Rooks Shearwater

When the rooks were laid in piles by the sides of the road Crashing into the aerials tangled in the laundry line And gathered in a field they were burned in a feathering pyre With their cold, black eyes

Kind Shearwater

baby hands in you lap you touch your wounds so much they'll never heal. and i fear you'll turn you back on just the kind of love you really need to feel baby i love your lauh and everything yo...

My Good Deed Shearwater

i tried to save a girl i truly loved and didn't quite know how to help her. so now she's sleeping as her parents up above cry over things that they can't hell her. and when i did my good deed i...

A Hush Shearwater

There was a hush inside the air, when you were lying on the stair, feeling the world had scattered, there, like little feathers on the air. and as the people filed away, the men in suits of bl...

World in 1984 Shearwater

wen our column advanced, and we saw what we'd done, we were suere that we could never tell the folks back home, say my father to me i had just turned sixteen, and we were walking from my schoo...

Sealed Shearwater

feel the hooks in my skin; i set every one myself. and if you pull them all taut, i will turn to someone else. was that what you asked? pour the wax in my mouth, and then seal the place inside...

Whipping Boy Shearwater

if i told you once, then i told you twice that i would have paid just about any price, just to see him jump just to see him laugh, i would have washed in the blood of an innocent man. let the ...

Convert Shearwater

i forgot i was loving you disappeared for an hour or two. and i cam to on a cold wood floor and didn't feel so good anymore. now we clasp our hands and we make demands at the clouds (are sayin...

Makeover Shearwater

it's like a makerover when the filming's over and she doesn't know how to fix it so that it'll stay and she can't figure out how to tease out her hair that way herself. and when she wakes up al...

TheSet Table Shearwater

your warm sweater you torn letters they're all that matters. at the window watching the elegant traffic - it's all fantastic. and when you find these things that make you shine, don't let them...

Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine Shearwater

went to see the new baby, and we smoked weed on the back porch. and lying on my back with the pool floatie "raining blood"just thundering forth, i said, "what do you say your par...

(I've Got A) Right to Cry Shearwater

when will they remove the tourniquet? is the operation over yet? will you calm down, sir, will you calm down? i can hear the generators hum, roaring like an evel stadium. will you calm down sir,...

St. Mary's Walk Shearwater

claire lives up on saint mary's walk with her mother. and i live down on philomel by the harvor and i hate the ocean. well, claire says she'd throw me overboard, then that she loves me and the...

Our Only Sun Shearwater

There a kink in the pattern did you do the right thing theres a hole in the fabric did you do the right thing can you trust a human being to do the right thing under our only sun

Hurts Like Heaven Shearwater

Written in graffiti on a bridge in a parkDo you ever get the feeling that you're missing the markIt's so cold it's so coldIt's so cold it's so coldWritten up in marker on a factory signI struggle w...

Natural One Shearwater

Originally by Folk ImplosionI'm the one natural one make it easywe can take it insidewhere I can love how I like if my womanwhatever keeps me highyeah we can take itgood and loose on an endless spr...

Ambiguity Shearwater

Originally by David Thomas Broughtonhow much love can a boy contain in here how many contradictions can a girl posess up there these questions are too ambiguous try to narrow down your search somet...

Cheerleader Shearwater

Originally by St VincentI've had good timeswith some bad guysI've told whole lieswith a half smileheld your bare boneswith my clothes onI've thrown rocksthat hit both my armsI don't know what good ...

Tomorrow Shearwater

Originally by ClinicI saw you making celebrationsAt your breakfast on the tableWith a flask full to your lipsNot foreboding joy of living joy of givingBefore tomorrow comes before tomorrow comesAnd...

Mary Is Mary Shearwater

We left a 'maybe' for the cold heartAnd they found a body in my backyardI leave for the country just like you didBut he's not in the country just look how you liveAnd all high and mighty what do yo...

I Luv The Valley Oh!! Shearwater

It's a pill and you've got to take it It's a pill that you've got to take It's a pill and you've got to take it I won't rest until you take it That's a heart that you made That's a heart and the b...

The Kind Shearwater

Baby, hands in your lapYou touch your wounds so much they'll never healI fear you'll turn your backOn just the kind of love you really needIt's just the kindIt's just the kind you need to feelBaby,...

A Makeover Shearwater

"It's like a makeover when the filming's over and she doesn't know how to fix it so that it'll stay, and she can't figure out how to tease out her hair that way herself. And when she wakes up all t...

The World In 1984 Shearwater

"When our column advanced, and we saw what we'd done, we were sure that we could never tell the folks back home," said my father to me, I had just turned sixteen, and we were walking from my school...

The Convert Shearwater

I forgot I was loving youDisappeared for an hour or twoAnd I came to on a cold, wood floorAnd I didn't feel so good anymoreNow we clasp our handsAnd we make demandsThat the clouds will say what's w...

The Set Table Shearwater

Your warm sweaterYour torn lettersThey're all that mattersThey're all that mattersAt the window watching The elegant trafficIt's all fantasticIt's all fantasticAnd when you find these things that m...

On The Death Of The Waters Shearwater

From the wreck of the arkTo the fading day of our starThe light racesThe light dragsThe moon risesThe moon sagsOver the rolling wavesAnd your hands on the balconyAs a spine pricks the worldAnd a sh...

Leviathan, Bound Shearwater

the hollow lightis still on the fieldswhere the winter has warmedand the snows have drained wawayand the hunter's cryis still on the airas the bullet flies homebut the heart that's pierced with its...

Home Life Shearwater

When you were a child,You were a tomboyAnd your mother laughed at the serious wayThat you looked at herAnd from your window at nightThere were the star's little firesAnd the armory lightsYou were t...

Lost Boys Shearwater

My blistered feetTurn bloodySo i take to the air,And i am everywhere, i am starlightI am moonlightOver burning fields and bodies.I stay close to the ground,Slipping miles from the arches and arc-li...

Century Eyes Shearwater

You were not the first to arrive,And will not be the last to survive,As the pigs and the oxen we boundTo the wheelTear it off, tear it off!You ate not the last of this house,Or the first to go over...

I Was A Cloud Shearwater

I was a cloudI was a clud looking down;Your frantic waving did not provoke feeling.But this little oneSteady your wings, now, sparrowI remembered himSteady your wings, now, sparrowAnd in the dark,F...

The Snow Leopard Shearwater

"The way is to climbThe way is to lie stillAnd let the moon do its work on your bodyAnd then to riseThrough forests and oceans of livesAnd through the way of the black rocks, splitting, wide,And fl...

The Hunter's Star Shearwater

The hunter's starBurns brighter than all of the suns of the firmamentAs through the sky he ragedWith his hook and bladeAnd the world unmadeAs forests bowAnd blacken the airAs the canopies burn away...

For You Giant Rooks

I'll follow you down the roadUp the hill into the darkPast the strawberry fieldsTo the cemetery gatesWe'll make it count togetherOne day, lie down foreverWhen the sun sets, I'll be waitin' at the s...

Pink Skies Giant Rooks

Late June, midsummerSixties playin' on the radioPine trees, sunflowersMake me think of youCold night, warm bodiesShared smoke on the backyard patioTime passin' so slowlyWanna get to know youI'm los...

Somebody Like You Giant Rooks

He just turned 19, she's 22Now he got laid off this afternoonShe's working part-time in a second-hand storeStacking dreams like bookson her bedroom floorThey burn the evening, smoking the dragonCau...

Under Your Wings Giant Rooks

Another day is breakin'Lyin' awake waitin' (ay-yeah)For somebody to save meFrom the dreams that chase mePlease make it go quietI'm lyin' next to my bodyListenin' to my heartbeat (Heartbeat)I hate t...

Cold Wars Giant Rooks

Sweet lullabiesThey send me off dreamin'I'm dreamin'The sun goes downWithout any reasonNo reason to riseNow everything I doLeads me right back to youWhen the rain started fallin'I remember cold war...

Nobody Likes Hospitals Giant Rooks

Late-summer thundercloudsWere hangin' low (Hangin' low)Over the hospitalRain went down the concrete wallsLike teardrops (Teardrops)Runnin' down your faceSay, "I don't wanna live, I don't wanna die"...

Fight Club Giant Rooks

(Spice)Mm, yeahMmMy head on the floorHis feet on my spineShattered to pieces by the end of the nightOh, I've been taughtTo swallow my painInstead of talkin', I've poisoned my brainNow you can say w...

Flashlights Giant Rooks

Uh, alrightWhere do I start? Where do I begin?I try to let it all sink inBefore it slips away like a dreamSummer passed and autumn cameThe world outside was turnin' greyMost people aren't what they...

Brave New World Giant Rooks

Hands in my sweaterIs somebody watchin'?The sooner the better, I knowI stayed in the shadows like a ghostAnd all I really know, it's a passionThe system needs to burn down to ashesSet fire to the f...

Bedroom Exile Giant Rooks

(Yeah)Red eyes and a cold smileDim lights at the shorelineYou say that I am a runawayI just can't find the words to sayA soft breeze in the palm treesOn an island, but I don't give aDon't let me be...

Morning Blue Giant Rooks

It's not worth the mention, the way I feelOh, I just kinda hope that wasn't realStarting the engine every single day, huhBut everywhere I go, I couldn't stayIt's just a daydream, it's not what it s...

Fake Happiness Giant Rooks

I'm divin' in, I'm breathin' outYou're by the pool watching the cloudsSwimmin' in the deep end to remember(To remember, to remember)I feel the sea salt on my skinDon't ever let the winter winWish i...

Love Is A Selfish Thing Giant Rooks

I set my house on fire'cause I don't really like what's insidePickin' up the piecesthat I once used to call my mind(Yeah, yeah, yeah)You said you won't let me forget ya"Moments fade away,"You alway...

How Have You Been? Giant Rooks

I won't ever let you go'Cause you're mine, you'll be mine'til the end of timeI won't ever let you go'Cause you're mine, you'll be mine,never let you goI won't ever let you go'Cause you're mine, you...

A Child's Question, August PJ Harvey

Starling swarms will soon be lorn Rooks tell stories 'cross the corn Goocoo soon will 'es leave make Swifts abandon autumn's ache [Chorus] What says dunnick, drush or dove? "Love Me Tender"?

Losing Your Affection Future Bible Heroes

You know me I take nothing seriously I can see a laughing face in every willow tree But I'd rather be the queen at the guillotine In a bloody insurrection I would rather be king when the rooks take wing