Marissa Nadler

1923, he sent a letter and it reached me Some things never change, be it a river or be it your name I call to you from another century To see it, the world had been kind and sweet And it really seems that the shadows Have stopped following your every beat...

When you came to town I fell for you it seems to a house with twisted branches and a candle dream I'll be your Alabaster Queen Your Alabaster Queen When I hear you play I think of water and sunshine and i never really mind all your women wistful wanting you...

You look the same Nothing round you ever changed Behind tall trees, plenty of grass And white pine leaves This is not your world anymore I sat in the car in the shadowed topiary gardens I had long imagined where you lived The skin of your palms And so...

(words by Edgar Allan Poe) It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabelle Lee And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me I was a child an...

I hardly think about you anymore Except when I see the water and the sand on the ocean floor All the years that I've held you close You should've been anyone else, I know All the years that I've held you close You should've been anyone else, I know Some...

You say it's time to put away the bottle I don't remember what you said I will take you in as my apostle 'Cuz a love is in our bed I'm hol-ding on to you Threw the door in your face again You're closer to me than my own skin You know this cold is so in...

As I lay in death, my son Comfort me today Once I made a sin so strong Repentance true, I pray My lady, she is strong and fair And in her bed I lay But lies I told, my lust was bored And here comes judgment day But here comes the time I feel my consc...

Tomorrow I'm gonna leave a bird on your grave And say a little prayer for you Kyle says you've been dead for a couple of months And I've been thinking you're still here my friend And I still have your songs in my head And your face engraved into the glas...

If I call your name at midnight You would not be there If I call your name at midnight Oh, you would not be there You said my name so sweetly Oh, the one time that you called Oh, you said my name so sweetly That I took my clothes all off Oh, the bird...

Seven winter's past and gone I once was young and I once was strong Shall I be I'll be I'll be Six fine times I've felt my knees Buckle to your sweet release Shall I be I'll be I'll be Five times tried to conjure you A letter or a note or clue Sh...

[Incomprehensible] I was brittle Crushed and tore your name from leaf hearts And blades of grass, they were lost in the haze And it's funny, he still loves me And it's funny, he still loves me Call her name, she dreams of you Send her your regards In the fles...

Take her to the river Call her a river-child Take her to the forest Call her a little wild Sell her to the gypsy For a jar of metal coins Take her to the mountain And thrust yourself Into her loins Calico Calico Calico Her lips are white as snow...

Photographs of your face Against the wind Against the rain I'm gonna burn them all And bury your name All your damsels in the dark And sea-shell branches in the park I'm gonna burn them all And bury your name Photographs of your face Against the wi...

She'd know in her time She was young A year to die She had gazed a mile In the corner in the night And a man come to her In the dead of old winter And the doldrums [?] To touch her body and her mind Singing, Dum-diddle-dum Days of fun, days of rum...

I was coming apart those days I don't give a damn about the way Colors on the trees change from red to green It's a dead city, Emily But it was a blaze, still, I had to stay With that band, Emily I saw the light today Opened up the door And the other...

I sent my song to soon You didn't free me at all And I barely made it here You're driving through the towns And you start to missing me Through Tennessee I had it all wrong I was about to believe That I could fall for you And you had eyes for me You...

So do you know I'm a dancer now With red painted lips, and a jezebel crown So have you heard, I'm a singer now With reliquary eyes, and a diadem frown But I look for you In the diamond trees And the highway divine Deliver me Your father died A month ago And h...

Flowers bloom and I saw you standing I know it's safe to come out of the woods God knows what brought us together But we grew better, we grew better Dissolve into the air I am another body In this town I don't care about anybody Except a few around A...

Divers of the dust You can help me if you must Divers of the dust Lying here, on the rocks With the cliffs disintegrating Last I heard, in the end The waves were scraping city streets You look out the window to see Seven lines of stunted trees How d...

If you hadn't made it now, you're never gonna make it Seventeen people in the dark tonight You see some familiar faces Behind the cellular lights Chi-town in the winter, then we saw the Hollywood sign You used to drink more than your man could Waiting f...

Red is the color of memory Blue is the way to green And darling you did gamble ‘cause you were a dying breed Yes you were a dying breed Yellow the color of your skin Black was the color of your hair Your earthly days have passed you by Where oh where oh where...

It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening I hear that you're building your little house deep in the de...

Feathered failures on my knees I broke my back from missing thee I turned to brittle barren worlds I hear you’re living with the girl Sara Sara eyes of blue Sara Sara in love you She knows you had a woman fine With eyes as deep as brandy wine Flora flora, flor...

And I say to the day Why'd you drop down to die With fifty five falls And seventy skies? And I say to the day Why this ballad of brine? With Mayflower May and here monocle'd eye Where she lies Gently close her eyes Where she lies Gently close her eyes Oh, Dam...

Firecrackers burned into heaven on the floor My attackers, it's me it's me it's me you're looking for July Fourth of last year, we spilled all the blood How'd you spend your summer days? I know better now I don't call you up at night Cause baby your ghost...

Winter was an island, child Some of the friends you had been gone awhile It's a dark twisted line across your sea and into the wild People are looking down you say You can feel the beat of yesterday On the street there was a big parade and a family of four G...

Hay tantos muertos Y tantos malecones que el sol rojo partia Hay tantos muertos Y tantas cabezas que golpean los buques Hay tantos muertos Y tantas manos que han encerrado besos Hay tantos muertos Y tantas cosas que quiero olvidar 

You were gone and I was gone and all of the flowers were dead and gone And all of the things that I had, were songs again Weaving the scent of the loss of your heart from they are to meant Life seems so empty without you, my friend Heartpaper lover Are you g...

I called you when I was drunk all the time Stuck on the mountain in winter's prime Laying on the floor I knew you were never mine Holed up at the Holiday Inn I'd rather watch crime TV then see you again Peeled off the bed, I heard what you said In the...

Every night without the light Or brightly shining low Silver trees and darkened leaves Blot the sky above As the yellow moon to the darkest night Turns to raging fire The road it bends and the darkness spins To voices in the choir I dream of horses an...

Over time I've come to see That I'm no better off Hungry is the ghost inside And nothing seems to stop I am a night breaker And air slings back to you Looking through the windows To other people's rooms Thought I saw you in a store Just a sign of wa...

Changed in a rest stop into my dress Be sure not to touch the floor I've done that kind of thing before Drove down 95, put on my eyes In the rearviewmirror as I enter New York You stopped calling my out my way You stopped calling all together I may be a...

Gladly to your home again Forgive me to the rain It's true that I willed And wished for you Each night upon my bed Driving down your road again A winding road of green Your face a distant memory An autumn leaf in spring It was a long time ago In the...

Where did you go When the snow fell that year you were inside these wooden walls like a bear eager child for the end in your lair for the end of the year And that old familiar fear creeps up your little arms and runs through your veins like blood through your...

I used to be like you The first to walk away I never thought that I'd see the day That I'd start anew I was insane, but not like you You're a natural disaster and I am Watching you blow up everything You touch and the earth will crumble You speak and...

People leaving faster than they come In my life I remember none Better than you in the woods In my second neighborhood So strange to be in that backyard Again, same pictures on the walls It's hard to know When to let go 'Cause, I can't bury this hear...

Mayflower was a girl Who came from my room With a box of faded feathers And her leather made shoes But you know when she goes She’ll be crying Cause she died all alone With her feathers and bows I was just a lonely thing When I met Mr. Bear And he loved his sl...

Last thing that I said to you in the driveway muttering profane 'I never want to see your face again' But I will leave the light on Leave the light on In case you're coming back Change my heart and count the days All I remember all I remember is 'we'...

Lily was a maiden in the castle sea They found her in the forest Where the wild willows be Lily was a maiden in the castle sea They found her in the forest Where the wild willows be Singing, Don't plead me, no For I will seize you in the snow Singing,...

Mama, I have nothin' but cobwebs and dust in the lock Blood runs thick in the veins But I live like a fish in the water again She says soft to a fault She believes the hardest things of all True love never did exist at all Ohh, she lives in a dark cloud of l...

Mama, I have nothin' But cobwebs and dust in the lock Blood runs thick in the veins But I live like a fish in the water again She says soft to a fault She believes the hardest things of all To love never did exist at all Aw, aw, aw, aw She lives in a dark cl...

Without a lover Without a friend Without a saviour Without a friend Without a lover Without a friend Mayflower walked away Away towards the air And if you see her Call out her name And if you hear her Out in the rain Mayflower Maybelle It was her...

Oh to find Another lover Oh to lie In the bed of another Breaking the bread And raising the silver there With you And I dreamed your face In the Mexican summer With Texas above To die with my brother Breaking the bread And raising the silver there With you A...

Sometimes you bring me flowers A misery, it seems to me I don't want to live a day without you Haunting my memory Goodbye misery Letters on the line Goodbye misery Letters on the line Come in now, you know I won't desert you It's been four years of waiting f...

Mr. John Lee knew about your family You came when I was lonesome In the fairest of the spring But I did not care for your wedding ring But I did care for Marie Farewell, my sweet Bowled you off and took me How my hair was a raven And my eyes were shin...

Mr. John Lee what is happening to me last time I saw you bringing fire wood into your house from a tree but I didn't love you quite as much as sweet Marie the sherriff he never had to come to wade through the water swamps and some strange mystery to find Marie...

Sooner or later I will see you or something When we talked in the night To the sound of the broken swing In the beginning Stars I would fancy And we'd walk in the night To the sound of the surf crashing Further and further Are you growing now Furthe...

My love and I Were walking down the road In a dream that I had not so many years ago. And if my red blood will cease to flow, Your ghost may come where I will go. See you're as good as dead to me, My holy ghost, my saviour tree. And if my red blood will cease...

A heart that's full up like a landfill A job that slowly kills you Bruises that won't heal You look so tired, unhappy Bring down the government They don't, they don't speak for us I'll take the quiet life A handshake of carbon monoxide No alarms and no surpri...

I am alive, I can't see you With the clouds of dust and the dim light of the muted moon Lying on the ground Where our house used to be The birds are walking round Codes washing over me Nothing feels the same [x3] I don't know where we are I don't know...

Oh building a love song I can't bear to see you go I know things aren't the best for us And it's starting to show Take a plane and a promise To put honey in your jar Maybe it's the weather But I got nothing in my heart Maybe it's the weather But I go...

Old love haunts me in the morning La da da da da da da da di Old love haunts in the evening When the remnants of pictures come alive I told you that I loved you I laid the summer down Come all your careless wanderers By the lake with the days of ruin...

Oh what a day to dance with you Oh what a day to die I held you once in the palm of my hand And a fine old time it was Rachel I fear your death will come And leave me alone to die Rachel I fear your death will come And gone to the dogs and the dimes The men wo...

I was your lover You were my plan I told you that you were My sun and my sand But right away Get a circus job And I'd fly away And become a bird of song El Camino, take me home El Camino, take me home You are a jester And I am an elf And I'm sad...

Every night that I spend alone You don't know, you don't know me at all And in my life of a girl, of the troubles and love I'm a troubled, troubled heart Thought I'd sing with the boats Trouble all away That they'd swim back to me today My troubles are never...

I was bored of watching TV Sat out on the porch nightly Taking pictures on the phone Of people passing by Then I saw the kind of show I could never tell my man Waiting for Shadow Shows Diane [x2] I look into windows see the people, well I want to be...

Silvia, Silvia, Silvia, I met you in the belly of a whale Silvia, Silvia, Silvia Oh where did you fail Time passes slowly in the daylight But I do not want to die I met you in the belly of a wicked rhyme And I read all your letters I could find And the water...

Way on down to your home I unravel like a bow Saw your face in the wind And I'll never go there again Way on down, down I am a river Coming over your head Coming over your head Did I change your mind? I was a floater on the ground Singing a lover's...

Hasn't time in every minute Ours caunt each day. Raven's sunshine maybe So long and far away. Love's illusions, dreams we change Games we all played Friends and lovers all become Long ago and far away So long ago and far away So long ago and far...

Mother, the stallions are running wild Save me your evil thoughts of mind Lord, I tried my best to save you from your mind Lord, I tried my best to save you from your mind Mother, the table's dressed in white Save me your evil thoughts of mind I tried my best...

Strange how you stopped loving me How you stopped needing me When she came along Oh, how strange Strange you changed like night and day Just up and walked away When she came along Oh, how strange Well, I guess that I was just your puppet You held on...

Strangers lit the fire Strangers came In and out all the same And I saw them coming Saw the way Danger came around With their heavy gait I am a stranger now I am a stranger now I am a stranger now Playing in the dark You stood silhouetted as sky...

Will you play your famous song Your little song Your lovely song Will you play your famous song For me I loved all the things he saw The little [warbles?] in the dark I loved all the things he saw The ways in which the water falled Will you play you...

It's a beautiful day and I went for a walk but I saw that old dirt path where we used to talk where is the rain cause some spring lovers are bringing me down again the years have come and your hands have gone but your land is something lost in a song why doe...

You said you'd need a wrecking ball to break thee Cement around the heart. A company of mad machines would take the walls, Crumble them apart Ohh the dance? will let you batter? barricades I've tried to keep you Banned from the blockades Wait, One more...

Thinking of you All through the morning I’m thinking of you All through the evening I’m thinking of you And the way that your holy water grew I met a girl under the water It made me recall how I wanted a daughter But you never gave me nothing that I could hol...

Say hello to the sea Or to the lonely water Say hello to the sea Under the skies of azure And I met him yesterday Under my old umbrella And I met him yesterday Under the skies of azure And turquoise was the colour of his eyes And bitter were the colo...

And I was your undertaker I was your highway girl I was your bitter taste Of every other world You wake in the maddening morning You wake in the firelight world You wait for your [firmer?] dancer From every other world And I was your undertaker And...

The waves rush against the folds of my face As I start to drown The waves rush against the folds of my face As I start to drown Oh, Virginia Virgina, Virginia Die In winter the water will wash up above the waterside In winter the water will wash up above the...

Fell asleep, I fell asleep, I fell asleep And nothing had changed I thought I saw (Fell asleep, I fell asleep) Birds falling from the sky (I fell asleep and nothing had changed) The filigree of you and I And you will always be Young and alive Oh my G...

I keep thinking it was a dream that I hit you when you were down I keep changing everything from the river to the town Was it a dream or something sinister? Was it a dream or something sinister? I got a better half, it's sad I know I know I got a better h...

I died when you left Everyone said you were the righteous one Down the streets that I walk along Down in the house where I love the walls Down to the basement with my childhood charms You came running We are coming back Cause everything is here We are...

When you land I'll be around I'll wait for you to come around When you land I'll be around I'll wait for you to come around Give me a chance I'll make you a ring and we'll fly to our wedding give me a chance I'll make you see and fly to our wedding W...

Yellow lights are free and climbing up the sad old grey behind me Can you help her walk away again Blue the colour of the water Mary and her devil-daughter Drinking rubies in the rain again Oh Mary Don't you die Oh Mary Don't you die Cause of the colour of he...