Fleet Foxes

charlie never let it get too hard just try sticking with the girl you got other women they would seem secure they're just as fragile as her i heard ... a new good space she found charlie in the strangest place at the back of the hotel them found blood...

I woke up one morning All my fingers rotten I woke up a dying man without a chance I came to your window Threw a stone and waited At the door a stranger stood The stranger's voice said nothing good I turned to walk the frozen ground alone All the way home Wi...

If to borrow is to take and not return I have borrowed all my lonesome life And I can't, no I can't get through The borrower's debt is the only regret of my youth And believe me it's not easy when I look back Everything I took got soon returned Just to be at...

Lie down with me my dear, Lie down. Under stormy night, Tell nobody. My brother where do you intend to go tonight? I heard that you missed your connecting flight, to the blue ridge mountains, over near Tennessee. You're ever welcome with me any time you like...

Why in the night sky are the lights hung? Why is the earth moving round the sun? Floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one Why in the night sky are the lights hung? Why is life made only for to end? Why do I do all this waiting then? Why this frighten...

Wise men say, only fools rush in But I can't help falling in love with you Shall I stay? Would it be a sin? If I can't help falling in love with you Like a river flows, surely to the sea Darling so it goes, some things are meant to be Take my hand, take my...

Past my window, out in the street Life makes short work of all I see Men take the change from beggars Tight bound in sheets Red and blue, the useless sirens scream Song of masses, passing outside All inciting the fifth of July When guns for hire open f...

When the mind won't lie When the boat won't sail When the blinding eye isn't off you yet When the words won't come When the hands won't touch When the blinding sun doesn't look like much And tied to the wrath to reside to your fate And I know you've cr...

Crown of leaves, high in the window on a cold morning Young today, old as a railroad tomorrow Days are just drops in the river to be lost always Only you, only you, you know Years ago, birds of a feather would arrive nightly Gone you know, held to another lik...

You go with your two feet bare Down through the cold lane there, to Brighton A country house, a liar and a louse live there Go with your arms held wide Happiness in your eyes, convincing And stay the night, turn out every light you see And lay them down burie...

Where you go so late said the knight on the road I'm going to meet my god said the child as he stood And he stood and he stood and it was well that he stood I'm going to meet my god said the child as he stood How will you go by land said the knight on the...

I knew you fine, sight dream of mine But I know my eyes they've often lied And I move like blood, like fire and flood Despite you Blind love couldn't win As the facts all came in But I know I'll again chase after wind What have I got if not a thought?...

In that dream I'm as old as the mountains Still is starlight reflected in fountains Children grown on the edge of the ocean Kept like jewelry kept with devotion In that dream moving slow through the morning You would come to me then without answers Lick my w...

Penniless and tired, let your hair grow long I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong Memory is a fickle siren's song I didn't understand In the gentle light as the morning nears you don't say a single word of your last two years Where you were o...

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes Unique in each way you can see And now after some thinking I'd say I'd rather be A functioning cog in some great machinery Serving something beyond me But I don't, I do...

I am all that I need And I'll be till I'm through And I'm light on my feet Good to be without you (Distant light, distant dancer) Mute at Midnight she might Look Like the answer But I'm all that I nee- So, it's true I've gone too far to find you And t...

After the band had played, you kissed my cheek And you told me to meet you there later. So I walked through the university And auditioned your new friend, the painter. I walked for awhile I walked for awhile I found the house and I walked in the door...

In the station Felt like perdition [?] I'll leave unmentioned Pacing the basement like Cassius in Rome Or in Kinshasa Just let me [?] Like [?] I can't [?] I've got my teeth in it I won't let go But I gave you no option She had no choosing And if I...

I'll shoot you dead For the father Of the coal miner's daughter Beneath the icicle tusk You and me among the flattering dusk In my haste I draw my weapon Designing your final lesson As you recede to the floor All is silent but the fluttering door Twenty-five...

How could it all fall in one day? Were we too sure of the sun? If you need to, keep time on me If you need to, keep time on me Who knows what State is in store? If they all turn, will you run? If you need to, keep time on me If you need to, keep time...

Heat, like a dead weight Still coverin' the street outside So heavy that the dogs can't hide In the hot, hot rays Out on the sidewalk It's a river where the children go Out enjoying the arctic show In the hot, hot rays In the hot, hot rays In the hot rays I...

You left me there Waiting at the bottom of the stairs With my eyes closed Holding my right hand in my left There is no time for Hesitation now You come or go Or go Rust suddenly falling beside me On a ghost of a morning Riding in sorrow to the harbor Far be...

Everyone stares when you walk in the room They stare when you go You've got so much control How can anyone say 'no' They really do, that's why you're you And why you'll win And I don't even miss you at all No no Caught him delight, he woul idly spin...

When I first came to town, they called me the roving jewel Now they've changed their tune; Call me Katie Cruel Through the woods I run Through the boggy mire Straightaway down the road Till I come to my heart's desire If I was what I would be, The...

Anna, you're lost in a shadow there Cinder and smoke hanging in the air Oh and I know you'll be Bolder than me, I was high, I was unaware God above saw, ever in my mind Blue and white irises in a line Under your nameless shame I left you in frame, and...

So guess I got old I was like trash on the sidewalk I guess I knew why Often it's hard to just sweet talk I was old news to you then Old news, old news to you then You, you were like glue Holding each of us together I slept through July While you made lines...

Meadowlark, fly your way down I hold a cornucopia and a golden crown For you to wear upon your fleecy down My meadowlark, sing to me Hummingbird, just let me dive Inside the broken ovals of your olive eyes I do believe you gave it your best try My hummingbird...

Two minds in the air Two eyes on a pair Mearcstapa On an open sea But you turn away No fall into day No wind in the night No putting slack in the line The eyes of the sea Too easy to me Mearcstapa Deaf and blind like me But the phone doesn't sin...

So now I am older than my mother and father when they had their daughter now what does that say about me Oh how could I dream of such a selfless and true love could I wash my hands of just looking out for me Oh man what I used to be Oh man oh my oh me Oh man...

The door slam loud and rose up a cloud of dust on us Footsteps follow, down through the hollow sound, torn up And you would go to Mykonos With a vision of the gentle coast And a sun to maybe dissipate Shadows of the mess you made How did animals in the...

Who stole the life from you? Who turned you so against you? Who was the thief, who shaved your teeth Accepting just virtue? Ooh And did he act alone? Were any more complicit? When he would sing, and offer the ring What older voice said, "kiss it"? W...

On the way to your brother's house in the valley, dear, By the river bridge a cradle floating beside me. In the whitest water on the banks against the stone You will lift his body from the shore and bring him home Oliver James washed in the rain no longer Oli...

Biding your time On the other ocean Falling into line In the cold and dim Wherever you run You see all you leave behind you Lies inside anyone you open On the other ocean On the other ocean On the other ocean Was he not quite As you had conceived...

Lay me down Lay me down Lay me down Lay me down Don't give in Don't give in Don't give in Don't give in Don't give in Don't give in Don't give in Don't give in Come to me Come to me Come to me Come to me Lay me down Lay me down Lay me down Lay me down Lay...

Whoa-oh-oh Come down from the mountain, you have been gone too long The spring is upon us, follow my only song Settle down with me by the fire of my young love You should come back home, back on your own now The world is alive now, in and outside I know You...

He's made of sand Not flesh and not bone He's as good as the seeds he's sown But he loves you so Like no one else you know could do Put your wedding dress on On the tip of my tongue As the back beat cracks I hit my drum I get into the car My interrogation sta...

Don't sing love songs; you'll wake my mother She's sleeping here, right by my side And in her right hand, a silver dagger She says that I can't be your bride. All men are false, says my mother They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies The very next evening,...

He was so kind, such a gentleman tied to the oceanside Lighting a match on the suitcase's latch in the fading of night Ruffle the fur of the collie 'neath the table Ran out the door through the dark Carved out his initials in the bark Then the Earth shook, t...

This morning I received air mail letter 3 from my connection overseas. I pulled the paper back, you begin your attack and it means: Of all the places I laid down my head, I think of two I regret Love isn't easy my baby you're sayin' today But tell Mr. shoema...

After all is said and done I feel the same All that I hoped would change within me stayed Like a huddled moon-lit exile on the shore Warming his hands, a thousand years ago I walk with others in the yearning to get out Claw at my skin and gnash their teeth an...

What a life I lead in the summer What a life I lead in the spring What a life I lead when the wind, it breathes What a life I lead in the spring What a life I lead when the sun breaks free As a giant torn from the clouds What a life indeed when that ancient s...

Red squirrel in the mornin', red squirrel in the evenin', red squirrel in the mornin', I'm comin' to take you home The sun rises over my head, In the mornin', with the Hold me, dear, into the night Sun, it will rise, soon enough The sun risin', dangle in the...

I was in the classroom after school, Working on the chalkboard once again. You were in your uniform, Standing by the door, When I saw you, Saw you there. You were wondering if I'd walk you home Even though I lived on the opposite side, I said sure I don't nee...

Just as the sand made everything round Just as the tar seeps up from the ground bitter dancer, ever turning so was the day that you came to town you took a room and you settled in washed off the chalk from your weathered skin daylight sleeper bloody re...

I went down among the dust and pollen to the old stone fountain in the morning after dawn underneath were all these pennies fallen from the hands of children they were there and then were gone and i wonder what became of them what became of them sunli...

[Verse 1] Light ended the night, but the song remained And I was hiding by the stair, half here Half there past the lashing rain And as the sky[e] would petal white, old innocent lies came to mind As we stood, congregated, at the firing line [Verse 2]...

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 anymore Dear...

I was following the, I was following the, I was following the, I was following the, I was following the pack, All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From fallin' in the snow And I tur...

She left a week to roam Your protector's coming home Keep your secrets with you Safe from the outside You walk along the stream Your head caught in a waking dream Your protector's coming home (coming home) As you lay to die beside me, baby On the mor...