Vashti Bunyan

Whatever pulled the wind that night It had it bring a tree down Untidy lime tree holding tight To the end of my last garden One of five aginast the sky An elegant surrender It broke the wall and bent the gate And warmed us through the winter Whatever...

In the morning when I walk along And it's been raining all night It seems the streets are wet with all the tears that I've cried When I walk along through autumn leaves That must have fallen last night It seems the leaves are all the tears that I've crie...

Baby baby it's late and you'd better go It's after three Honey please have a heart, just look at that snow Take pity on me I can hear that north wind blowing And the fire is oh so warm Well I know you should be going But how can I send you out in that s...

Come wind come rain we're off again, Our muddy boots plod down the lane The snow has snowed now the grass has growed And it's time that we were on the road. Hey ho the wind and the rain The passers by wave their arms and grin Come wind come rain we're...

None of us are what we were I know you've heard this all before I know you've heard this all before But none of us are what we were But it's a dark age, a dangerous time I'm on the last page, the end of the line But it's a dark age, a dangerous time I'm...

Just another diamond day Just a blade of grass Just another bale of hay And the horses pass. Just another field to plough Just a grain of wheat Just a sack of seed to sow And the children eat. Just another life to live Just a word to say Just anoth...

Ever since you said goodbye I haven't known what to do 'Cause I haven't wanted to try To find myself someone new 'Cause I just want to be with you How can I give myself to somebody else yet So I'll just stay alone Until I get over you and the love we kn...

Glow worms show the path we have to tread Dreamers, we should be asleep in bed Moving slowly through the springtime air Holding moments in the depth of care Holding moments in the depth of care Whisper fairy stories 'til they’re real, Wonder how the night can...

Travelling towards a Hebridean sun To build a white tower in our heads begun The grass knows, the hills know, we all know Spring has come, the good fountain flows Each hoof fall brings us nearer the land Of peat and seabirds and silver sand The grass...

Once I had a child, he was wilder than moonlight. He could do it all, like he'd been here before. Once I had a child, she was smiling like sunshine. She could see it all, like she'd been here before. Then I had a child. Took his while like northern...

Hidden in your every move All the words that you Will never say Stars and moons are not your style I've known for awhile This is not your way I hear you I hear you I do know you very well And our time will tell If I read you right It can be so v...

I don't know what love is, I can't say What it is that makes me feel this way But when I look at you it's then I know That I could follow you wherever you go Oh I don't know what love is but it seems That every night you creep into my dreams Then comes...

Don't tell me you're going away I know And don't say what you're going to say I know Don't expect me to cry Don't even say goodbye And don't say life's like that you know I know And don't tell me I'm just a kid I know And how you loved the things w...

You know there are times when I don’t need you But you seem to think it means Don’t love you but I do But sometimes I want to be alone Somewhere on my own I don’t know why it is but I sometimes feel That I have to get away yet I know I love you But so...

I'd like to walk around in your mind someday I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me I'd like to run and jump on your solitude I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me You say you just want peace and you'd never hurt anyone You see the end before...

If I were to go away Would you follow me To the ends of the earth To show me what your love is worth Or would you go and buy a car Shrug your shoulders say there you are She didn’t love me anyway If she had she would have stayed If I were to go away...

If in winter he should change and leave me I'd let him go and learn to do without him Oh I'd have a hundred lovers And my heart would not be broken And all the lies he's spoken I'd whisper to the others Oh it's winter now and he has changed and left me...

I climbed the peaks of glass with you And walked a world of brass with you And gladly left the glaring streets To share a bed of grass with you You made the elder burn for me And cut the bird filled thorn for me And through the ripening summer days You...

Jog along Bess hop along May Squeak along Blue it’s a walk along day It’s a long road and weary are we Bubble on kettle and make us all some tea Once there was a gypsy man Selling flowers from a baker’s van Bess she pulled him round the town Pulled her...

Never was much given to prayer But lately I’m pleading with the air To keep you safe from harm my dears The only things that you should keep in rows Are your perfect teeth and the rest you know Its own sweet way will always go Add your footsteps to...

When you said you would leave me I thought that I would die I thought I couldn't live anymore If you weren't here by my side But now go, and leave me I don't care anymore I don't care if I never see you no more I'll always think of you And of the love we knew...

In a lily pond I lay All upon a summer's day Then I chased a dragonfly All across an ancient sky Falling with a thousand stars down the Milky Way to Mars Back again in time for day In a lily pond I lay And the only thing he said to me Was 'young lady...

I love your eyes when you look away Thinking somewhere else of what ought to be When they’re suddenly blue for a moment of time Then the colour goes when you look at me I love your hands as a part of you As they write a word just by staying still...

The rainbow river is a laughing stream Down in a valley by a mountain that is pine tree tall The rainbow river has a small boy fishing with a worm And a jam jar by the waterfall Don’t make a sound don’t disturb the ground The biggest fish you ever saw is...

Rose hip November - autumn I’ll remember Gold landing at our door, catch one leaf and fortune will surround you evermore Pine tree very tall, waiting for snow to fall Mist hangs very still, caught by dawn in castle moats around the sleeping hill Now a pi...

I'm in a boat On the sea And I see You on the shore So sure Of yourself You're in a boat On the sea And you see Me on the shore So sure Of myself We're in a boat All at sea And we see We are the same The same But different 

Why does the sky turn grey every night Sun rise again in time Why do you think of the first love you had Some things just stick in your mind Why does the rain fall down on the earth Why do the clouds keep crying Why do you sleep curled up like a child Some th...

And there’s a sunset brimming over the sky And there’s a swallow teaching it’s young how to fly Up on high See how fast the summer passes by And there’s an oak leaf turning green into brown And there’s a pine so proud of her evergreen gown Looking down...

Maurice Snail and Timothy Grub, Swanney and Blue and Emily Grub Decided one day to go into the wood And build them a house and live there if they could And they stayed there a while in the trees and the rain Till one day two Blue Men said you’re all insan...

Travelling north, travelling north to find you Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes Don’t even know what I’ll say when I find to you Call out your name love, don’t be surprised It’s so many miles and so long since I’ve met you Don’t even know what I...

I love coming home from far across the sea I pick my little wee wifey up and set her on my knee See how my eldest boy has grown whilst I’ve been away See here’s a boat I’ve whittled for thee, especially for thee I’ve thought of you everyday I love com...

Didn't want to be the one The one who's left behind While the other one goes out to life comes back home to find Me, sitting pretty happily Surrounded by a house With cups in all their saucers And not a bit of dust Days going by in clouds Of...

The hound bays, the sheep graze I'm counting the boats in the bay As they float they seem to say: "I'm counting the waves, I'm counting the waves" The men in the boats, they wave to their wives and say: "I'm counting the hours, counting the hours Countin...

I wish I had a window over the bay And a black horse grazing on the green all day I wish I had a well to draw my water from And a warm log fire for when the summer is gone I wish I had a window over the bay And a flock of white sheep to watch from where...

Winter is blue Living is gone Some are just sleeping In spring they'll go on Our love is dead Nothing but crying Love will not find even One more new morning Why must I stay here Rain comes I'm sitting here Watching love moving Away into yesterday...