The Wailin' Jennys

I see your face across the sea You're in the waves, surrounding me I hear your voice call on the breeze On this ship out on the ocean Sailing across the sea on a big ship on the ocean The moon is rising in the east the stars hang down around her The bow...

All the stars in the sky, burn to black, close your eyes. All the stars in the sky, say goodbye, say goodbye. We were here yesterday, now it seems so far away. We were here yesterday, I heard you saying... ... you don't know me! You know one side of th...

Hurricanes will come Earthquakes break the walls Oceans rise Empires fall Enter world, light unshown Follow heart, follow home Here we are, light unshown One round heart, one round home Spin the speed of light Tetrahedron blue One last paradise Yo...

Where do you go little bird When it snows, when it snows When the world turns to sleep Do you know, do you know Is there something in the wind Breathes a chill in your heart and life in your wings Does it whisper 'start again' Start again Where is the...

Be my asleep at last Kiss me slow and hold me fast Be my sail and be my mast In the blue forever cast your love Far from pain and past Be my this one's meant to last Be my I want nothing more Pull the blinds and lock the door Be my calm after the stor...

Oh sweet peace, never have you fallen Never have you fallen upon this town Oh sweet peace, never have you fallen Never have you fallen upon this town The black crows are loaded With the call of things discarded The ribboned shard of battle And everythi...

The moon's on its way to its nightly shift The frogs fill the creek below The tall grass waves a farewell to the day The wind moans sweet and low The heron tucks his head in his wing The fish in the lake float along The sun sinks from sight Away but nev...

Take me to the breaking of a beautiful dawn Take me to the place where we come from Take me to the end so I can see the start There's only one way to mend a broken heart Take me to the place where I don't feel so small Take me where I don't need to stand...

Hey, maybe the time just wasn't right to hang on When are you gonna learn Sometimes things turn instead of turn out Hey, when are you gonna stand Stop looking over your shoulder Me, with a head full of words And not one useful expression Hey, let go...

I hear a bird chirping, up in the sky I'd like to be free like that spread my wings so high I see the river flowing water running by I'd like to be that river, see what I might find I feel the wind a blowin', slowly changing time I'd like to be that win...

Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Day is a breaking in my soul Oh where are our dear Fathers Oh where are our dear Fathers They are down in the valley a praying Day is a breaking in my soul...

She waited under wildwood, under maple and pine Wondering when her cherry blossom love would arrive He once was a young man in love with a girl like me They'd sit alone together under a cherry blossom tree Time would turn their sunny day like magic into...

Come all you sailors Sail upon my sea Swim in these salty waters Cleanse the wounds that run so deep Come all you lovers Give your hearts to me Come with your broken dreams and Your ruined fancies Come all you seekers 

A is for apple, B is for blind I jumped so fast I left the ground behind You set your sights homeward And you are more than wise It's late night heading into morning You can get used to almost anything Deep sea eyes, porcelain skin Love's sweet nests a...

When I hear that trumpet sound I will lay my burdens down I will lay them deep into the ground Then I'll know that I am glory bound I'll be travelling far from home But I won't be looking for to roam I'll be crossing o'er the great divide In a better h...

Don't know what time it is, I've been up for way too long and I'm too tired to sleep I call my mother on the phone, she wasn't home, and now I'm wondering the street I've been a fool, I've been cruel to myself I've been hanging onto nothing when nothing...

I hear the wrecking ball sure on the path, no thought for the old But the fault lines were there so how much should we care we're broken in two from the day we are born But you'll not hear any more of this said You're singing a song that's been stuck in y...

These fleeting charms of earth Farewell, your springs of joy are dry My soul now seeks another home A brighter world on high I'm a long time travelling here below I'm a long time travelling away from home I'm a long time travelling here below To lay th...

I'm gonna sing till my feet turn blue I'll sing loud enough to go through the mountains to you I'm gonna dance when the music stops When soft hearts they can't sit still Oh wake up the day Darken the night Lighten my eyelids cause I don't wanna sleep...

Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you Old man, take a look at my life Twenty-four and I'm so much more Live alone in a paradise, makes me think of two Love lost at such a cost Give me things that don't get lost Like a coin that won't get tossed,...

This is the sound of one voice One spirit, one voice The sound of one who makes a choice This is the sound of one voice This is the sound of voices two The sound of me singing with you Helping each other to make it through This is the sound of voices t...

When it rains it snows in this prairie town There's a good three inches on the ground It seems I'll be losing any peace I've found I see your face all over this town But I know you're nowhere to be found You're far away, you're safe and sound Far from...

Across that river through the orange squares of light Past the streetlamp like a beacon in the rain You've stopped in all this motion You're heavy with news too sudden You're breathing through this undertow of pain And all your friends will gather soon...

Come me own one, come me fair one come now unto me Could you fancy a poor sailor lad who has just come from sea You are ragged love and you're dirty love And your clothes smell much of tar So be gone you saucy sailor lad so be gone you Jack Tar If I...

Think of this heart as an old accident A hardened hit and run Looking ahead but just a little scared To keep all eyes on the road Can you be sure Will this be some good thing Lucky stars to reckon appear again and again Can you believe all that has bro...

There's a light on in your house but you're not home today And each time I come on by you seem so far away Can you give me some reason to hold on Can you give me some reason to stay Got some friends knocking on my door Wondering where I've been Tired o...

I have come back to you broken take me home And my body bears this trouble take me home Take me back to my beginning Before the hell of night set in And I came to this border take me home I have toured the endless starlight take me home I have shatt...

When that storm comes Don't run for cover When that storm comes Don't run for cover When that storm comes Don't run for cover Don't run from the comin' storm cause there ain't no use in runnin' When that rain falls Let it wash away When that rain fal...

I have lines under my eyes that I didn't have last year I've got the world's weight on my shoulders and I have wept a thousand years And I'm looking for a saviour to take me far away from here Where the storm has passed over and the sky above is clear I'v...

I have failed you, I have failed you I have lost my way, lost my nerve I've failed you But I love you, how I love you I have turned my back, left you last but I love you O setting sun don't sink before I've found my heart Heart don't give up now while...

Take everything that we've had Take it and burn it to the ground Some things were never meant to last Take it down, down, down, take it down, Take it down, down, down, take it down. I'm still married to it all That ain't no place to hang around My lov...

Imagine you're a girl on ten mile stilts You travel round the world, taking it all in You'll never touch the ground Is it a blessing or a curse And if you're too high to be found Are you lost or just rehearsed Got a heart that opens clear in this cool S...

I held on for so long Dusty quaint old song Things attach with glue Live and die and gone June flowers are so bold On the devil's paintbrush road The devil paints a double life And there I dare not go Live and die and gone Live and die and gone The...

Oh all the money that e'er I spent I spent it in good company And all the harm that e'er I've done Alas, it was to none but me And all I've done for want of wit To memory now I can't recall So fill to me the parting glass Good night and joy be with you...

It's been a long time since you saw your home Even those you call the closest Have slipped away somehow Feels like a lifetime you've been on the road With so many miles behind you You'd think you'd have left this world by now You've seen more than they...

If all is fair in love and war I haven't seen the score But it can't be either of those And all this time, thought I was in control But fate she held her own Even when I thought I chose Now the coldest day of winter Has made a home of my heart It bur...

The wind howls 'cross the ice floes Send the frozen snow skimming A river on a river hardened over It doesn't know the way it's going Is it north or south or westward It just glides across the shoreline 'til it's over You came for me in fast forward On...

To the man who lost his mind Left home for the last time They found him in the wintertime Looking for something he couldn't find They shipped him way out West Thought they'd put their minds at rest Now they've thrown the key away And there's nothing le...

Half mile from the riverside Square wood building hard and white I'll take water, I'll take night I will swim through snow and ice Laid your story down on me forced inside the good belief Now I only dream my words fly away like blackened birds Oh I f...

You wonder why you wonder when, You wonder how now and then, How you became who you've become You are here, And yet you dream of being there, Of being where you think the good life has begun Every darkened hallway, Every fallen dream, Every battle l...