Laulunsanoja:
Iron Wine

I am thinking it's a sign That the freckles in our eyes are mirror images And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned And I have to speculate That God

Be this sunset soon forgotten Your brothers left here shaved and crazy We've learned to hide our bottles in the well And what's worth keeping, sun

He kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill She'll never love him but knows that her father will Her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but

I knew you well, I know you best A baby mouth, denied the breast A lazy bone, an eagle eye Circling a city that's higher than the sky And it's looking

A 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

Last I saw mother, she rose from a chair When they caught me I just finished combing my hair Because the rabbit will run but a colt doesn't long with

Godless brother in love you might as well Lay down that rose and fold the flag She is money and tabs that broken freedom in See her big children burning

Mr.Henry and the muscle man Gave her shoes on a night there was no room to stand And like a letter in a stolen purse She was bored of her weight, she

Me and Lazarus, we shovel all the ashes out Black bare linens blowing 'round Back and forth and up and down Guess I had nowhere else to go Me and Lazarus