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Now my work is done I feel I'm owed some joy Oh Imogene and Abelard I'm your homeward boy But there's another one Who brings me to your door And the boat she weaved from the tidal reeds Was always tied to shore [Chorus] With bright smiles and dark ey

All the other girls here are stars?you are the Northern Lights They try to shine in through your curtains?you're too close and too bright They try and they try but everything that they do Is the ghost of a trace of a pale imitation of you I'll be the

If I could trace the lines that ran Between your smile and your sleight of hand I would guess that you put something up my sleeve Now every time I see your face the bells ring in a far-off place We can find each other this way I believe From the hill

Josh Ritter – Love Is Making Its Way Back Home dot paths the moonly road when time the crunch of snow i wonder when your smile show 'cause love it's making it's way back home love is making its way back home love is making its way back home love is m

We started looking for you In the darker caves We had a lot of love We thought would light the way We saw the wrecks of buildings And ships that sank in starlight We saw the ghosts of angels That spoke of falls from tremendous heights Don't you leave

My new lover, sweet and kind The kind of lover that one rarely finds And I'm happy for the first time, in a long time Came along and opened up the door And though I know I've been in love before Oh I feel it, so much more, than the last time And she

The leading lights of the age all wondered among themselves what I would do next, After all that I'd found, in my travels around the world, was there anything left? "Gentlemen," I said, "I've studied the maps, and if what I am thinking is

Fold yourself against Me like a paper bird Tonight we'll fly awhile Just give me the word And hold onto me Like I hold onto you A steeple holds a bell The night sky holds the moon Melting flakes of snow Will catch you when you fall Baby that's not al

He opens his eyes falls in love at first sight With the girl in the doorway What beautiful lines and how full of life After thousands of years what a face to wake up to He holds back a sigh as she touches his arm She dusts off the bed where 'til now

Tokyo! I know from all your lightbulbs that you know The real deal when you see it - if you see it won't you tell me so? Oh we've come too far - too far to be so far apart. Tokyo! I see by all your lightbulbs that you know That no matter how kind, lo

Under wide blue skies There's a place to lie For me and Evelyn to hide tonight I'll try my best to make a go But I'm not sure what I don't know Oh chariots, if you're out there Please swing low Tell me I got here at the right time If I did it's proba

Louis Collins took a trip out west When he returned, little Delia had gone to rest The angels laid her away Louis said to Delia "That's the sad thing with life, There's people always leavin' just as other folks arrive" The angels laid her away W

And oh, what a thrill it was To be in your arms again And oh, what a thrill it was To be in those arms And all those plans I had, all they did was hold me down Those plans I had, they can't hold me now That I am back In your arms again And I who had

Why can't you try to be happy? Why must you always be sad? Why spend your only life waitin' To have what you know you can have? Why spend your only life hopin'? What a torture to be always blue, darlin'. Why spend your only life waiting To do what yo

California - Josh Ritter Going out to California Gonna let the water warm my clothes I'm alone but I'm not lonely Gonna trade the weather for the Western coast No don't cry I'll be back and I'll Bring the sun to shine In your eyes On your shoulders S

I had a dream last night. I dreamt that I was swimming And the stars up above. Directionless and drifting Somewhere in the dark.Were the sirens and the thunder And around me as I swam. The drifters who'd gone under Time love Time love Time love.... I

He'll laugh and say that he can't sleep And he don't know the reason why Maybe it's the evil eye Oh, that awful evil eye Remember how he used to hold you close Now in the middle of the night Oh, the evil eye Oh, that awful evil eye Someone must reall

Josh Ritter - Girl In The War The Animal Years (2006) By:西瓜太郎 Peter said to Paul you know all those words we wrote Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go But now talking to God is Laurel begging Hardy for a gun I got a girl

Moon river, wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way Two drifters, off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're both lookin' for the rainbow's e

Supposedly it was a wise wise man who said it's better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all, never to have loved. How many times does the truth that you take to be true Is just truth falling apart at the same speed as you Until it a