Iron & Wine

[fox69]

"Monkeys Uptown"

"Monkeys Uptown"


I knew you well, I know you best
A baby mouth and I the breast
A lazy bone, an eagle eye
Circling a city that's higher than the sky
And it's looking like you better do what they say
Those monkeys uptown, I told you not to fuck around
Heaven's the name and the river is brown
With all the mud and the rain, it never settles down
It never settles down
Your baby left you unimpressed
But no one likes a beggar slightly overdressed
Trouble comes in funky clothes
You can always find a razor lying in the road
And it's looking like you better do what they say
Those monkeys uptown, I told you not to fuck around
Heaven's the name and the river is brown
With all the mud and the rain, it never settles down
It never settles down
I knew you well, I know you best
Everybody owes something to everybody else
Gabriel gave me some news to give to you
Maybe taken for granted, you've nothing better to do
And it's looking like you better do what they say
Those monkeys uptown, I told you not to fuck around
Heaven's the name and the river is brown
With all the mud and the rain, it never settles down
It never settles down

 

[fox69]

"Morning"

"Morning"


Hard light, take the wings of the winter
Song bird, they were strong hands that held her
Miles above ground, we can’t see you now
Morning took the reins from the rider
Strong hands on the lap behind her
They tear her nightgown, we can’t see you now

 

[fox69]

"Muddy Hymnal"

"Muddy Hymnal"


We found your name across the chapel door
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been

The shaking preacher told the captain's man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
Then pulled the shade to keep the crowd from peeking in

We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house and telling everyone you'd drowned

The begging choir told the captain's man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two they gladly drag you down

We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow across a long lost violin

Your lover's angel told the captain's man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm and placed it on your dreaming head

 

[fox69]

"My Lady's House"

"My Lady's House"


There is light in my lady's house
And there's none but some falling rain
This like a spoken word
She is more than her thousand names
No hands are half as gentle
Or firm as they like to be
Thank God you see me the way you do
Strange as you are to me
It is good in my lady's house
And the shape that her body makes
Love is a fragile word
In the air on the length we lay
No hands are half as gentle
Or firm as they like to be
Thank God you see me the way you do
Strange as you are to me

 

[fox69]

"My Side Of The Road"

"My Side Of The Road"


Saw you take it on the chin outside the Phoenix Motor Inn
You could always find a way to kill the bird and keep the flame
Somehow lighter on your feet, crossing the dark end of the street
Falling harder than a star cause you can hear the broken heart
Within the world, within the world
That ain't your soul, it won't sing along
Mission bugs out every night, they throw themselves into the light
Always waking from a dream of blowing up and burning clean
Saw you cold and getting wet, sucking the ends of cigarettes
You learned how to love a scar cause you could hear the broken heart
But you won't sing that sad song
Saw you run and hide, I saw you slide across the sky
But I never saw you down on my side of the road
Saw you take it on the chin and fix it back with bobby pins
Saw you lose before the start, I saw you shining in the dark
Saw you chained, I saw you choke, saw you running out of rope
Saw you shaking off the blues, I saw you recognize the tune
But you won't sing that sad song
Frisco's too much for me to bear, I thought for sure you'd meet me there
But I never saw you down on my side of the road

 

[fox69]

"Naked As We Came"

"Naked As We Came"


She says "wake up, it's no use pretending"
I'll keep stealing, breathing her.
Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes 'round the yard
She says "If I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes round the yard

 

[fox69]

"New Mexico's No Breeze"

"New Mexico's No Breeze"


God gave you red light on every green road sign when you left Santa Fe
We were two string beans and you were too nineteen to be blowing away
There were thieves in the square hiding hands and hiding prayers in all their mumbling
Nothing left you alone, tangled hills and tiny verio singing something
Stuck with her pin curls, your mama was scared of the world, it was born with a bang
I was stepping on sea shells by the old Mission San Miguel when a bell tower rang
And the sky fell apart heard the rain, I heard your heart, and what was spoken
Was "nothing begs for a name, nothing wants to stay the same, and nothing's broken"
When your friends and their friends passed the pipe or tied the knot
Honeymoon music played in the drive thru parking lot
I woke up by your bed, you were wandering around the yard
Window wide as a day but the sun just hit too hard
Little low votive doors, Mama's house slowed a little more every evening
Naked boys throwing stones, beady eyes and desert bones, they saw you leaving
God gave you bobwhites and the good kind of black night when you left Santa Fe
New Mexico's no breeze and you were so nineteen, you were blowing away

 

[fox69]

"No Moon"

"No Moon"


Black dog bit through the keeper's chain
Small and angry when the Devil came
Sold my soul like a pocket knife
There was no moon, there'll be no milk as sweet

Tomcat curled on a rabbit cage
Brittle fingers in the potter's clay
Sold my soul and I laid her down
There was no moon, there'll be no milk as sweet

Blue bird laughs on a fallen tree
Sunset burns on a quiet sea
Sold my soul and they ran me down
There was no moon, there'll be no milk as sweet

 

[fox69]

"No Way Out Of Here"
(originally by David Gilmour)

"No Way Out Of Here"
(originally by David Gilmour)



There's no way out of here
When you come in you're in for good
There was no promise made
The part you played the chance you took
There are no boundaries set
But time and yet you waste it still
So it slips through your hands
Like grains of sand you watch it go
There's no time to be lost
You'll pay the cost so get it right
There's no way out of here
When you come in you're in for good
And never was there an answer, there an answer
Not without listening without seeing
There are no answers here
When you look out you don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played the chance you took
There's no way out of here
When you come in you're in for good
And never was there an answer, there an answer
Not without listening without seeing
There's no way out of here
When you come in you're in for good
There are no answers here
When you look out you don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played the chance you took
(There's no way out of here
When you come in you're in for good
There are no answers here
When you look out you don't see in
There was no promise made
The part you played the chance you took...)
There's no way out of here

 

[fox69]

"On Your Wings"

"On Your Wings"


God, there is gold hidden deep in the ground
God, there's a hangman that wants to come around

How we rise when we're born
like the ravens in the corn
on their wings, on our knees
crawling careless from the sea

God, give us love in the time that we have

God, there are guns growing out of our bones
God, every road takes us farther from home

All these men that you made
how we wither in the shade
of your trees, on your wings
we are carried to the sea

God, give us love in the time that we have