( the sweetest of the wolves, of course )( playlist )
YOUR HAND IN MIND (w/STRINGS) ♔ EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
Click to view( I N S T R U M E N T A L )
THE SERVICE BELL ♔ GRIZZLY BEAR (feat. FEIST)
I keep a service bell by my bed for you | Let the others do what they do | I will hold on | Hold on | Hold on | Hold on | Hold on | I keep a service bell by my bed for you
BETWEEN THE BARS ♔ ELLIOT SMITH
Drink up baby, stay up all night | With the things you could do | You won't but you might | The potential you'll be that you'll never see | The promises you'll only make | Drink up with me now | And forget all about the pressure of days | Do what I say and I'll make you okay | And drive them away | The images stuck in your head | The people you've been before | That you don't want around anymore | That push and shove and won't bend to your will | I'll keep them still | Drink up baby, look at the stars | I'll kiss you again between the bars | Where I'm seeing you there with your hands in the air | Waiting to finally be caught | Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine | Keep you apart, deep in my heart | Separate from the rest, where I like you the best | And keep the things you forgot
DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE ♔ THE CIVIL WARS
Dance me to your beauty like a burning violin | Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in | Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove | And dance me to the end of love | Please dance me to the end of love | Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone | Oh let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon | Oh show me slowly what I only know the limits of | And dance me to the end of love | Please dance me to the end of love
DEEP BLUE ♔ THE ARCADE FIRE
Here | Are my place and time | And here in my own skin | I can finally begin | Let the century pass me by | Standing under night sky | Tomorrow means nothing | I was only a child then | Feeling barely alive when | I heard a song from the speaker of a passing car | And prayed to a dying star | The memory's fading | I can almost remember singing | La, la la, la la la la | La la, la la, la la la la
ASHLEY ♔ THE DODOS
Take my hand and lead me out | To Dolores | And leave me out in the street, I guess | It was for us | What are you thinking of, Ashley? | Who are you dreaming of, Ashley? | You come down from above, Ashley. | You let me sleep and let me breathe | Where I need to | And fool my heart to think that I | Might have had you | Take this hammer-handed heart | And pull it off my back | Heavy on my shoulders | Stranded in the open sea | I wait there hoping that | You'll come back to see me
ORPHANS ♔ FOREST CITY LOVERS
we were 16 | only 16 | so unprepared | left in the wilds of adolescence | and no less scared | an awkward boy | an awkward girl | what could be better | than laying in this bed feeling slightly less awkward together | the city lights erase the night | while we fester indoors | throw back the shades to erase | the lines that we abhor | an orphan boy | an orphan girl | what could be better | than laying in this bed feeling slightly more | remembered together
A KING AND A QUEEN ♔ OKKERVIL RIVER
If you want to see and be seen, then be seen | Your dress is dark red and your opening eyes are bright green | Make a scene, but don’t lie on the bed | laid out like you’re dead, because honey, you’re murdering me | Be a little sheep learning who’ll shear and who’ll feed | The hands come and they leave | Be hands holding a knife | Be a being on two feet, with his heart trembling | butchering for a king he believes in though he’s never seen | Be the princess in that stone tower | crying for that handsome butcher’s plight | and, as some princess might, she still calls him a knight.
THE LION'S ROAR ♔ FIRST AID KIT
Now the pale morning sings of forgotten things | She plays a tune for those who wish to overlook | The fact that they've been blindly deceived | By those who preach and pray and teach | But she falls short and the night explodes in laughter | But don't you come here and say I didn't warn you | About the way your world can alter | And oh how you try to command it all still | Every single time it all shifts one way or the other | And I'm a goddamn coward, but then again so are you | And the lion's roar, the lion's roar | Has me evading and hollering for you | And I never really knew what to do | Sometimes I wish I could find my Rosemary Hill | I'd sit there and look at the deserted lakes and I'd sing | And every once in a while I'd sing a song for you | That would rise above the mountains and the stars and the sea | And if I wanted it to it would lead you back to me | And the lion's roar, the lion's roar | Is something that I have heard before | A children's tale, the lonesome wail of a lion's roar
DON'T LET YOUR HAIR GROW TOO LONG ♔ OREN LAVIE
Don't let your hair grow too long | Leave your yellow raincoat on | Don't get wet | But don't get warm | Don't change the time on your watch | Always reach, but never touch | Stay a picture on the wall | Don't let your step grow too bold | Don't let your hands go too cold | Don't forget, but don't recall | Keep the distance in your stare | Hold your step up in the air | Always near but never there | And stay a picture on the wall
OFF I GO ♔ GREG LASWELL
Loose ends they tangle down | And then take flight | But never tie me down | Never tie me down | Off I go | Where I fall | Is where I land | Off I go | Where I fall | Is where I land
DOUBT ♔ WYE OAK
If you should doubt | My heart | Remember this | That I would lie to you | If I believed it was | Right to do | If you should think | Instead | I would forget | All the lives I save | Were not meant for me | And meant for you | That would be the test | I could not forgive | Only that | To doubt the only way | That what was true before | Is true today | What I have learned | Of you | Does not assure | You bow before my will | But I believed it then | Believe it still
COSMOGONY (harp rendition) ♔ BJÖRK
( I N S T R U M E N T A L )
TERRIBLE LOVE (alt. version) ♔ THE NATIONAL
It's a terrible love | That I'm walking with spiders | It's a terrible love that I'm walking with | It's a terrible love | That I'm walking with spiders | It's a terrible love that I'm walking with | It's quiet company | It's quiet company | And I can't fall asleep | Without a little help | It takes awhile | To settle down | My ship of hopes | Until the past leaks out | It takes an ocean not to break | It takes an ocean not to break | It takes an ocean not to break | Company | It's quite a company | It's quiet company | But I | Won't follow you | Into the rabbit hole | I said I would | But then I saw | The ship of woes | They didn't want me to | It's a terrible love | And I'm walking with spiders | It's a terrible love that I'm walking here | It's a terrible love | That I'm walking with spiders | It's a terrible love that I'm walking here | It takes an ocean not to break | It takes an ocean not to break | It takes an ocean not to break