Devendra Banhart

[fox69]

"Wake Up, Little Sparrow"

"Wake Up, Little Sparrow"


Wake up, wake up, little sparrow
Don't make your home out in the snow
Don't make your home out in the snow

Little bird, oh don't you know?
Your friends flew south many months ago
Your friends flew south many months ago

You're just a baby, you cannot fly
Your wings won't spread up against the sky
Your wings won't spread up against the sky

Wake up, wake up, little sparrow
Don't make your home out in the snow
Don't make your home out in the snow

Don't make your home out in the snow

 

[fox69]

"Walilamdzi"

"Walilamdzi"


[Original Pit River dialect:]
Dalilamdzi
Walilamzi
De'Landzi Delandzi
Seena Seena
Empo Empo Empo Allea Namuli Allea Hamuli
Dalilamdzi Walilamdzi
De'landzi De'landzi
Seena Seena
Coyaba wade toololaakadzi
[English translation:]
The dawn
Is dawning
A shadow a shadow
I come home
May you may you rejoice
Rejoice grandmother
Rejoice grandmother
World over, all living
Person, you are living

 

[fox69]

"Water May Walk"

"Water May Walk"


Water may walk
Daughter may walk
Mother may walk
Father may walk
Marth fell asleep in a perfect fire
Water in hands
Mother in hands
Brother in hands
Held in the hands
Of one million bending bones
I know its name
You know its name
Never above
Never above
One thousand mending moans
The fire inside
The silver inside
The hollow inside
The echo inside
The red setting sun inside
The earth has its eyes
The sea has eyes too
Brown mother eyes
Blue mother blue
And eyes are the stems of space
Mother may grow
Daughter may grow
Father may grow
And swallow the seed
Of trees in the chest of my mind
I've got some to give
I've like to give some
Love will still live
When our time is done
And earth be light, be light

 

[fox69]

"We All Know"

"We All Know"


We all know
That the wind blows
And the moon glows
And our lungs grow
We belong to the floating hand
That's made by some animals
And we all dance so
We can let go
And remove clothes
And trade loans
Like the type of tongue that roots from your breast
And it shakes your pretty little clavicle
A good friend
Is walking
To a homeland
And inside land
And to him I said
You can leave your eyes at the horizon's dead door
'Cause you won't need them anymore
The children
Spend the dawning
And the morning
Disappearing
They reappeared as a seed of love
You know, the hard parts are vegetables
We all know

 

[fox69]

"Welcome To The Island"

"Welcome To The Island"


All my fingers ran off
And I just couldn't follow them
Your eyelash was an island
And your eyes were someone's friend
How could that have been
Well I heard it was a real sweet thing

Now when my smells grew some new smells
And I just couldn't smell them all
I smell my sister in the winter
And my father in the fall
Cross sand and snow
A tired moan

 

[fox69]

"When The Sun Shone On Vetiver"

"When The Sun Shone On Vetiver"


When the sun shone on vetiver
When the sun shone on vetiver
When the sun shone down on her
Well, there's silver in that hole
Yeah, there's silver in that hole
Yeah, there's silver and coal
And they're longing for the land
And they're longing for the land
For nature's forgiving hand
And we're drifting
And we're sailing
And we're drifting
And we're sailing
And we're drifting
Sailing...
Now the sun aligns you legs
And your lips and arms and breasts
And the moon pours weather then
And your branches claw around my claws
Your branches claw around my claws
And my leaves brush against your paws
And we're dancing
And we're dancing
And we're dancing...
In ireland my baby waits for me
In greeceland my baby waits for me
In spainland my baby waits for me
In ireland my baby waits for me
In all lands my baby waits for me
Waiting patiently
She's waiting patiently
Waiting patiently
Waiting patiently
I fall in love

 

[fox69]

"Whistling"

"Whistling"


There's one way to whistle, whistle while you work.
I know I am the plateau.
Just one way to whistle, but it's too soon.
My love the red lagoon.

 

[fox69]

"Will Is My Friend"

"Will Is My Friend"


One, two, three, four

Will is my friend
Will sings like John
Goin' back to California

Will is the West Coast with me
Will is a past is a plenty
Will is a blue friend of mine
With whom I spend a whole lot of my time

The lemon tree it laughs at me
It's growin' beautifully
The little veins it would unwind
And it'll wrap your whole in time

Now let's have a glass of wine
Now let's have another glass of wine

This is the water in which we wade
This is our father, this is how he strayed
This is the wind and this is the breeze, Will

Will is my friend
Will sings like John
Goin' back to California

 

[fox69]

"Won't You Come Home"

"Won't You Come Home"


Won't you come home I surrender
I miss my sweet bag of bones, drunk and tender
Why don't you want to stay here suspended
In the dead arms of a year that has ended

Can't see the shape of the song that we're singing
River too dirty for us to go swimming
Why would you want to stay clear of adoration
That disappears when you're near when you're close

Won't you come home I surrender
I miss my sweet bag of bones, drunk and tender
Why don't you want to stay here suspended
In the dead arms of a year that has ended

 

[fox69]

"Won't You Come Over"

"Won't You Come Over"


I used to live alone
But I found you so certain
I'm yours to take
Now I can't wait
For all the mistakes
We've yet to make

Now shake it up baby
Twist and shout
We're a war torn building
All bombed out
Love not unlike an old drunk
Pissing the night away
Love not unlike

Won't you come over and love me
Won't you come over again
Can you overcome the unnerving
Ossifying body you're in

I used to live alone
Just counting the pretty little flowers on my dress
Now I can't wait to consecrate this wondrous mess
We're a song forgotten till we sing again
Start at the bottom and then we descend

Love not unlike
Little joy ain't around no more
Love not unlike
I am woman hear me roar
Love not unlike
Larry Levan sanctified
Love not unlike

Won't you come over and love me
Won't you come over again
Help me overcome the unnerving
Ossifying body I'm in

I ask all the time
But you never tell me
What have I got to do
To make that man want me

What have I got to do
(Loving you is making it easy)
To make that man want me
(Loving how he's making it all)
[x3]

What have I got to do