I'd rather be By your side Now I can't believe that it's been five years Since we both stood here, looking out at this city With minds so bold...

The sun shone high those few summer days Left us in a soft, wide-eyed haze It shone like gold It shone like gold But just as the moon it shines straight So dawn goes down today No gold can stay No gold can stay What if our hard work ends in despair?...

Another buisness trip Another reason to stay away You're coming home on monday, smelling Tangerine They say that I should leave you Yeah, go and find someone new Who doesn't love a girl that smells like Tangerine I'm not going to beg just say please, p...

Don't place your bets on me I'm tired and I'm only With nothing to offer you Nothing to offer you The pavement stares gray and cold Our lives are a story told Coming to an ending It's coming to an ending How could I turn around? Face the sound of th...

Now the pale morning sings of forgotten things She plays a tune for those who wish to overlook The fact that they've been blindly deceived By those who preach and pray and teach But she falls short and the night explodes in laughter But don't you co...

[Verse 1] So you come on home, walk through the door. She's in the kitchen searching through the drawers. So you stop and watch her and ask what she's looking for. She says she's not sure. And it gets late and you turn off the lights. Her body so close to...

Wanderers this morning came by Where did they go Graceful in the morning light To banner fair To follow you softly In the cold mountain air Through the forest Down to your grave Where the birds wait And the tall grasses wave They do not know you an...

And you said, "Don't give me nothing You don't want to lose" I said, "Darling, I'll give you everything I got If I want them to choose" Then I got on a plane and flew Far away from you Though unwillingly I left And it was so, so hard to do Th...

I wrote you a letter To make myself feel better To redeem some part of me I thought I had lost And we were a lost cause Long before we fell apart 'Cause honey, I was too eager And you were too smart And I look for you In this empty room You're a ph...

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four, He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen, Been a soldier for a thousand years. He's a Christian, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, A Buddhist, and a Muslim, and a Jew...

I could move to a small town And become a waitress Say my name was stacy And I was figuring things out See, my baby, he left me And I don't feel like staying here tonight I remember sleepless nights I remember chicago I remember the music From the d...

As the sun comes up, as the moon goes down These heavy notions creep around It makes me think, long ago I was brought into this life a little lamb A little lamb Courageous, stumbling Fearless was my middle name. But somewhere there I lost my way Everyo...

On our last trip to the coast We watched the boats sail the sea "How effortlessly they float" You turned and said to me And sedately I sat there In my quiet mist of rage How I wanted to tell you But I was hushed by my shame So when the waves come rol...

When I grow up, I want to be a forester Run through the moss on high heels That’s what I’ll do, throwing out boomerang Waiting for it to come back to me When I grow up, I want to live near the sea Crab claws and bottles of rum That’s what i’ll have star...

And the wills of the river Leads you here Where the wind it is yielding And the light it is clear To rest upon forever Or to live for one more day No I won't restrain the morning I'll get ready for this spring Oh see them planets shining To the sout...

Well you drove off in the summer rain I waved to you like a sleeping dream Told me to stay callous if someone bothered me "The Eiffel Tower, the marching band But I'm sure you wouldn't understand" I just hope you don't stay gone Don't leave this world t...

Wolf mother, where you been? You look so worn, so thin You're a taker, devil's maker Let me hear you sing, hey ya hey ya Wolf father, at the door You don't smile anymore You're a drifter, shapeshifter Let me see you run, hey ya hey ya Holy light, oh,...

I am so sick and tired of this world All these women with their dreams shattered From some man's sweaty, desperate touch God damn it, I've had enough When did you come to think refusal was sexy? Can't you see the tears in her eyes? How did you ever think...

Yeah you cooked his dinners You raised his children Still he's not satisfied He says "I'd rather switch with you You don't know how hard it is To work from 9 to 5" But he speaks with his eyes closed And even though you're not all alone He's never ther...