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Sunset Soon Forgotten - Iron & Wine 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 still sinking Down and down Once again Down and down Gone again Be

Lovers accustomed to tragedy See every kiss in the window across the street Breezes and blessings passing by I'm in the shade of the dogwood tree Not the one where you told your name to me Two hungry blackbirds land near by If I could be over you whe

Mary Anne, do you remember The tree by the river When we were seventeen? Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer And the mare in the pasture Pitch black and baring its teeth I recall the sun in our faces Stuck and leaning on graces And being strang

Blackbird claw, raven wing Under the red sunlight Long clothesline, two shirt sleeves Waving as we go by Hundred years, hundred more Someday we may see a Woman king, wristwatch time Slowing as she goes to sleep Black horse fly, lemonade Jar on the re

Iron & Wine Well it's cold and you're bored From counting the Smart cars on 94 When you dream, you're back home But the lakeside don't trust you to walk alone Hollow trees, dark of hand All the neckties are toasting with empty cans And you know why s

May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay fo

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 himself Did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay True, it may seem lik

Please, remember me Happily By the rosebush laughing With bruises on my chin The time when We counted every black car passing Your house beneath the hill And up until Someone caught us in the kitchen With maps, a mountain range, A piggy bank A vision

God made the automobile To pass all the pretty girls That smoke by the side of the road Their blues lovin' boys in tow To drive until the of the day And bow to a borrowed flag Beside all the brave and the blind And men without men in mind To pass all

We take the sun We take the truth from anyone Anyone, anyone We take the wind Just like the world will never end Never end, never end And heaven's had enough of us We turn around and found forget-me-nots And other new surprises And heaven's had enoug

Artist:iron and wine Songs Title:pagan angel and a borrowed car 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 ang

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 And no one is the savior they would like to be The love song of the buzzard in the dog

Mary Anne, do you remember the tree by the river when we were seventeen? Dark canyon wall, the call and the answer and the mare in the pasture pitch black and baring its teeth. I recall the sun in our faces, stuck and leaning on braces, and being str

Almost home when I missed the bottom stair You were braiding your gray hair It had grown so long Since I'd been gone And the perfect girls by the pool, they would protest The cross around their necks But our sons were overseas And we all know 'bout t

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 selling their blankets to bleed (on) Around the ho

Said the plain clothes cop to the beauty queen "I've seen nothing but a spoke in the wheel." So she gave up her crown to a kid with a crutch And they both felt cheated after closing the deal When the white tooth man I ran with then Got all cut u

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 A weary memory I can always see, see Found your rosary broken into pieces Every night, by the bed, you'd kiss the beads Tho

Iron & Wine - Innocent Bones Submitted by I.td 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 alway

The kettle burned because I left it too long When we were kissing with the radio on The cat was choking on a rattlesnake bone The town had gathered around the soldier boy Carried home And every summer there was imminent rain The sick kids ate a bowl

This postcard tells you where we've been And dirty dreams of pious men Who wake in fear but sleep again With what they've done With what they've done With all they've done Some prophet died but wrote it down Our serpent bell is on the ground And all