Arms of a Thief iron & wine

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 was bored of her words The daughter of a soldier

Naked As We Came (Album Version) Iron & Wine

she says, "wake up, it's no use pretending" I'll keep stealing, breathing her birds are leaving over autumn's ending one of us will die inside these arms eyes wide open, naked as we came one

Naked As We Came (Album) iron & wine

She says Wake up it's no use pretending I'll keep stealing breathing her Birds are leaving over autumn's ending One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wide open Naked as we came One will spread our

Naked As We Came Iron & Wine

Birds are leaving over autumn\'s ending One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wide open, naked as we came One will spread our ashes \'round the yard She says \"If I leave before you, darling

Passing Afternoon (Album) iron & wine

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her Wooden spoons her children stir

Passing Afternoon Iron & Wine

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her Wooden spoons, her children

Free Until They Cut Me Down iron & wine

wraps me like the reaper's hand I will swing free until they cut me down Papa don't tell me what I could've done She's the one who begged me "Take me home" When the sea takes me like my mother's arms

Cinder And Smoke (Album) iron & wine

give it as fast And high as the flame will rise Cinder and smoke Some whispers around the trees The juniper bends As if you were listening Give me your hand Your mother is drunk As all the firemen shake A

Cinder And Smoke iron & wine

fast And high as the flame will rise Cinder and smoke Some whispers around the trees The juniper bends As if you were listening Give me your hand Your mother is drunk as all the firemen shake A

Each Coming Night iron & wine

say when I'm gone away My lover came to me and we'd lay In rooms unfamiliar but until now Oh oh oh oh Until now Oh oh oh oh Until now Will you say to them when I'm gone I loved your son for his sturdy arms

Singers And The Endless Song iron & wine

When we all ran back into the briars We told our children about the foreign shore When we threw our boots into the fire We told them all about the tug of war Gonna tell them about the seed and the

Each Coming Night (Album) iron & wine

In rooms unfamiliar but until now, oh-oh-oh-oh Until now, oh-oh-oh-oh Until now Will you say to them when I'm gone "I loved your son for his sturdy arms"?

Wolves (Song Of The Shepherd's Dog) Iron & Wine

Wolves by the road and a bike wheel spinning on a pawn shop wall She'll wring out her colored hair like a butterfly beaten in a summer rainfall And then roll on the kitchen floor of some fucker with

Lovesong Of The Buzzard Iron & Wine

In the failing light of the afternoon Lucy in the shade of the dogwood blooms Yesterday the solace of a poison fish Tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips No one is the saviour they would like

Innocent Bones Iron & Wine

Cain got a milk-eyed mule from the auction Abel got a telephone And even the last of the blue-eyed babies know That the burning man is the color of the end of day And how every tongue that gets bit

Sodom, South Georgia (Album) Iron & Wine

Papa died smiling Wide as the ring of a bell Gone all star white Small as a wish in a well And Sodom, South Georgia Woke like a tree full of bees Buried in Christmas Bows and a blanket of weeds

Sodom, South Georgia iron & wine

Papa died smiling Wide as the ring of a bell Gone all star white Small as a wish in a well And Sodom, South Georgia Woke like a tree full of bees Buried in Christmas Bows and a blanket of weeds

Radio War iron & wine

Did the wine make her dream Of the far distant spring Or a bed full of hens Or the ghost of a friend All the while that she wept She had a gun by her bed And a letter he wrote From a dry, foundered

Serpent Charmer iron & wine

There's a woman here with a broken record player And a dusty compass off to map the country's new behavior Strange words that we hold on back into the river Brave boys in the empty coats of men There's

Lovers' Revolution iron & wine

I came to you and you to me And we were tapping on the window at the children when the piggy bank broke And pitching quite a fit About how the makers of the medicine will always say you’re looking sick

Glad Man Singing Iron & Wine

I've become a glad man singing a song About a soldier on a good and a fallen angel Naked as a fish and a high About a sad man climbed up a willow bough And the cops are on the fence around a dog in

Grass Widows iron & wine

We found each other blown between the trees Waning moons wanting to be swallowed by the sea Like we finally saw the colors of the world We grew the garden snake within the weeds Laid each other long

Walking Far From Home Iron & Wine

that had tumbled to the ground I saw sinners making music And I dreamt of that sound, dreamt of that sound I was walking far from home But I carried your letters all the while I saw lovers in a window

Bird Stealing Bread iron & wine

Tell me baby tell me Are you still on the stoop Watching the windows close I've not seen seen you lately On the street, by the beach Or places we used to go I've a picture of you On our favorite day by

Boy With A Coin Iron & Wine

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 circle the world A girl with a bird she found in

Hickory iron & wine

father will Her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her Breast never dries when he's hungry The money came and she died in her rocking chair The window wide and the rain in her braided hair A

Low Light Buddy Of Mine iron & wine

He's in a white car waiting for the light to change He's a buddy of mine but I can't complain He can make a lot of money he can touch his toes He knows you never look til the lights are low And I love

Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car Iron & Wine

Love was a promise made of smoke In a frozen copse of trees A bone cold and older than our bodies Slowly floating in the sea Every morning there were planes The shiny blades of pagan angels in our

The Devil Never Sleeps iron & wine

Love was a promise made of smoke In a frozen copse of trees A bone cold and older than our bodies Slowly floating in the sea Every morning there were planes The shiny blades of pagan angels in our

Joy Iron & Wine

Deep inside the heart of this troubled mess There\'s an itty bitty boy tuggin\' hard at your hand Born bitter as a lemon but you must understand that you are bringin\' me joy I only lie when they

An Angry Blade iron & wine

Striking a match for the keyhole Dark as the evening laid When he left you all alone Turning to fade through the sawgrass Tall as the only love That you'll ever really know Who left you so?

Peace Beneath The City iron & wine

Here's a prayer for the body buried by the interstate Mother of a soldier, a tree in a forest up in flames Black valley, peace beneath the city Where the women hear the washboard rhythm in their bosom

Carousel Iron & Wine

the perfect girls By the pool, they would protest The cross around their necks But our sons were overseas And we all know 'bout the hive and the honey bees Almost home With an olive branch and a

Swans and the Swimming iron & wine

Take me again, she said, thinking of him "To the pond with the swans and the swimming" Far from his room the familiar perfume How it felt to her when she was naked Lessons she learned when her memory slurs

Jesus The Mexican Boy iron & wine

Jesus the Mexican boy born in a truck on the fourth of July gave me a card with a lady naked on the back Barefoot at night on the road Fireworks blooming above in the sky I never knew I was given the best

Caught In The Briars iron & wine

Back alleys full of rain and everything shining as holy as she can be the trick’s in the timing Free as a morning bird fragile as china she’s stuck in the weakest heart of South Carolina where all of

Weary Memory iron & wine

Found your mittens behind a box of pictures You would wear them before I brewed the tea That's one memory I can easily conjure Weary memory I can always see Found your rosary broken into pieces Every night

Sundown (Back In The Briars) iron & wine

There go the cops with the tomcat teeth Here come the church mice trying too hard She had a way to be kind with words I had a knife in the back of my car Nobody knows when the rain may come Nobody

New Mexico's No Breeze iron & wine

were thieves in the square Hiding hands and hiding prayers And all their mumbling Nothing left you alone Tangled hills and tiny veery oh's Singing something Stuck with open curls Your mama was scared of

Gray Stables iron & wine

Brave lady, i could see you through The mosses Laid, shameless in the sun My lady with her porcelain and her Weightless Face, pleasing everyone Gray stables and the horses of the Righteous Pray daily for

White Tooth Man Iron & Wine

Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen "I've seen nothing but a spoke in a wheel" So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch And they both felt cheated after closing the deal And the

Me And Lazarus Iron & Wine

But he's got a hole in the pocket of his pants? Must be a symptom of outstanding circumstances? Woah? Me and Lazarus, we fiddle with a baby spoon? Fever flowing through the room?

House By The Sea Iron & Wine

There is a house by the sea Two jealous sisters, they're waiting for me And one is laid on the floor And one is changing the locks on the doors And I've been buying the time on my knees And I've been

Flightless Bird, American Mouth Iron & Wine

I was a quick wet boy, diving too deep for coins All of your street light eyes wide on my plastic toys Then when the cops closed the fair, I cut my long baby hair Stole me a dog-eared map and called

Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Ver.) Iron & Wine

I was a quick wet boy Diving too deep for coins All of your street light eyes Wide on my plastic toys Then when the cops closed the fair I cut my long baby hair Stole me a dog-eared map And called

Resurrection Fern iron & wine

The baby's breath Our bravery wasted and our shame And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire All the more a pair of underwater pearls Than the oak tree

The Trapeze Swinger (Album Version) Iron & Wine

Halloween Making fools of all the neighbors Our faces painted white By midnight We'd forgotten one another And when the morning came I was ashamed Only now it seems so silly That season left the

The Trapeze Swinger iron & wine

fools of all the neighbors Our faces painted white, by midnight We'd forgotten one another And when the morning came I was ashamed Only now it seems so silly That season left the world and then returned

Tree By The River Iron & Wine

recall the sun in our faces Stuck and leaning on graces And being strangers to change Radio and the bones we found frozen And all the thorns and the roses Beneath your window pane Now I'm asleep in a

Rabbit Will Run Iron & Wine

a virgin as if she were clean And I still have a prayer, despite all the colors I've seen And judgment is just like a cup that we share I'll jump over the wall and I'll wait for you there We'll pass