( songs are like birds )( playlist )
CIVILIAN ♔ WYE OAK
Click to viewI am nothing without pretend | I know my thoughts | Can't live with them | I am nothing without a man | I know my thoughts | But I can't hide them | I still keep my baby teeth | In the bedside table with my jewelry | You still sleep in the bed with me, my jewelry, and my baby teeth | I don't need another friend | When most of them | I can barely keep up with them | Perfectly able to hold my own hand | But I still can't kiss my own neck | I wanted to give you everything | But I still stand in awe of superficial things | I wanted to love you like my mother's mother's mothers did | Civilian | Civilian
GAETA'S LAMENT ♔ BEAR McCREARY
Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man | with my three wishes clutched in her hand | The first that she be spared the pain | that comes from a dark and laughing rain | when she finds love may it always stay true | this I beg for the second wish I may too | but wish no more | my life you can take | to have her please just one day wake | to have her please just one day wake | to have her please just one day wake
GLASS ♔ BATS FOR LASHES
I will rise now | And go about the city | In the street's | Broadways I seek | Him whom my soul loveth | Went over the sea | What did I find? | A thousand crystal towers | A hundred emerald cities | And the hand of the watchman | In the night sky | Points to my beloved | A knight in crystal armour | And I tried to hold him | I tried for the creed | I'll make a suit of colours | To stop the blinding mirrors | Sew a cape of red and gold | Stifle up the being | With the perfect armour | With a perfect dream | To be made of glass | When two suns are shining | The battle becomes blinding | To be made of glass | But we ride tonight, tonight, tonight, we ride
TURN THE DIRT OVER ♔ SEA WOLF
Come closer to the window frame | Window to the dark and the field of snow | I saw you running like summer flame | Running through the grass, turning gold to black | Oh! turn the dirt over | If you wanna grow back | Oh! open up the shutters | See the moon light on the snow | You left your brother in a northern town | Took the ferry o'er the water on the bay | His body covered by the colors going down | The statue in the square before the wind could change | Oh! turn the water over | If you wanna flow down | Oh! open up the shutters | See the fallen snow | Fallen snow
CALGARY ♔ BON IVER
don't you cherish me to sleep | never keep your eyelids clipped | hold me for the pops and clicks | I was only for the father's crib | hair, old, long along | your neck onto your shoulder blades | always keep that message taped | cross your breasts you won't erase | I was only for your very space | joy, it's all founded | pincher with the skin inside | you pinned me with your black sphere eyes | you know that all the rope's untied | I was only for to die beside | so itʼs storming on the lake | little waves our bodies break | there's a fire going out | but there's really nothing to the south | swollen orange and light let through | your one piece swimmer stuck to you | sold, I'm Ever | open ears and open eyes | wake up to your starboard bride | who goes in and then stays inside | oh the demons come, they can subside
PRISCILLA AHN ♔ DREAM
I was a little girl | Alone in my little world | Who dreamed of a little home for me | I played pretend between the trees | And fed my houseguests bark and leaves | And laughed in my pretty bed of green | I had a dream | That I could fly | From the highest swing | I had a dream | Long walks in the dark | Through woods grown behind the park | I asked God who I'm supposed to be | The stars smiled down at me | God answered in silent reverie | I said a prayer and fell asleep | I had a dream | That I could fly | From the highest tree | I had a dream
LAY YOUR HEARTBREAK ♔ WINTERPILLS
lay your broken body down | lay your heartbreak | everything is gonna change | everything is wrong | wrong people are being loved | wrong ones dying | wrong ones always take control | have you heard from her today? | you could make me feel so good | if you’d come here and cry | you’d make me feel so good | if you’d come here and cry | you’d make me feel so good | she may never take the cure | she’s been through that | she would rather not be pure | than to be alone
THAT'S OKAY ♔ THE HUSH SOUND
You were a child who was made of glass. | You carried a black heart passed down from your dad. | If somebody loved you, they'd tell you by now; | We all turn away when you're down. | You want to go back to where you felt safe, | To hear your brother's laughter, | See your mother's face. | Your childhood home is just powder-white bones | And you'll never find your way back. | And when you're gone, will they say your name? | And when you're gone, will they love you the same? | If not, that's okay. | If not, that's okay. | You are broken and callow, | Cautious and safe; | You are boundless in beauty | With fright in your face. | Until someone loves you, | I'll keep you safe, | But like them, I will give you away.
WHO WILL LOVE ME NOW ♔ PJ HARVEY
In the forest, is a monster | It has done terrible things | So in the wood, it's hiding | And this is the song it sings | Who will love me now? | Who will ever love me? | Who will say to me | "You are my desire, I set you free?" | Who will forgive and make me live again? | Who will bring me back to the world again? | In the forest, is a monster | And it looks so very much like me Will someone hear me singing? | Please save me, please rescue me
MAKE UP ♔ PSAPP
Eat up your shame | You did not choose to be this way | These names live on your lips | But you cant help how bloodlines slip | I could never fall for an empty page anyway | I wouldn't like it | You cant haggle with your mother | You cannot choose her love, oh no | Come and fight your corner | Theres no one doing it for you | There would be nobody if we all stayed all alone | I wouldnt like it
THE ROAD ♔ NICK CAVE and WARREN ELLIS
( I N S T R U M E N T A L )
TRAIN SONG ♔ BEN GIBBARD (ft. FEIST)
Nothing at all, in my head, to say to you | Only the beat of the train I'm on | Nothing I've learned all my life on the way to you | One day our love was over and gone | It's so many miles and so long since I've met you | Don't even know what I'll say when I get to you | But suddenly now, I know where I belong | It's many hundred miles and it won't be long | What will I do if there's someone there with you | Maybe someone you've always known | How do I know I can come and give to you | Love with no warning and find you alone
MOTHER, I'M HERE ♔ the BASTION ost
I set my sail | fly the wind it will take me | back to my home, sweet home | Lie on my back | clouds are making way for me | I'm coming home, sweet home | I see your star you left it burning for me | Mother, I'm here | Eyes open wide | feel your heart and it's glowing | I'm welcome home, sweet home | I take your hand | now you'll never be lonely | not when I'm home, sweet home | I see your star, you left it burning for me | Mother, I'm here
NEW MOON (THE MEADOW) ♔ ALEXANDRE DESPLAT
( I N S T R U M E N T A L )
MY BODY IS A CAGE ♔ PETER GABRIEL
My body is a cage | that keeps me from dancing | with the one I love | but my mind holds the key | I'm standing on a stage | of fear and self-doubt | it's a hollow play | but they'll clap anyway | My body is a cage | that keeps me from dancing | with the one I love | but my mind holds the key | my mind holds the key | My mind holds the key | I'm living in an age | that calls darkness light | though my language is dead | still the shapes fill my head | I'm living in an age | whose name I don't know | though the fear keeps me moving | still my heart beats so slow | My body is a cage | we take what we are given | just because you've forgotten | doesn't mean you're forgiven
SHAKE IT OUT ♔ FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
(the Weeknd REMIX)
Regrets collect like old friends | Here to relive your darkest moments | I can see no way, I can see no way | And all of the ghouls come out to play | And every demon wants his pound of flesh | But I like to keep some things to myself | I like to keep my issues strong | It's always darkest before the dawn | And I've been a fool and I've been blind | I can never leave the past behind | I can see no way, I can see no way | I'm always dragging that horse around | I am done with my graceless heart | So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart | Cause I like to keep my issues strong | It's always darkest before the dawn | And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back | So shake him off
DO I HAVE POWER ♔ TIMBER TIMBRE
In a movement of a thousand helping hands | I am not beyond the saccharine of sycophantic rants | In a moment of a wilderness exposed | Is this lack of wisdom better than a charismatic soul | And I'm bringing up blue horse meat thinking that I've lost control | Do I have power Do I have power Do I have power over it | Do I have power Do I have power Do I have any power over it
BOY WITH A COIN ♔ IRON and WINE
Boy with a coin he found in the weeds | with bullets and pages of trade magazines | close to a car that flipped on the turn | when God left the ground to circle the world | Girl with a bird she found in the snow | that flew up her gown, and that's how she knows | that God made her eyes for crying at birth | then left the ground to circle the earth
AWAKEN ♔ DARIO MARIANELLI
( I N S T R U M E N T A L )
ROCKS and WATER ♔ DEB TALAN
Seven times I went down | six times I walked back. | And I don't fear the dark anymore | 'cause I'm become all that. | I will be rocks, I will be water. | I will leave this to my daughter: | lift your head up in the wind. | When you feel yourself grow colder | wrap the night around your shoulders | and I will be with you even then | even when I cannot see your face anymore. | Don't forget the time | I wooed him with red wine. | The devil he wore such a fine, fine shirt | and it stayed so clean while he dragged me through the dirt. | Now, honey, don't trust anyone who looks you in the eye | don't take any kindness, it's a demand in disguise.
WOMAN KING ♔ IRON and WINE
Blackbird claw, raven wing | Under the red sunlight | Long clothesline, two shirtsleeves | Waving as we go by | Hundred years, hundred more | Someday we may see | A woman king | Wristwatch time | Slowin' as she goes to sleep | Black horsefly, lemonade | Jar on the red anthill | Garden worm, cigarette | Ash on the windowsill | Hundred years, hundred more | Someday we may see | A woman king | Sword in hand | Swing at some evil and bleed
APRÉS MOI ♔ REGINA SPEKTOR
I must go on standing | You can't break that which isn't yours | I must go on standing | I'm not my own, it's not my choice | Be afraid of the lame | They'll inherit your legs | Be afraid of the old | They'll inherit your souls | Be afraid of the cold | They'll inherit your blood | Apres moi, le deluge | After me comes the flood | Февраль. Достать чернил и плакать! | Писать о феврале навзрыд | Пока грохочущая слякоть | Весною черною горит.