Lisa Hannigan

It's long gone that I carry on from December It is no matter, if you remember Mold, paper, bad wine, and too much bedside whiskey I will roll my heart up I will roll my heart up in my sleeve Now it is your line I know that I wrote it And if you tell a...

Idir ann is idir as Idir thuaidh is idir theas Idir thiar is idir thoir Idir am is idir áit Casann sí dhom Amhrán na farraige Suaimhneach nó ciúin Ag cuardú go damanta Mo ghrá Idir gaoth is idir tonn Idir tuilleadh is idir gann Casann sí dhom A...

My "Place Of Clear Water" The first hill in the world Where springs washed into The shiny grass And darkened cobbles In the bed of the lane Anahorish, soft gradient Of consonant, vowel-meadow After-image of lamps Swung through the years On winter e...

"The Queen Of Hearts" * Water came and saw me Holding back Holding back for someone Water came and saw me Holding on Holding on for someone What you see is the life I had Now I'm left here with my past Watching time as it passes slow Just to see t...

Same as always it begins Heard a knock and let it in This is just the medicine To swallow I'll be on my own awhile Smiling like a crocodile You can see for miles and miles It follow Broken as it is, this is a love I don't remember where I was Heav...

Be my husband and I'll be your wife 3x Outside you there is no place to go If you want me to I'll cook and sew 3x Outside you there is no place to go ref. ooh daddy now now love me good 3x please don't treat me so doggone mean 3x you're the meanest m...

ref. Blue moon You saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own Blue moon You knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for And then there suddenly appeared before me T...

Blurry like a railroad journey You get down, so You need the music that enrings You got someone in your hand Another in your mistiness And several in your open arms Sometime, sometime Maybe you`ll pin nothing else on me I get down sometimes And i am...

For you, I leave my light on To do its best against the storm. And you came in like the tide and I knew that we could keep each other warm. You bring crocosmia and fuschias, And I, I sing your name into the night. A king of salt and stones, your compa...

there's still a little bit of your taste in my mouth there's still a little bit of you laced with my doubt it's still a little hard to say what's going on there's still a little bit of your ghost your witness there's still a little piece of your face I haven't...

If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me If you told me all the lies I might deserve If you lay all night in the rain for me Well, I couldn't love you more Just couldn't love you more I couldn't love you more. If you loved me 'til my eyes got no more...

Green are your eyes In the morning, when you rise Don't you be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Love can be broken Though no words are spoken Don't you be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Love, don't cry I`...

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow, Or when the valley's hushed...

Hide your horses, hold your tongue Hang the rich and spare the young Who drain the spirits from the jars Hop the fences, steal the cars Run on fumes and from the north And burn for us right through the fall All the ladies call your name Brush your hair...

Hey, I heard what you said In sun and in showers, We all must be fed. All must be fed. You wear yourself so steadily, You're ready for a fight But in hell and high water It helps to be right. Helps to be right. I don't know the rules of this game,...

When the men take me to the devil tree I will be free and shining like before Papa don't tell me what I should've done She's the one who begged me " Take me home" When the wind wraps me like the reaper's hand I will swing free until they cut me down Papa don...

He came by in his funeral suit In an open hearted shade of blue Asked me what I like to do On a July evening To Bermondsey or to Shoreditch I said I don't know which is which The night a thread for him to stitch For me, the unbelieving In the end we...

Idir thuaidh is idir theas Ag cuardú go damanta 

Home so far from home, So far to go And we've only just begun And oh, every lie we told Is written in stone Every lie we wrote in our bones And hold on, there's nothing to pack We know we're not coming back Oh oh Oh oh! And Oh, every promise that we broke...

I don't know what you smoke or what countries you've been to if you speak any other languages other than your own I'd like to meet you I don't know if you drive if you love the ground beneath you I don't know if you write letters or you panic on...

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For you, we steer a house of smoke and brick and I keep it all For you, bedecked with bicycles to pick and I keep it all For you, it wouldn't do wandering all adrift so I keep it all For you, there's fire in the belly of our ship, I keep it all Call if the...

It was early in the morning, we were sitting on the stoop, there wheeled away a starling and I thought that I would too. Oh for all I knew, I was lost through and through, in my high heels and my old dress with my new keys in the wrong city. I tie the...

I know what it would take for me to be free To always be silenced everytime she spills tears I can't ever leave you baby I believe Just want to be the one who shakes down the last leaf Feel I'm hanging around only to test thread If it's strong enough to...

He went to see for a day He wanted to know what to say when he asked what he'd done in the past to someone that he loved endlessly... now she's gone, and so is he... i went to war every morning i lost my way, but now I'm following what you said in my arms......

Your heart sings like a kettle And your words, they boil away like steam. And a lie burns long while the truth bites quick, A heart is built for both it seems. You are lonely as a church, Despite the queuing out your door. I am empty as a promise, no more. Wh...

Every night of late I'm wide awake Because I feel That every last mistake That I have made Has me in pieces I smile to your face (And it is) A lie just the same (As if I) I washed it all away (And showed) My empty plate With every hour that pass...

Its been a long time Since fighting to stay up Since facing the same way At least for the day Its been a long while Feeling at ease You're rolling on your knees A Holiday *lisa singing* Yeah You And Me Play We come and we go And dealing advice And stealing sl...

Bird, you’ve so many hearts on your sleeve. One for each feather, though you never see, blue eyes blink bright lights through leaves on the trees from seeds that did grow where you sowed. You’ll never have nowhere to go. Look at this silver and gold, shook thr...

O Sleep, come for me, I will go quietly, where the roof doesn’t leak in my heart. O Sleep, come for me, I’m a boat, sprung a leak, I’ll hide and you’ll seek a new start for me. Until dawn, I’ll be too gone to care how grey the day is. The dreams that it chase...

What you at my gentle spoken friend I lack a frame to put you in When you're an ocean and a rock away I feel you in the pocket of my overcoat My fingers wrap around your words And take the shape of games we play I feed your words through my buttonholes I bri...

I was adrift and Caught in the ropes Under a pinhole sky Blowing off course Bleach me to silver Under the moon Pulling the water round And me to you I'm going home I'm going home Won't you come with me? Won't you come with me? You'll be the boat...

We lended our heavy hearts, motors with broken parts, we had a deck of cards it was a start. We’d sit out in the sun, and wait for our skin to turn, you would ask for truth, and I would look for something to burn. Oh we walked in a hallowed place back then the...

Walking round Chicago, I have smuggled you as cargo, though you are far away unknowing. By the time we get to Salt Lake I have packed you in my suitcase, ironed the creases from my own remembering She said Bird, why? We wound our way to Texas where I...

sit down and fire away, i know it's tricky when you're feeling low, when you feel like your flavour has gone the way of a pre-shelled pistachio... i know you're weighed down you're fed up with your heavy your boots laced with melancholy notion's all you own......

[Verse 1] A prayer for the dying For the waves coming in And washing the edges The edges away from within [Chorus] Your heart My heart Your heart My heart [Verse 2] A prayer for the dying Oh, the sun coming up To fill all the corners So misunde...

Please eat your greens and don’t sit close to screens, your eyes are a means to an end. And I would be sorry if, due to your hurry, you were hit by a lorry my friend. Like you always say, Safe travels, don’t die, don’t die, safe travels, don’t d...

there's one man, he's like the wishful thinking in my life, i see so and he's like the wine on the weekend... and though he is like the sea and it's right he be so if i hold tight he'll wash over me... there's one girl I like she's a smile on a monday and she...

Heading from city to sea Just you and me Our boots creaking quietly We would never be here again Watching the snow falling down Watching the city lose colour and sound And we were looking To find in the feathered sky The contour line from the summer T...

Between the here, Between the now Between the North, Between the South Between the West, Between the East Between the time, Between the place From the shell The Song of the Sea Neither quiet nor calm Searching for love again, Mo ghrá (My love) Bet...

Surface slowly at your own speed waiting for some sky. We're all laughing, we're all faking just to see you smile. She waits her turn she waits her time, And all her love it sings it shines Have your coffee, splishy splashy frozen up the stairs. Hollow bu...

Waking up today it was cold out there's something I should say but I can't get my head around the bends in your brain and your elaborate pain makes me tired as an old balloon I hold my breath like a penance paid too soon with too much eagerness to know...

[Verse 1] Tender as a loose tooth Askew at the root My love You came up swinging Every morning Through it all [Chorus] Tender is a kiss While the dancers dip and twist Under lights in the darkness We take the long way round again [Verse 2] Tend...

Someday he'll come along, The man I love And he'll be big and strong, The man I love And when he comes my way I'll do my best to make him stay He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand Then in a little while, He'll take my hand And though it seems absurd I k...

I want to swim in your current Carry me out, up and away. I want to float On every word you say. I want to be underneath your weather, Every cloud and ray of sun, I want to float In between every one. I want to sink down like a stone. You never lost...

I have lost you to sleep again. sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a venn diagram I read the time in shadows on the wall - the shards of light through the slats on your window ah ha ha ha! I ease myself from under your languid arm, fumble on my...

We, the drowned Hold our hollow hearted ground Till we swallow ourselves down Again, again We, the ashes We spend our days like matches And we burn our ships as black as The end, the end The end, the end We know not the fire in which we burn But we...

What’ll I do without you around, my words wont pun, my pennies won’t pound, oh and my frisbee flies to the ground, what’ll I do without you. What’ll I say without you to talk to, no one to serve or volley the ball to, you write the words but I miss t...