Iron & Wine

[fox69]

"Joy"

"Joy"


Deep inside the heart of this troubled man
There's an itty bitty boy tugging hard at your hand
Born bitter as a lemon but you must understand
That you've been bringing me joy
And I'll only lie when you don't want the truth
I'm only frightened cause you finally gave me something to lose
And it's as loud as a thunderclap and you hear it, too
But you've been bringing me joy
[Interlude]
Deep inside the heart of this crazy mess
I'm only calm when I get lost within your wilderness
Born crooked as a creek bed and come to confess
That you've been bringing me joy
When I'm alive I'm living for you
Another blue bird dying but singing the blues
And it's a heartfelt silly sort of bumbling tune
About how you're bringing me joy

 

[fox69]

"Judgement"

"Judgement"


Day walks out and there's no sound
There's a candle burnin' by me now
Light enough for to see the things beyond me

Door is wide as her eyes on me
So the night comes in and starts to breathe
The only name that I really know

Tell me dear, do you think of me
At a drop of rain, or when you see
Wind it rakes as it moves across the water

Judgement comes when I'm all alone
Like a spyglass on the furthest coast
Favored now that it's left behind

When you talk to me
You could swallow me

Nighttime brings me a place I fear
Where I hear your words and feel you near
Fingers only to find a frozen memory

Sometimes clothes chosen long ago
A direction down a gravel road
Makes you wish you could take 'em back

Days walk on and when there's no sound
I go straight to you and find you down
Kneelin' next to the water where I left you

Knee-deep now in the creek I made
From the landscape lost I want to save
Save it now or be punished more

When you talk to me
You could swallow me

Nighttime brings me a place I fear
Where I hear your words and feel you near
Fingers never to find a warmer memory

Sometimes friends we knew long ago
Or affections we set free to go
Find you right where you ran to hide

 

[fox69]

"Kicking The Old Rain"

"Kicking The Old Rain"


Before you walk too far
Watching the sunlight leave
Kicking the old rain
Down the road,
Teasing the rooftop birds
Laying some love by mine
Tired from laughing
Trade-in tears

Know that our world is always on fire
Always a quiet pile of stones
We all float away with birthday balloons
Sing with your teeth cross your heart

If you've been emptied out
Blowing the flowers round
Here comes another thunder hit
This wind is a welcome breeze
Ask if it brought a song
You've got a good one
From the moon

 

[fox69]

"Kingdom Of The Animals"

"Kingdom Of The Animals"


Jenny was gone
And the moon blooms
All shining
As we dragged our panic
Up and down the riverbed
Sweating wild and weird
In our Sunday clothes

Jenny was gone
Though I thought that I knew her
And the rain came howling
Out of Virginia
Blue tick blowing the water
Out her nose

Jenny and me in the front row
And singing about how heaven calls
The kingdom of the animals all
And all revealed to us one day

Jenny and me on the hilltop
And peeking at all their upturned bottles
Jumping like leopards
Jaw hearp teasing the brushfire in its rage

Jenny came back
And the wet road still shining in our eyes
An angel clear and coronal
Clothed in all that's prodigal and strange

Jenny came back
And I thought that I heard her
Murmur something about
No men in Virginia
Spat on the ground
Like a letter tossed away

Jenny and me in my dead truck
And turning over
Just where heaven calls
The kingdom of the animals
Scratching our heads
Where the wolf would go to lay

Jenny and me as the moon blooms
Were closing and both her wide-eyed brothers
Running like shepherds
Dreaming the heat of the fields
All in flames

 

[fox69]

"Kiss Me Quick"
(with Jesca Hoop)

"Kiss Me Quick"
(with Jesca Hoop)



Kiss me quick while you still can
I'm a heart with a heavy hand
Every morning gone is a crown of thorns;
Every breath is a wedding band
You could roll your eyes
You could play for time
You could weep the sun light down
Won't you kiss me quick while you still can;
And we'll find a night with you

We'll build our house in a field of gold;
And the mountains tumbling down
And blocks the road

We'll turn each rock into a stepping stone;
And fumble around the failing stars
On the way back home

Kiss me quick while you still can
I'll atone for the wicked truth
Every Autumn takes what the summer makes
And we will to the living proof
You could pull the tide;
Build a wall inside;
You could drift and draw like milk

Won't you kiss me quick;
While you still you still can and
I'll meet you inside me

Kiss me quick while you still can
Kiss me quick while you still can
Kiss me quick while you still can

 

[fox69]

"Know The Wild That Wants You"
(with Jesca Hoop)

"Know The Wild That Wants You"
(with Jesca Hoop)



When you were boy you stuck
Your thumb inside the light, inside the light
Morning bottle warm
Holy compass ready you would run into the wild
Gathered in its arms
(In its arms)
(In its arms)
When you're in the city you're
A tangled native tongue
Another tongue eating fear for free
Know the wild that wants you
Know you're not another pillow on
A gun drifting off to sleep
And come home
And come home
Hear your own bones say "Heal yourself, yourself"
Hear your own heart moan
"Love yourself, yourself"
When you were a girl salt was
Beading down your back
And all the braves were tangled in your hair
Candy for lips and for your love
All you were given was a bruise
Falling down the stairs
When you're in the city and its talking to itself, to itself
Stealing what you sing
Know the wild that wants you
When the sun is underground
And park police are laughing off your leaves
Hear your own bones say "Heal yourself, yourself"
Hear your own heart moan
"love yourself, yourself and come home"

 

[fox69]

"Last Night"

"Last Night"


It's all that we do, it's all we don't
Breathe deep beneath others' tear
Let them rumble and come when they come, they'll always
It's our last night to lie in these arms
Last night to lie in these arms
Last night to lie in these arms
As they're giving the wind all it wants
Turn after turn till we're lost
And there's what we believe in the limbs of hometown trees
When we let go, the disappearance
It's our last night to lie in these arms
Last night to lie in these arms
Last night to lie in these arms
As they're finding our clothes behind the door
Dreaming the light in our dark house
The sound of our house and cars passing by
It's our last night to lie in these arms
Last night to lie in these arms
Last night to lie in these arms

 

[fox69]

"Lion's Mane"

"Lion's Mane"


Run like a race for family
When you hear like you're alone
The rusted gears of morning
To faceless busy phones
We gladly run in circles
But the shape we meant to make is gone
Love is a tired symphony
You hum when you're awake
Love is a crying baby
Mama warned you not to shake
Love is the best sensation
Hiding in the lion's mane
So I'll clear the road, the gravel
And the thornbush in your path
That burns a scented oil
That I'll drip into your bath
The water's there to warm you
And the earth is warmer
When you laugh
Love is a scene I render
When you catch me wide awake
Love's a dream you enter
Though I shake and shake and shake you
Love is the best endeavor
Waiting in the lion's mane

 

[fox69]

"Loretta"

"Loretta"


Look at the shadow on our trees
Seems to mean an early dusk
Loretta looked up, the grey sky low
Two-by-two on the bus

Water and anger in our house
Though she spoke of rainbows
Reachin' the roof with soakin' shoes
River's up, where'd she go?

You're wiser, oh Loretta
You're wiser, and only twenty-five

During the TV floatin' by
Through our room and out the door
Loretta, she prayed for what to do
If it rained any more

She was a wash-cloth wet with love
I was not, she was mine
I'm in the olive tree next door
River's up to my eyes

You're wiser, oh Loretta
Much wiser, and only just in time

 

[fox69]

"Loud As Hope"

"Loud As Hope"


Darling behave, though your boy is gone, or so we've heard
Ophelia would rise if it was her song and say these words
"Summer comes with its color all to take your breath away
Winter turns all the summer's love to gray"

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ah, ah, ah, ah

Darling behave, though the barnyard won't say where he's gone
Ophelia would sing if the orchard let her what went wrong
"Summer comes, yeah, as loud as hope and takes your breath away
Winter takes what the summer had to say"