Through My Prayers The Avett Brothers

Hard to believe I won't see you again We were just fighting when winter began The coldness of our words competing with the wind from the north Still they make me shiver but in a very different way The

Paul Newman Vs. The Demons The Avett Brothers

You may have to drag me away from my demons Kicking and screaming It's been so long now, I've been with them Don't know where they stop and I begin We draw a line in the sand Will you cross it

Pretty Girl From Matthews (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

you're still mine While I was gone yes I fell in love Asked around and heard that you did too Two drunken years and push came to shove I met love love left me blue You're rising like a sun That pulled the

Laser Pants The Avett Brothers

Seth Avett: Fire laser pants at will. Scott Avett: Fire laser pants at will? Seth Avett: I will try. Scott Avett: Don't get 'em mixed up with your lazy pants.

Talk On Indolence (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Well I've been lockin' myself up in my house for sometime now Readin' and writin' and readin' and thinkin' And searching for reasons and missing the seasons The Autumn the Spring the Summer the snow The

No Hard Feelings The Avett Brothers

When my body won't hold me anymore And it finally lets me free Will I be ready When my feet won't walk another mile And my lips give their last kiss goodbye Will my hands be steady When I lay down my fears

And It Spread The Avett Brothers

There was light in the room. Then you left and it was through. Then the frost started in my toes and fingertips. and it spread and it spread into my heart.

All My Mistakes The Avett Brothers

Shooting off vicious collections of words The losers make facts by the things they have heard And I find myself trying hard to defend them I made decisions some right and some wrong And I let some love

Live And Die The Avett Brothers

All it'll take is just one moment and You can say goodbye to how we had it planned Fear like a habit, run like a rabbit, out and away Through the screen door to the unknown And I want to love you

The Ballad Of Love And Hate (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Love writes a letter and sends it to hate My vacations ending I'm coming home late The weather was fine and the ocean was great and I can't wait to see you again Hate reads the letter and throws it away

Letter To A Pretty Girl The Avett Brothers

Hey, hey, Carla It's a long way to Missouri From this highway East of Roanoke We had a moment That felt like summer Now in slumber I can see your smile We drive for miles Through corporate Ohio Rest stops

February Seven The Avett Brothers

I went on the search for something true I was almost there when I found you Sooner than my fate was wrote A perfect blade, it slit my throat And beads of lust released in to the air When I awoke you

May It Last The Avett Brothers

There is a sea, and I am a captain Of something unknown, waves high as mountains There is a key, and there is a lie Here's to times that I catch it May it last through the night I'm as low as they come

The Once And Future Carpenter The Avett Brothers

a carpenter and man my hands were calloused I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight But I took to the highway a poet young and hungry And I left the timbers where they lay Forever I will move like

Slight Figure Of Speech The Avett Brothers

They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting They say that this is where the fun begins I guess it's time that I was quitting A slight figure of speech I

Salvation Song The Avett Brothers

If you take my heart Don't leave the smallest part I've no need to live if you're to come up gone An as my life turns to a song And if and when I treat you wrong No I never want to hurt our family And

Salvation Song (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

If you take my heart Don't leave the smallest part I've no need to live if you're to come up gone An as my life turns to a song And if and when I treat you wrong No I never want to hurt our family And

Ten Thousand Words The Avett Brothers

Ten thousand words swarm around my head Ten million more in books written beneath my bed I wrote or read them all when searchin’ in the swarms Still can’t find out how to hold my hands And I know you need

You Are Mine The Avett Brothers

You are mine The edge I need when I am out of line The air I breathe when I believe I'm dying I guess you are there It is told With age our hearts are destined to grow cold Well I won't argue that but

Ain't No Man The Avett Brothers

There ain't no man can't save me There ain't no man can't enslave me Ain't no man, a man that can change the shape my soul is in There ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear Cause I got

Pretty Girl From Michigan The Avett Brothers

You gave your heart away like that I didn’t want to fall in love with anyone but you dear I can still hear the song, the melody behind the kiss you gave me You were wrong, I was right so I walked away

Victims Of Life The Avett Brothers

Victims of cycles, victims of life Victims of wrong, victims of right Victims of anything, and all the above Victims of hate, victims of love Victims of hate, victims of love If you're rich, you're hungry

When I Drink (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

When I drink I say things I don't want to say I do things I don't wanna do I talk mean to you But if I think I just might get something out of this My parents taught me to learn when I miss Just do your

Kick Drum Heart The Avett Brothers

The footprints over the snow the fabric of all the lonely C Covering only the fables and hands the rest is out in the cold holding the last of the seas F F F freezin' Yeah My my my heart like a

Kick Drum Heart (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

The footprints over the snow the fabric of all the lonely C Covering only the fables and hands the rest is out in the cold holding the last of the season F F F freezin' Yeah My my my heart like a kick

Satan Pulls The Strings The Avett Brothers

Baby's in the cradle, Mama's in the bed Sparrow's on the windowsill and the devil's in my head Devil's in my head mama, devil's in my head Baby's in the cradle and the devil's in my head When the winter

The Traveling Song The Avett Brothers

Well I guess if my daddy hadn't brought me up Down a long dirt road in a pickup truck I'd feel alright, 'neath the city lights Couldn't leave the city lights it just ain't right I was born out west of

Winter In My Heart The Avett Brothers

It must be winter in my heart There\'s nothing warm in there at all I missed the summer and the spring The floating yellow leaves of fall A million colors fill my eyes The roman candles and the stars

I Killed Sally's Lover The Avett Brothers

Somebody get my shotgun Somebody get my blade Sally's been layin' with another man And he's sleeping in my place Somebody get my shotgun Gonna shoot him sure as rain You can run as fast as you want to

I Killed Sally's Lover (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Somebody get my shotgun Somebody get my blade Sally's been layin' with another man And he's sleeping in my place Somebody get my shotgun Gonna shoot him sure as rain You can run as fast as you want to

Murder In The City (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

If I get murdered in the city Don’t go revengin in my name One person dead from such is plenty No need to go get locked away When I leave your arms The things that I think of No need to get over alarmed

I And Love And You The Avett Brothers

Load the car and write the note Grab your bag and grab your coat Tell the ones that need to know We are headed north One foot in and one foot back But it don't pay to live like that So I cut the

I And Love And You (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Load the car and write the note Grab your bag and grab your coat Tell the ones that need to know We are headed north One foot in and one foot back But it don't pay to live like that So I cut the ties and

Please Pardon Yourself The Avett Brothers

As I turn my head to your side of the bed While you wake, What's on your mind?

Down With The Shine The Avett Brothers

Down with the shine the perfect shine That poisons the well and ruins my mind I get took for a ride every time Down with the glistening shine It's in with the new and out with the old Out goes the warm

Smithsonian The Avett Brothers

Call the Smithsonian I made a discovery Life ain't forever and lunch isn't free Loved ones will break your heart with or without you Turns out we don't get to know everything Get the young scientists,

A Fathers First Spring The Avett Brothers

The sweetest surrender of winter She put up a flag it is waving The thunder of summer is rumbling in And I haven't seen you in days And my how that feeling has changed Oh I have been homesick for you since

It Goes On And On The Avett Brothers

I lost my fear in your arms I lost my tears in your car I lost my will in your candle lit eyes And all my love in your yard Baby would you leave me if you knew that I was making it up And underneath the

A Gift For Melody Anne The Avett Brothers

I wanna get back I wanna get square I wanna get back on the hopes and dreams that I had That the good lord above us can spare Like that actor said I don't wanna lose heart I don't wanna get beat beat down

Paranoia In B Major (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

I keep tellin’ myself that it’ll be fine You can’t make everybody happy all of the time I found myself in a place that I never been A place that I thought that I would never be There’s people looking back

Wanted Man The Avett Brothers

Till I became a wanted man, I never owned a gun, But now they hunt me like a mountain cat, And I'm always, always, always on the run I killed poor Jed Bryant In a bad Laredo fight, Killed him with my bare

Incomplete And Insecure The Avett Brothers

i haven't finished a thing since i started my life i don't feel much like starting now walking down lonely has worked like a charm i'm the only one i have to let down but watching you makes me think that

Tin Man The Avett Brothers

you can't be like me but be happy that you can't I see pain but I don't feel it I am like the old tin man I'm as worn as a stone I keep it steady as I can I see pain but I don't feel it I am like

Distraction #74 (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

I was in love with your beauty from the day you walked my way Oh how I wish that was enough to have made me want to stay See I'm as true as I try to be and I must say my girl I tried the best to give to

Pretty Girl From Annapolis The Avett Brothers

Oh don't you look at me that way I would be honest but I don't know how to say I've been lazy with my love Can't you give me a chance to make it up to you I'm always chasing some far off dream My lady

Do You Love Him The Avett Brothers

Do you love him, my dear? Does he hold you? Does he hug you? Does he keep you near? And as you lie together, does he whisper in your ear? Do you love him? Do you love him? Do you love him, my dear?

Shame (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Okay so I was wrong about My reasons for us fallin' out Of love I want to fall back in My life is different now I swear I know now what it means to care About somebody other than myself I know the things

Nothing Short Of Thankful The Avett Brothers

How I need (rest) One more day of travel on the road. How we've been (blessed) Some times I don't feel that way. Nothing's gonna change my mind, I'm walkin' a different highway.

Smoke In Our Lights The Avett Brothers

You're not a girl, you're a town You're snow on the ground You're my first year in school You're the words in a song that Hoon sang to me And all around my memories, you dance You're not a girl, you're

Swept Away The Avett Brothers

Well you send my life a whirling Darling when you're twirling On the floor Who cares about tomorrow? What more is tomorrow? Than another day.