Future Islands

I wrestled by the sea A loneliness in me I asked myself for peace And found it at my feet Staring at the sea... All that glitters is gold Don't believe what you've been told People lie, people love, people go But beauty lies, in every soul I wrestl...

Been a long time, in a low place Surrounded by what I have made Need to get away Get away from what relates And what was done Cuz it's all over now Through the woods, I come running to loose leaf And carve my name In the lines, there's not a trace I...

This is what I know, The canopy loss of our home Is a far cry, while I'm away. Tethered to finding a rope, We walk in precarious ways. And go alone at night To Misery's bed. In Misery's bed, we stay. So far away --------------- Here in the tremble and pulse,...

I can't touch you anymore, I can't tell you how I feel, as I fall, You would walk. Heavy hearts do bury words Under promises and "anything you wants," you'll have. Like a body without warmth, Feels the blood arrest, and blackens from the cold, I'd cave. Fo...

Home isn't open It's like, when you get here The tracks by the creek bed The minnow's the body Crawdads with their heads down low Back in the tall grass Stinging my cattails oh! Looking for brother It feels like winter But it's the heart of the summer...

And you can clean around the wound but if you want it to heal it just takes time And you can go to the moon but if you want something to change you gotta change your life and take your time it just takes time it just takes time it just takes time ha...

Standing on a beach somewhere Looking for something to see As the beach rolls in, I swear It's bringing something to me Baby, one day I'll have what I want: Someone to stand next to me But until then, I'll just wait and watch As the pull rolls into me Beach...

I will walk you home and I will leave you there I'll take the books you stole And leave the heart that bared - this soul I hope you have what you need (I hope the moon is listening) I hope you have what you need (I gave my soul, my body) I hope you have what...

In parting ways And parting hearts A dress of leaves blows to the winds Take these sacrificial remnants untended Bashed to dust And trust distressed Red cheeks caved in I don’t believe anymore Don’t believe anymore Cuz all we know, is gone and cold I don’t be...

You look like you wanted home Far from god, and close to none I've been waiting for the sun To wash away those powdered eyes And i've been wanting to hear a voice But not a word from, Madeleine I've been trying To get back to you For some time Darling, I wa...

Our second step was river quiet We walked along the Rockies, stones admired Calcite greens and feather bones divided Morning’s first born and a day-glow fire Day glow fire In your upstairs room, I sit in silence No longer a guest in your bed Or in you...

We've traded places times before We were built for making love and not for war I'm screaming fire! fire! Watching from the door I'm feeling burnt clean, under your eyes Putting me out Ooh ooh, baby don't hurt no more Ooh ooh, keep from crying Ooh ooh,...

You look hurt, but it's not my fault We're wasting time, that's for the birds I feel cheated somehow I feel stifled down here No one here understands me I feel cheated somehow It's not my fault You look sad, waiting for the train The sun comes down in the rai...

You were mine when I was young Why does it take so long? When you were here, it was warm Now it's just a bitter storm Now I'm older, turning white Watching days turn into nights Now I'm older and I'm grave Tell me, what's been left to save? Pardon my...

You'll never know me, 'cause you gave that up And I was taken out with the trash Taken out with the good You're holding onto nothing, file my away With all your broken dreams 'Cause that's what you are to me Take me out, take your ring You gave to me a...

We set out to find something to hold When seeking truth the answer is the road When seeking wisdom the journey is your home Fight through the wind, fight through the rain Fight through the cold We left ourselves behind on dancing wire The loved ones we left b...

We've been here before In a gravel lot, by the back door We move the same We say the same things And the same song plays on the radio ----- Time for the show And the road was long and slow And I'm growing old I was a boy not long ago ----- What happens to yout...

Looking for something the lord would make, Meters of sleep--buried under the neck Bereave animal dreams, instinct to keep you Instance to bleed you Instinct Saturday folds, by the time I put my wishing words away The sound of an old door laughing Creaks to sig...

A part of me--you have, A part of me--you hold, Apart from me--you stand, And there's parts that you have stole. You collect them in the cupboards Like the pieces of a puzzle. And nest just like a mother, In the dampness of your sweater. And it's never put to...

When I couldn't see you for the wall What was that you said? What was that you said, before you called? And when I couldn't catch you for the fall What was that you said? What was that you said? "Nothing hurts this much" But I've seen the way That b...

She looks like the moon She says, "it's your eyes" She sees everything She knows me too well She looks like the day She says, "it's the light" Something in the way, she says, "goodbye" And she looks like the moon So close and yet, so far She says ev...

I caught you sleeping here, all wrapped in wool I caught you sleeping here, almost broke my heart I found you dreaming I'm dreaming of you always When I was just a child, a lonely boy I held onto my dreams, like they could run from me The hopes I harbor...

I got back from a long flight, You said you'd meet me there, I've been tripping off constellations and stars. I found you at home, what was our home, With another man, oh man. Been keeping you in my heart. ------------------------------- And so I whispered int...

I whisper the tongue like an old friend I cherish my time here alone I wait in the eyes of the passing nights, To help me laugh brushfires again By the swallows sleeve, i'm a new hand Cutting out the shapes that burn me I can touch the mouths of these child go...

There are the moments that we save And the dreams that fade away And sometimes they come together And we can walk through the room we made, in the winter On a bed, made of feather When our hands held the answers To life and love and nothing To life and love, a...

I'm done being brave This bitter tongue won't save -- me now Wet from the rain Looking like you Handled like a jewel Searching some odd rule To save me from the flames What the candle says... "Keep me by the bed Pet my weary head" Oh! If these walls...

From a hole in the floor -- to a fountain of youth You stepped to the door -- all your hair in your hands Wet through the shoes, and the calendar spun On the porch -- by the moon Your words trailing off like a fading balloon Today, you became real In the quie...

Ingest, where it goes, nobody sees but me So perfect and so sweet But the rest, feels incomplete Like the rabbit's foot I keep In the locket, with no key And I can't take it, I can't take this world without This world without you I can't take it, I can...

Seasons change And I've tried hard just to soften you Seasons change But I've grown tired trying to change for you Cuz I've been waiting on you I've been waiting on you Cuz I've been waiting on you I've been weighing on you As it breaks, the summer w...

I go to bite your hair Who would outweigh You turned your head so fast you broke my neck T-t-t-turned, turned me to the nightlife Look away and the day is cold Sea my eyes fall out of my head So fast they roll away T-t-t-turned me, turned me fucking inside An...

Trusted, repeated Candor, uneven – in it’s the will to find The right design The form belongs, to no one Holding truth Come see me through Come through the sea To bare And share The light inside of you Don’t cast away, don’t cast away Don’t let th...

Mine all mine Wander, away we go Over lines, I won't let go She knows why She feeds my soul She feeds my mind Sun in the morning My sun, every morning My star of the evening My moon, always beaming She loves to watch me go She hates to watch me go...

By the shattered coils of another's arms And swept inside like the rains that weep That fell away when your girlish charms Cried out to take on motherhood She waits by the windowsill All wrapped in white and puzzling What happened to the child inside Wh...

I take my licks like a man Facing forward I made my bed It wasn't yours How soon we'd forget what we shared You said you'd always be mine I nodded and smiled Tongue out of my head Is this love or the love of the chase? Is this love? Is this love or...

He sits low, in a shady grove Where the trees arc slow, in the shape of 'you know' Marble stairwells, waterfalls, egrets' heads and open arms Whistling through his pensive teeth, the scene is set to peak Like how the desert meets the reef And steals the heart-...

I can't ask you now But if I could, I'd say the same I can't be the wound you wear to sleep, always I can't watch you dream Beside a fire You made to leave But, if you let me be there, again If you let me be there, again If you let me be there, agai...

You walk in the park as the setting sun And sit as a stone till the day is done You build us a house from sticks and shrubs And huddle inside till I come home There's a saying where I come from No mistake is truly wrong As the hole in my heart is where y...

Looking back, without, not in me All I have are these sad stories Something said, to keep you laughing Deep in bed, a lover's quarry When you awoke, you whispered softly What you said, wasn't meant for me Grief, is in your wicked eyes Just like the day...

You couldn't possibly know how much you mean to me You couldn't always view inside my tarot You couldn't possibly find it in your heart to forgive me You are the savage sun and scarecrow And time goes by and you've Got a lot to learn in your life And our hea...

We’ve known each oher for a long time Though you had me from from the first I told you all my secrets, I wish I had ‘em back now, had tehm back now But what’s a man to do? (what’s a man to do) When a man can’t be true (can’t be true) And I can’t hold...

No illusions No replays Heads are watching, currents wave Bodies huddle Birthing flame I'm a watchman I'm a slave Now I'm safe Now I'm grave Now I'm safe And I walk away If my head slips beneath the sand... If my head slips beneath the sand........

A loose, and hazy time When you were not my clementine And I was not your diamond's eye Bereft, as dasies lie For our love was not lost in style You were strong, I was a child We, we're not kings here, We're not kings here We're just strangers And Love, has...

As processions fade, New hearts doubt. But you are Golden and no one questions it. But who you fake and how you sound, Asks the best of men To share your sentiment I want to be the one to help you find those years That you've been talking about. Dreaming of...

Gray eyes link these sharp dawns Bird-chested These cornered arms Half-lit, mirthless, marksman O'bending chute and charm I took your portrait from the wall And your picture at the window Sucked your lemon dry and wept Deep in the hall Who would swa...

I remember your smile, The smell of your skin, The way that you walked and left I remember our room and coming home to you I remember our room and you Look back, hold on to the last Don't let the day push out the past You gotta Look back, look back Hold on t...