1.Home
Home, so far from home,
so far to go,
and we've only just begun.
Oh, every lie we told
is written in stone,
every lie we wrote on our bones.
Hold on, there's nothing to pack.
We know we're not coming back.
Oh, every promise that we broke
is sewn to our clothes,
now we are pinned to the wind I suppose.
Oh, every falling flake of snow,
it has to give in,
oh but we spin and we spin and we spin.
Hold on, there's nothing to pack.
Lay your heart out, we're not coming back.
Hold on, there's nothing to pack.
Lay your heart out, we're not coming back.
We're not coming back.
2.A Sail
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 lie
Well, no one will notice
And of you and I
Well, I was the loudest
While you stayed quiet
We were surrounded
It's long gone that I carry on from the winter
I asked you upstairs
Until we tangled in my hair
You were never one for chronic chattering
Your heart beat pale
While I flew my colors
I flew my colors like a sail
Now it is your line
I know that I wrote it
And if you tell a lie
Well, no one will notice
And of you and I
Well, I was the loudest
While you stayed quiet
We were surrounded
I will roll my heart up
I will roll my heart up
I will roll my heart up
I will roll my heart up
3.Knots
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 the volume,
what'll I say without you.
Oh I don't know what to do with myself
now that I'm here and you're gone.
What'll I do when you've gone away,
my ball wont pin, my records won't play
and all of my hours limp into days,
what'll I do without you.
What'll I do now that you're gone,
my boat won't row, my bus doesn't come,
I have the fingers, you've got the thumb,
what'll I do without you.
Oh I don't know what to do with myself
now that I'm here and you're gone.
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.
4.What'll I Do
(feat. Ray LaMontagne)
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 chases away,
they stay asleep.
O Sleep, come for me,
I will come willingly,
like a leaf from a tree in October.
O Sleep, come for me, I wait hopefully.
I was drunk on a dream, now I'm sober.
From now until dawn,
it can't be too long for me,
I count the hours
'til I sleep with your feet by my feet,
From now until dawn,
it can't be too long for me,
I count the hours
'til I sleep with your feet by my feet,
your breath on my cheek, asleep.
5.O Sleep
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 edge of Dublin, the edge of May and June.
Oh to live in a paper house again,
where we grew by the light of the moon.
Often we took the train,
the sky pacing white to grey,
when you or I would leave
and the other would stay.
We were all that we had
and breathed in each others words,
I would ask for truth and
you'd look for something to burn.
Oh we walked in a hallowed place back then
the edge of Dublin, the edge of May and June.
Oh to live in a paper house again,
where we grew by the light of the moon.
You were much younger then,
younger than I am now,
I still keep as much an eye as the wires allow,
I still keep as much an eye as the wires allow.
Oh we walked in a hallowed place back then
the edge of Dublin, the edge of May and June.
Oh to live in a paper house again,
where we grew by the light of the moon.
Oh you know what you are to me
and you know you will always be.
6.Paper House
Your heart sings like a kettle
and your words, they boil away like steam.
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.
When the time comes,
and rights have been read,
I think of you often
but for once I meant what I said.
I was salted by your hunger,
now you've gone and lost your appetite
and a little bird is every bit as handy in a fight.
I am lonely as a memory
despite the gathering round the fire.
Aren't you every bird on every wire？
When the time comes,
and rights have been read,
I think of you often
but for once I meant what I said.
Here I stay, I lay me down,
in a house by the Hill.
Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.
Here I stay, I lay me down,
in a house by the Hill.
Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.
Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.
Dug from the rubble, cut from the kill.
7.Little Bird
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
and I summoned remote hexes
and I sent them across dust and oceans.
In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion
I might phone you,
but there it lived and died, a notion.
She said Bird, why？ I said Bird, why？
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
We came up on Ohio,
I have you chewed on like a biro.
You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering.
We came to Minneapolis,
all fizzy blood and twitchy fists.
I buried you in a day of snowing.
She said Bird, why？ I said Bird, why？
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
8.Passenger
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 die.
And don't walk on ice, no matter how nice,
how sturdy, enticing it seems.
Please cross at the lights
and don't start fires or fights and
don't dabble in heights on caffeine.
Like you always say
Safe travels, don't die, don't die,
safe travels, don't die.
And don't swallow bleach
out on Sandymount beach,
I'm not sure I'd reach you in time my boy.
Please don't bungee jump
or ignore a strange lump
and a gasoline pump's not a toy.
Like you always say
Safe travels, don't die, don't die,
Safe travels, don't die, don't die,
Safe travels, don't die, don't die,
Safe travels, don't die, don't die.
9.Safe Travels (Don't Die)
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 through a tangle of thorns.
Bird, we've so many days spent beside
this sulk of a river,
now we're deep down dyed
into the marrow, out with the tide,
with all that you have and I hold.
You'll never have nowhere to go.
Your heart, it holds more than your hands,
not bought or sold, more than mountains.
Your heart, it holds more than your hands,
not bought or sold, more than mountains.
Look at this silver and gold.
You'll never have nowhere to go.
You'll never have nowhere to go.
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