Mark Lanegan

[fox69]

"Dry Iced"

"Dry Iced"



I’m sorry
Will these dirty streets absolve their animal
Through the floor in defeat
The sun and stars should fall
Walking, aimlessly walking
Walking around
I hear the shadows talking
Blue ‘cause they’re talking
Talking me down

Speeding in a long black car
From here to Babylon
Heart black like tar
And all my veins are full
Dreaming, ceaselessly dreaming
And not asleep
Screaming, I hear somebody screaming
And I’m down too deep

Crying on a midnight wire
All dry icicle stoned
I set the fields on fire
And still my hands are cold
Echo, in the chamber an echo
Echoing on
In danger, the alien stranger
To eternity’s gone

I’m sorry
Will these city streets absolve their animal
To the dirt in defeat
The sun and stars should fall
Walking, aimlessly walking
Walking around
Talking
Blue shadows talking
Talking me down
I’m sorry
I’m sorry

 

[fox69]

"Dusty Wreath"

"Dusty Wreath"



Oh dusty wreath
Your loving was everything
Oh dusty wreath
Your loving was everything to me

 

[fox69]

"El Sol"

"El Sol"


The sun is gone, and that's all I really know
No angels in the air
With hearts as good as gold
The closer you stand to the gates
The more the gates are closed

These darkened days
Make somebody's hunger and thirst
The blessed burns the sun
He's throwin' shadows on the earth
The shadow you find at the gate
And all the gates are closed
Oh yeah

Anytime you find your race is run
Felt much colder standin' in the sun
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older than I really was
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down

The sun is gone, yeah that's all I really know
No angels in the air
With hearts as good as gold
The closer you stand to the gates
The more the gates are closed

Anytime you find your race is run
Felt much colder standin' in the sun
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older than I really was
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down
Felt much older standin' in the sun'
Waitin' for some warmth and comin' down [repeat]

 

[fox69]

"Élégie Funèbre"
(originally by Gérard Manset)

"Élégie Funèbre"
(originally by Gérard Manset)



Couvrez-moi de fleurs s'il le faut.
Laissez venir l'homme à la faux
Et si me coudre les paupières
Au moins ne me riez derrière
Moi.

Laissez me parler à l'oreille
Et faire miel de moi l'abeille
Et dans mon ombre, laissez vivre,
Quand bien même le bateau ivre
Sombre.

Croyez-moi, dans ce monde-ci,
Jamais on ne m'a dit merci.
Où que ce fut, où que ce soit,
Qui que ce fut, qui que ce soit,
S'en fut.

C'est pour ma chair fragile et morte
Que je prie de vous de la sorte
Qu'on ne m'ait pas en terre admis
Sans que l'on y descende aussi...

Que reste ici de mon passé
Dans ce caveau frais repassé
L'habit de noce et le carton
De ma langue et de mon menton
L'os.

L'ongle à peine de désigner
Faisant main comme l'araignée,
Les yeux se taisent et la cornée
Dessous l'arcade cimentée
Pèse.

Couronnez-moi de fleurs mauves
Si voyez que ma vie se sauve
Et des ténèbres ayez raison,
Lirez lumières de l'oraison
Funèbre.

Prenez soin de moi si pouvez,
Faites de vos bouches un ave,
Que Dieu le dépose ou l'apporte
S'il fut seul au pied de ma porte
Close.

Couvrez moi de fleurs s'il le faut.
Couvrez moi de fleurs s'il le faut...

 

[fox69]

"Eyes Of A Child"

"Eyes Of A Child"


See through the eyes of a child
And it won't be real
Eyes neither hateful or cruel
No lies conceal
Eyes that wander, eyes that strayed
While the shame in your heart
Remains

Cryin' were the eyes of a child
In pain, tonight
Tears that I bled on you
From the heart of an angel of fear, tonight
We can wander, we could stray
But the shame remains

See through the eyes of a child
And it won't be real
I have loved your eyes
Neither hateful or cruel
No lies conceal
We could wander, we could stray
But the shame, has remained
Has remained
It has remained

 

[fox69]

"Field Song"

"Field Song"



Let's walk down to the water
There's hyacinth in bloom
I spend my days
Lovin' you
I left these fields
Because I never knew
To be a horse
To be a train
I wouldn't have the heart
And next to the tracks
You find an apple cart
Maybe we'll stay at home
And be together no more to move alone
Together no more to move alone
See the water It's mixed with light
For you I've been shaken
Regarding the fields
Humbly mistaken

 

[fox69]

"Fix"

"Fix"


Fix
It's true
Keeps on rainin' baby
All crystalline
Your word in my head
Gonna watch from the balcony
Sing backwards and we
Fix
It's true
Keeps on raining baby
There's no explainin' baby
Gonna drive that terraplane
Across the frozen ocean
We've always been together and it's good
Love will be what's hidden
In every single fragment
I look and I fly
A flower born from you
And I am joined with you
And adorned with you
Fix
It's true
Gonna keep raining baby
Oh yeah yeah yes
And it's you that I'm missing
Won't come up missing
Well I'm torn from you
Want to be reborn with you
[?]
Fix It's true
Keeps on rainin' baby
Keeps on rainin' baby
Drive that terraplane
Down into the ocean
We've always been together
And it's good
Got no need for shelter
Everything's forgotten
All is forgiven and understood
A flower born from you
Reborn in you
And adorned baby
When I am joined with you
Fix
It's true
Keeps on rainin' baby
Keeps on rainin' baby

 

[fox69]

"Flatlands"
(originally by Chelsea Wolfe)

"Flatlands"
(originally by Chelsea Wolfe)



I want flatlands
I never cared about money and all its friends
I want flatlands
I want flatlands
I don't want precious stones
I never cared about anything you've ever owned
I want flatlands
I want simplicity
I need your arms wrapped hard around me
I want open plains and scattered trees
I want flower fields
I want salty seas
I want flatlands soft and steady breeze
bringing scents of lined-up orchard trees
dripping heavy with pears and dancing leaves
I want flatlands will you go there with me
when it's said in the dark and you know it's always there
when it's dead in our heart but your mind is unafraid
when it's said in the dark and you know it's never coming back
when it's there in your heart in your mind you set it free

 

[fox69]

"Floor Of The Ocean"

"Floor Of The Ocean"



Hard times, walking in the sunshine
Crawling through a landslide
Guilty of some old crimes
Clear eyes, can’t avoid the searchlight
Hope that they don’t find me
Find me where I’m lying

Scars, bone and blood
Iron, clay and mud
Can I find my way
Can I mine my way
Through the core of emotion

Dumpsite, out along the roadside
Look into the cold sky
Look into your mind’s eye
Midnight, can’t escape the searchlight
Hope that they don’t catch me
Catch me where I’m riding

Scars, bone and blood
Iron, clay and mud
Gonna find my way
Gonna mine my way
Through the floor of the ocean

Hard times, walking in the sunshine
Crawling through a landslide
Guilty of some old crimes
Clear eyes, can’t avoid the searchlight
Hope that they don’t find me
Find me where I’m lying

Scars, bone and blood
Iron, clay and mud
Can I find my way
Can I mine my way
Through the core of emotion
Scars, bone and blood
Iron, clay and mud
Gonna find my way
Gonna mine my way
Through the floor of the ocean

 

[fox69]

"Gray Goes Black"

"Gray Goes Black"



Don't you turn off my radio
Please don't turn off my radio
Not with the rope still swinging
While eternity's mouth is singing

So insect I'm in amber
Days go by please don't forget
Uneven, so enamored
Days go by remember that

Gray goes black

Can't you hear my radio?
Don't you hear my radio?
Not with the beast still sleeping
While eternity's eyes are weeping

So insect I'm in amber
Days go by please don't forget
Uneven, so enamored
Days go by remember that

Gray goes black

Into the blood we sink and burn
Gray goes black