[v.1]
I met her by her minivan
with the stickers on it.
I met her inside a storm
I didn’t hold on for so long
I couldn’t cross over
and then she sang to me
This is a siren song.
[chorus ]
I didn’t know I didn’t know
I didn’t know I didn’t know
I didn’t know I didn’t know…
[v.2]
I would cry into her shoulder
I would find her past the arbor
and the sharks
I didn’t know I didn’t know
I didn’t know I didn’t know
I didn’t know I didn’t know…
[v. 3]
It almost seems illegal
two bodies in the morning glow
that we can be this beautiful.
[bridge]
We were breaking
we were the cracks
of light.
It’s like she swallowed a map
cause she always finds her way back
to me.
So take me to Montana,
take me to Indiana
Take me to the softest skin I know
Let’s go .
[chorus ]
I didn’t know I didn’t know
I didn’t know I didn’t know
I didn’t know I didn’t know
[v.4]
She’d hold me in a river
She’d hold me in a rising tide
She’d hold me with this dark inside.
She’d hold me
she’d want me anyway.
[outro]
I didn’t know I didn’t know
that this could be so beautiful.
Shouldn’t it be beautiful?
Wouldn’t it be beautiful?
[v.1]
Sarah says I should leave him I know and I know I should go.
Sarah says I should go and I know I will burn either way, so.
Sarah says that the bruises are beautiful,
Sarah says they’re the hues of the setting sun
not a rising one
Sarah says
[chorus]
Have you ever been
to the top of a mountain
when your world’s on fire?
Have you ever driven
through the night
to find a sky
that’s bleeding light?
[v.2]
Sarah says that the chains that the chains that the chains look like home
Sarah says they’re the chains that I’ve outgrown
Sarah says while he’s good and he’s good on occasion,
Sarah says that even Hitler painted
Oh, he painted.
Sarah says.
[pre-bridge]
Sarah sings me the songs of the women who knew how to leave
Sarah says I should leave him I know and I know I won’t try.
[bridge]
The night’s so long .
The bird’s awake in my chest.
He’s my home.
Oh please let me rest.
The sun will rise today
I’ll turn away
I’ll turn away, hey.
[chorus]
Have you ever been
to the top of a mountain
when your world’s on fire?
Have you ever driven
through the night
to find a sky that’s bleeding light?
[v.1 reprise]
Sarah says I should leave him I know and I know I should go.
Sarah says I should go and I know I will burn either way, so.
[outro]
Sarah says that the light’s on the other side of this.
Sarah says.
[chorus]
Glory Be, glory be:
look at me don’t look at me.
Glory Be, glory be:
look at me don’t look at me.
[v.1]
Do you like my mouth when I’m not kissing?
when I’m sleeping is it really me you’re missing?
Will you give me one gold star
If I don’t let me let you take this too far?
Glory be.
[v.2]
Whatever you’re looking for,
Come find it.
cause I don’t really want you
but I want you to want it.
Tell me do you want my insecurity
on my sleeve or in your teeth?
[chorus]
Glory Be, glory be:
look at me don’t look at me.
Glory Be, glory be:
look at me don’t look at me.
[bridge]
will you keep an eye out for me?
will you remind me who I am when I’m not me?
I’m looking for a light in all the wrong windows
‘never find love and still be a widow.
[v.3]
I am a flower pressed against the wall for thee.
I am a ghost in the girls I could not set free
I want to be in a house made of brick
my little patchwork heart, take your pick:
when he calls, is it he or is it you who falls?
[pre-chorus]
Do you like me sorry now?
Do you like me pretty now?
Do you like me hollow now?
Glory be.
Glory be.
[chorus]
Glory Be, glory be:
look at me don’t look at me.
Glory Be, glory be:
look at me don’t look at me.
Glory be.
[chorus]
There’s a ghost story you told to me
and I know another mother wouldn’t let that be
A ghost story you told to me
and I know another wouldn’t let that be.
[v.1]
There’s a ghost in the bedroom down the hall
there’s a ghost in the knives she kept
they’re in the trees knocking on the wall
There’s a ghost where she slept when he left
not alone
[v.2]
A bird keeps hitting her window
she says it’s her father now
They’re in the sunflowers
and the cows that won’t come home
A heart that breaks creates
a ghost song.
[chorus intro]
But I’ve got your bandana and your gold coin necklace,
So tonight I can go to sleep
And you’re safe with me:
Another mother.
[chorus]
There’s a ghost story you told to me
and I know another mother wouldn’t let that be
There’s a ghost story you told to me
and I know another mother wouldn’t let that be.
[v.3]
I don’t care
if he writes me all night long
I’m not lonely now
Tell me what your ghosts have done to you
we’re here with you.
[bridge]
Now I know I’m already home:
Night swimming, hearts bent,
I’ll meet you in the deep end
This life abides and I’m all right
and right where I need to be.
We're right where we need to be.
[chorus intro]
Cause I’ve got your bandana and your gold coin necklace:
So tonight I can go to sleep
And you’re safe with me.
Another mother.
[chorus]
There’s a ghost story you told to me
and I know another mother wouldn’t let that be
There’s a ghost story you told to me
and I know another wouldn’t let that be
There’s a ghost story you told to me
and I know another mother wouldn’t let that be
There’s a ghost story you told to me
and I know another mother wouldn’t let that be.
[v.1]
It’s 3am and I’m awake again.
It’s not night and it’s not morning.
There’s a new moon, they say,
which looks like no moon to me,
and it keeps happening.
[v.2]
Tell me I’m your lover.
Tell me I’ve warded off the rain.
Tell me you were nothing before me
and I’ve healed all your pain.
[chorus]
How do we reset the bone?
What matters is how we reset the bone
that broke when you were all alone
[bridge]
Go slow.
go slow.
I need you
more than I can know.
[v.3]
I am wondering why you want me
let’s say that I went away
I wonder what girl’s river you would swim in
and why you stay.
[pre-chorus]
Once you fell and you broke your bone
We are living only in the half-tone.
But we'll repair
and I’m not scared
(I'm a little bit scared).
[chorus]
How do we reset the bone?
What matters is how we reset the bone
that broke when you were all alone?
[bridge]
Go slow.
go slow.
I need you
more than I can know.
[chorus]
How do we reset the bone?
What matters is how we reset the bone
that broke when you were all alone
[outro / v.5]
It’s 3am and I’m awake again.
It’s not night and it’s not morning.
There’s a new moon, they say,
which looks like no moon to me
and it keeps happening.
[v.1]
She is washed by a river
and dirty anyway.
She’s tiptoe on our picnic table, naked.
The night-blooming Cereus is draped around her
neck
She smokes a candy cigarette
we kick his pickup truck
and the wind picks up and we are all
holy in …
[chorus]
Virginia is a girl I know
she taught me to be wild.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant:
impermanence is what I can’t
in …
[v.2]
Virginia sleeps on old Virginia,
Her hands clawed like a goddess
We wonder how we deserve this.
The old oak trees are crying.
She bit her mama’s arm,
and Mann, oh Mann
that’s my favorite part.
She is gorgeous, GORJUS,
like that license plate in …
[chorus]
Virginia is a girl I know
she taught me to be wild
Tell the truth, but tell it slant:
impermanence is what I can’t
in Virginia.
[bridge]
The blood, it trickles down her face:
just a mosquito bite
death is everywhere , death is everywhere
But I am here. We are here.
And then we’ll all die
after we sit by the fire
for as long
as we can sing
in …
[chorus]
Virginia is a girl I know
she loves me for all time
I don’t yet have the wild
that she shows me can be mine
Tell the truth, but tell it slant,
impermanence is what I can’t in Virginia.
[v.1]
I am alone with your flowers
as my microphone
and I wonder if I’m still your home
I didn’t mean to hurt you
You didn’t mean to hurt me
well there’s so much I want to say to you
but I’ll let it breathe.
Cause this isn’t a love song.
[chorus]
You know you have my heart
and your heart has me.
But I won’t sing a love song
in a minor key.
[v.2]
If it were , I would sing to you
how much I want to hold you
how you could maybe hold me. Hey if you
would just call me
I would sing you a love song.
This isn’t a love song.
[v.3]
Do you remember in the river
where water was made of sky
The sky that we swam over. Hey,
now I’m feeling maybe angry
So I’ll let it breathe.
[chorus]
You know you have my heart
and your heart has me
But I won’t sing a love song
in a minor key.
I won’t sing a love song
in a minor key
[bridge]
The night sky is endless over here
can you see me?
can’t be a thing broken anymore.
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Love is a river
Love is air
Do you remember?
We were there
It doesn’t walk away.
[outro]
Cause I need you to stay
at this table with me.
I am alone with your flowers
as my microphone.
Hey, please come home.
This isn’t a love song.
[v.1]
Her eyes are on fire
the photo is torn.
The windy one is here, we are
meant to be worn
Her heart is loud
her brain is burning
the caged bird sings and we are
laughing, laughing.
[chorus]
ooh, ooh, ooh,
oh, Sinead
Hey,
Hold on, you will fall to your knees
Hold on, you will fall to your knees
Please you will fall to your knees
[v.2]
Shave my head,
don’t call me pretty
I hate this ride
but I love this city.
Maybe all of us would
feel inside we never
meant to really die.
The world is smoking
all around
the world is a crying,
hopeful sound
we let us
down, down, down.
[bridge]
Her sail it billows, her
sail is taut
Sometimes she’s happy,
sometimes she’s not
Hello.
We are the windy ones.
[chorus]
ooh, ooh, ooh,
oh Sinead
Hey,
Hold on, you will fall to your knees
Hold on, you will fall to your knees
Please you will fall to your knees.
[v 1]
There is a place inside where only ghosts reside
Yours is a heart that finds her even when your clocks cannot keep time.
All you wanted was the weight of her body in your mind.
No, all you wanted were the stones from the river.
[chorus]
And I know
You are swimming in a river and it’s colder
than I’ll ever want to be
And I know
That sorrow is a hand that fills with snow
But you don’t show it.
And I know
If grief is next to god, my love,
Then you are holy now.
If grief is next to god, my love,
Then you are holy now.
[v.2]
The tattoo scarred through
where they cut the timer out of you
you are holy fear and booze and love and spite
I am a coward in a cave with no fireflies tonight.
I am a coward in a cave with no fireflies tonight.
[bridge]
Look up, look up: we watch her rise, rise, rise.
You say, it’s worth the loss, the beauty of the sky.
Maybe it’s worth the loss, the beauty of the sky.
[chorus]
And I know
you are swimming in a river
and it’s colder than I’ll ever want to be.
And I know
That sorrow is a hand that fills with snow
but you don’t show it.
And I know
If grief is next to god, my love,
Then you are holy now.
If grief is next to god, my love,
Then you are holy now.
[outro]
Your child wakes from a dream and you hold them
and it always seems
that we cannot hold them close enough.
You say, Oh world, I cannot hold you close enough.
All you wanted was the weight of her body in your mind
No, all you wanted were the stones from the river.
All you wanted were the stones from the river
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