Sun Kil Moon

Come out from the burning fire butterfly Let me lock you in my room and keep you For a while Could you be the answer to my every prayer? Could you be the one for who I care? Come into my arms and let your worries die Come out from the web of all your ta...

No this is not my guitar I'm bringing it to a friend And no I don't sing I'm only humming along Up here in the air I'm just mumbling at the clouds Wanting to be known While I pass the lonely hours I came down from the room I saw you in the rain Laughing with...

It's New Year's Day in New Orleans And I'm walking to the river with the girl of my dreams And we're walking, I have thoughts I'm not sure others have Like how the most underrated actor in the world is Steve Railsback Who played Manson in Helter Skelter an...

A pillow lays on cold cement A blanket by a broken vent She's there a while And then she's gone I'm away for weeks Arrive at night She hears my steps Turns off the light and runs No mind at all, more space than I need It's just me among the weeds A...

Up through the ashes you rose Leaving her forever purer than before All of her goodness enclosed With an ever-burning red volcanic glow From your honest eyes, I stole And I've forsaken you, and I amount to nothing Still up these rivers we'll row Far awa...

Had I known Had I been warned The hawks will hover Buzzards swarm The rattlers strike And scorpions sting Their tiny drops could Stay a King You have told so many lies Said them right into my eyes Used your power to hurt them Crashed into your ope...

I woke up this morning, August 3rd It's been a pretty slow and uneventful summer Went to visit a friend in Santa Fe Went to New Orleans and went to see my family Woke up this morning and it occurred I needed one more track to finish up my record I was feeling...

Damn if I didn't just go walking and find some horses A man-made lake and some trees Came back to my room all covered in sweat Here at the Swiss Waldhaus Hotel Filled out an application for a work visa For Japan and Australia It's been a few weeks since...

Fuck those crowing crows, nicotine stains my throat On a slow moving boat, I move, looking for you And down the river along the sea Up in the sky a big black kite follows Stranger with skin pale as the moon Who woke me in my hotel room On my made conne...

The ancient streets, so crowded and narrow Winding stairs climb up, up high The air tonight hangs sour and heavy I'm dying up here, love, lie with me, lie The view electrical and sprawling The city lights move out and on and on Out there in the halo of...

Oh Carissa, when I first saw you, you were a lovely child. And the last time I saw you, you were fifteen and pregnant and running wild. I remember wondering, could there be a light at the end of your tunnel? But I left Ohio then and pretty much forgotten all a...

Sorry that I could never love you back I could never care enough In these last days Her tears Fell on her pages found me well On her words I don't know what To do or say Wading through Warm canals and pools clear blue Where Tuscarawas flow into Th...

Spring, spring.. flowers blossom and bloom. Squirrel, squirrel.. jump down onto my roof. Sparrow, Cardinal, hummingbird. Redwood, holly tree, juniper... The service moves slowly through the hills Faint sound of the highway Night sets on the church of pi...

Soon the chain reaction started in the parking lot Waiting to bleed on to the big streets That bleed out on to the highways and On to others cities, built to store and sell these rocks. Well aren't you feelin' real dirty Sitting in the parking lot Soon...

Went to see a band tonight And they wouldn't play my favorite tunes It's 2012 but I like the ones from 1992 There was no place to sit And goddamn it I couldn't use my phone And fuck if the singer didn't joke That we all looked like cookie-cutter clones...

Katy Kerlan was my first kiss. I was only five years as she hit me with her purse. I had braces on my legs and I almost fell down. And from that day moving forward I've been petrified of blondes. Oh Patricia, she was my first love. She sat eight rows behind m...

Traveling swallowing Dramamine Feeling spaced breathing out Listerine I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell ya And that you'd killed the better part of me If you could just milk it for everything I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean But I can'...

Looking out on my roof last night Woken up from a dream I saw a typhoon coming in close Bringing the clouds down to the sea Making the world look gray and alone Taking all light from my view Keeping everyone in And keeping me here with you Around you...

The hospital called last night They said you’d gone code silver They sent the police out searchin’ Found you down at Fifth and Minna High on crack cocaine You and Juan Valdez They sent him back to jail And they put you back to bed They called in the mo...

Does not exist, take an exit I hear voices insinuating Feeds me words to this song that I am saying Sunlight, 7:20 PM early September Standing looking at a photograph you don't remember You look out of breath, and me like I am faking As I matter of fa...

Come to me, my love One more night, come on 'Cause I don't want to be without Without you In the air tonight, so cold and strange Winter of loss when I have changed She is floating out too soon So soon In our room, inside With these ones I want to h...

You're in the back seat and you say to yourself "It doesn't matter anyway" Weeds pulling weeds and your Blaming yourself We're all indifferent in our own ways You're in trouble now and you say to yourself "My baby clean conscience anyways" You're in the...

Was on a flight home from—well, it doesn't matter Eleven hours, a million thoughts were gathered And my mind kept racing to my garden of lavender I wanted to get to them so they wouldn't die When I got home, they were dry as weed While the vines wrapped a...

Smile down on us, sun Show your rays when things come undone All animals lead us to light When we can't see Stars, Saturn and moon Glow for those who cannot get through Rain fall and voice sound For those of whom still are not found Gentle moon Find...

Cassius Clay was hated more than Sonny Liston Some like KK Downing more than Glenn Tipton Some like Jim Nabors, some Bobby Vinton I like 'em all I put my feet up on the coffee table I stay up late watching cable I like old movies with Clark Gable Just...

You're standing by the grey ice water Out in the wind above ground out in the weather You had yourself a crazy lover Becoming frozen trying hard to forget her You got a job up in Alaska To save what the cannery pays There ain't no way to spend it On a b...

The saddest eyes she wore So long and then forlorn It made me love you more and more The bluest heart she owns As she gets more and more alone As the deepest cello drones The oldest yard cat sings Her mournful bellowing From branches in the trees The stille...

Blackberries ripe on the branches Her skin is burning, she bends to pick them Bake a delicious pie For our aching stomachs, we delight Sorrow came in floods this April With out reason, humble warning We're now in May, June and July Don't leave, my love...

Don't cry my love don't cry no more A crashing sky a rolling screen A city drowning Gods black tears I cannot bear to see She lay under the midnight moon Her restless body stiring Until the magic morning hour Like poison it succumbs her Her baby sk...

I can live with the sky falling out from above I can live with your scorn, your sourness, your smug I can live growing old alone if push comes to shove But I can't live without my mother's love I can live flying round at an impossible pace I can live wit...

It was backstage in Moscow late one night We shared a cigarette, a kiss goodbye Her name was Cayenne, so young and soft Her hands trembled badly, her eyes trailed off To bottles and objects around the room My backup guitar, a tray of food We didn't have...

When I was young my father taught me not to gloat. If I came home too proud of myself I get wrestled to the floor and choked. But I forgive him for that. He was an eighth grade drop out and I was being a brat. I forgive him, I do. I know that he loves me and h...

I watched the film "The Song Remains the Same" At the midnight movies when I was a kid At a Canton, Ohio mall with friends One warm summer weekend Jimmy Page stood tall on screen And I was mesmerized by everything The Peter Grant/John Paul Jones dream s...

You and I must make a pact, we must bring salvation back Where there is love, I'll be there I'll reach out my hand to you, I'll have faith in all you do Just call my name, I'll be there I'll be there to comfort you Build my world of dreams around you, a...

Jesus Christ was an only child Went down to the river And he drank and smiled And his dad was oh-so-mad Should have insured that planet Before it crashed Working hard to make internet cash Work your fingers to the bone sitting on your ass I know now wh...

Spent the day with my dad and his old friend, Jim Wise. He's on house arrest and he sits around inside. We brought him food from Panera Bread, the snoring sun rolled out of bed. He talked about his ninety Corvette, his warehouse job, and his knee replacement....

Every bird fell weak on lifeless ground Every eye swelled from tears ever clear Every seed broken in spring lived 'til fall All your babies will be around to see them growing up Will you be here with me, my love When the warm sun turns to ash And the la...

We floated downstream like swans in the sun Surrounded by friends and lovers We watched on with smiles beaming so bright The river behind them, the fading daylight I knew her back from when she was young Those days poured out faster than rounds from a gu...

Here she comes breaking through my window In the early morning hours For the moment I am disrupted But in time she'll make me smile All the wondrous animals Roaming around the earth Bring us songs of calm They do no wrong, they do no wrong You don't...

Sitting on the wings of a 747 airplane Just back from Newtown Connecticut, Cincinnati and Champaign It was nice hanging out in those cities with some of my friends Get up on stage and play beautiful music with them Now I'm looking out the window where Rob...

Oh, tiring city Leave you from time to time People with things in their ears Cutting me off in line Get on the long yellow highway Need to get the hell out Hassles, hassles, hassles Always stacking up Oh, jilted lover Why won't you leave me be Why m...

I came out from under her warm sheets Into the brisk late October If only for one last hope I wanted my time with you to be over I'm staring up into the sky While all the rain is pouring down I'm reaching out for your help But evil beings hold me backw...

Woken up, those New York mornings, shivering bones Thinking how the air welled up, her old brown stone Close down to kiss her, marks time past flown So hard to find it in us to leave these dreams, to leave these dreams Growing up, Ohio mornings, sleeping...

Micheline used to come to our house and knock on our door. My dad would answer and say, "What do you want girl?" and she'd say, "Can I take a bath with Mark?" My dad would say, "My son ain't here," send her home and shut the door and we'd all laugh. And Michel...

Her window looked on North Church Street An attic space overgrown A photo book of smiling friends Road maps, New York, Los Angeles Her walls are Mediterranean blue Her baby sister picked the hue Saltwater taffy, Jersey shore Blue like the fingernails s...

I got some news on you from a friend you’re in Charlotte again teaching Spanish at high school he said you’re going by Joy you cut your hair like a boy & you don’t talk to your old friends I found a picture from before the fight we’re in natural l...

I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old And oh, my God, I feel so old I don't really feel anything On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below And oh, my God, they look so alone Now, do they really feel anything? Oh, my God, I gotta, gotta, gotta, g...

Things were amazing when you lived in LA Things were sublime up in the East Bay Then you landed in England's grey London town Again things were great You say you're a writer but what can you say When each night ends another perfect day? When a week in a...

Your body may be gone, I'm gonna carry you in. In my head, in my heart, in my soul. And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again. Well I don't know. I don't know. I Don't think so. Well that is that and this is this. You tell me what you want and...

Salvador Sanchez Arrived and vanished Only twenty-three with so much speed Owning the highway Mexico City Bred so many But none quite like him, sweet warrior Pure magic matador Pancho Villa Would never rest 'Til 1925, he closed his eyes 'Til Manil...

I was a Junior in high school when I turned the TV on. James Huberty went to a restaurant, shot everyone up with a machine gun. It was from my hometown. We talked about it til the sun went down. Then everybody got up and stretched and yawned and then our lives...

Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes Got amped up on speed and broke into houses Bunch of people of that wrote shit on the stand His last murder was south of San Francisco A guy named Peter Pan from the town The little girl on the lawn was his first An...

Salvador Sanchez Arrived and vanished Only twenty-three with so much speed Owning the highway Mexico City bred so many But none quite like him Sweet warrior Pure magic matador Pancho Villa Would never rest 'Til 1925, he closed his eyes 'Til Manill...

There by the blue, blue sea On my morning walks Seagulls dip and sway Over the mossy rocks Oh feel the wind blowing in Cool summer days Boats in the bay Sailing along Under a lone palm tree On my easy rest Centered in my gaze Her pretty yellow dre...

There's a place for us Somewhere a place for us Peace and quiet and open air Wait for us Somewhere... There's a time for us Someday a time for us Time together and time to spare Time to learn, time to care Someday, somewhere We'll find a new way of living We...

He worked from morning to ten at night sometimes three am, fixing guitars for a living honing and polishing frets, Setting the intonation and action good, Carving saddles from ox bone, bridges from Brazilian wood. He fixed my old Gibson L double O, He re...

Won herself a pass to some far off moon It was second class but what's to lose And looking out her window she could more than assume That you can't see air or time She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place They gave her a mirror so she could talk t...

Pulling my guitar out of its green velvet case A hundred setlists are staring at my face And a note from a fan there is stiff and yellow A notice of inspection from Air Canada Sitting at the Days Inn hotel, Chicago Room 222 with the ceiling fan low And...

Foghorns blowing, all day sirens, Long trip, still unwinding. Had trouble getting out of bed, Basked in the grey of fog instead. Phone rang, sun ain't shining, City I live, uphill and trying. Walked 'round the corner, Kid said "What the zing, that bird...

Scattered relics of your love Just lyin 'round your dusty room Bearing old souls, old men, old scars, dissonant wallow of guitars. Burnin' off Indian sun on the water barges hung. Through the bay window panes, covers maginify and brings. Sleepy poet's per...

Her eyes could have only been born of this ocean Delph blue, longing and weepy, they want me so much to want you All wrapped up beside you and winded after you've taken me My mind's roaming free, dozing, dazing, drifting out of this evening With a verse s...

Yesterday, I was working in my yard when I saw a possum Swinging in the foothills and he was all beat up and hobbling I got a closer look and his foot was mangled I was woken up earlier by what I thought was the cat tangled But it was him who got it bad fr...

In my room at Third and Seneca See the pigeons peck on tall roof tops Homeless on the corners, they carouse Ferries float out in the Puget Sound Scenesters with their beards and tennis shoes Skinny girls and pudgy ugly dudes Lift their amplifiers from th...

Fell asleep last night listening to a train whistle blowing across the Carquinez Strait And to the wind blowing through the eucalyptus trees Watching Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" Fell asleep last night listening to a train I want to visit my frien...

We're goin' down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes Gonna hit you on the face gonna punch you in your Glasses. Oh no! Just got a message said "Yeah hell is freezin' over" I Got a phone call from the Lord sayin' "boy go get a Sweater. Right now" S...

I walked the old eroded streets A million miles now have gone behind me Walked in the room, soaked up its fumes Surveyed the faces I am lying to Gave what I had, I gave my heart Though I was broken and falling apart Gave for the memory of a friend Not...

Her head lay back in blankets, soft white down Her hair warm autumn colors, floating Our days were classroom poems, true young love Some nights we roar like lions, some we coo like doves I left her long ago one summer, chasing dreams I hum good sweet exp...

I crossed the highways like I did as a child On my way to the movies, I pet cats and smile I walk the back alleys, their John Steinback calm Fake trees, lemon trees, tall shady palms Big empty churches, old antique stores Peeling Victorians that used to h...

My uncle died in a fire on his birthday. Redneck that he was, burning trash in the yard one day. On the pile he threw an aerosol can of spray. And that's how he died in the fire that day. Before he retired he was a truck driver. He'd be gone through the winte...

Going to Colorado To unload my head Going to New York City That's in New York, friends I'm going to Arizona Sex on the rocks all warm and red And we all bled Going up to Alaska Gonna get off scot-fucking-free And we all did This truckers atlas road...

Arrived in Helsinki, tired and sticky My body hit the bed, I almost fell dead Got to the venue, they ink-stamped my wrist, waitress asked me Mark... Meat or white fish? Got up on the stage, the sound it was ok But I struggled like a marlin on an unlucky d...

Oh England, oh the gloom I just left my horribly lonely room I walked to the church where I would play The cold grey August day Before I went on, I knew you were there But I put it on like I didn't care Just played and sang as well as I could If we were...

Walking down the unlit hallway of life, there's hope I know There's an angel, she follows me, follows me close, she touches my shoulder Sings words so clear they bring comfort to my ear She guided me home Breathe, my love Wake, my love Hold me, my love...

We were on up stage, I heard a classic drum fill Blasting a hundred decibels over the hill It was getting pretty vile, I asked who it was A guy in a raincoat shouted back, "They're called 'War On Drugs'!" It sounded like basic John Fogerty rock I said thi...

You are my light Dark cities, you fill the loss Of the day You are my love Radiant and pretty, over seas You find ways of bringing hope The lonely hours, gloom of night Empty mornings You are a stem, of wild flowers Rollin' hills, 'round the bay You...

On cold November days don't like to stray too far Or even leave my bed, or put down my guitar Or leave my master bedroom with it's view Overlooking the mountains On dark December days, I think of all my friends From Washington to Maine, New York to Swede...