J. Tillman

Oh happy days Though I'd rather not Send you off this way Off this way But you can't wait You can't let your fingers Grace with mine When they're tied up When they're tied up With twine I bought a house Bought a storefront in East Jackson Though...

Something broke through the brindled soil Rattling the grass Spittin' like coal My spade came down across his spine a terrible fear flew across his eyes I said we both have lives that we are owed You can own an acre, but not what it grows I gave no hee...

I jumped out my first floor window Before I booked it for Monument Park I made it as far as Evans and Falls And I heard you call "Joshua, it's not my fault, The devil took sway of my heart" I couldn't believe the next thing I saw She was outside in only...

despite the rain you went out of your way "no one should be alone on a day like this" you said to me while my friend slept in and the last day of my lie sure felt like the last day of my life how much mystery does one man need, and how much would I tr...

one day I will return to my home to my mother's arms one day I'll board a plane and fly away from a life I made one day I will return from a life of sin that I have learned one day I'll understand how to love with broken hands (ooh..) one...

Hard as nails North country There's a girl I know Nursing the infantry Like babes Like babes If I get to the borderline They lay me down The stable boy's nigh And a spray of violet strewn across my sides If I get to the borderline If I get to the b...

James had cured the wrath Of a jealous woman Not long after that Spending all his weekends Trying to relearn How a young man yearns after a noose Poor, poor James Most nights he has dreams All his teeth are missing Wakes up in a sweat Simpleton heart racing H...

"there's only one place I've been besides here, besides here if that's what you want to hear" said the cat-scratch knees to the pulled-back hair... why don't we go out there, why don't we go out there now? why don't we go out there, why don't we go ou...

ribbons of glass hang along the mountain pass no one that young should feel the way a spring bird does white sheets bed down before our rakes touch the ground we can't rest, we don't lie in the gaze of hindsight 

There is no good in me I possess a taste for blood I have numbered mankind's days I have watched the father spare the ram And throw his son upon the flames There is no good in me I possess a holy fear I'm silent in the jealous tongue I have rendered f...

under the sun under the sun under the sun under the sun in your own time in your own time in your own time (refrain) this too shall pass this too shall pass this too shall pass (refrain) under the sun oh... 

visions, visions of a troubled mind flicker once past my waking sight tethered, backlit by sleight of hand left to reckon the evening till your father lets me in rattle your gates open your blinds abandon your glory mother and child wicker and wire...

When I light your darkened door When I light your darkened door When I light your darkened door Will you curse the day? When your name breaks on my lips When your name breaks on my lips When your name breaks on my lips Will you know the sound? There...