Lyrics for the Little One

“Did you hear the ‘59 Sound coming through on Grandmama’s radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?”

- Gaslight Anthem, “The ‘59 Sound” from “The ‘59 Sound”, 2008

sounds like this guy

“I can sit wondering what in the world you think about 
I don’t think i’m ever gonna figure it out”

- Elliott Smith, “I Don’t Think I’m Ever Gonna Figure It Out” from “Speed Trials”, 1996

“Just like my dad did when he was home
Staying up late, staying up alone
Just like my dad did when he was thinking
Oh, how fast the years fly”

- Sun Kil Moon, “Glenn Tipton” from “Ghosts of the Great Highway”, 2003

no lyrics here…

- Sun Kil Moon, “Si Paloma” from “Ghosts of the Great Highway”, 2003

from flickr

“Hoping that I see you on the street 
It’s your kind of day 
Nothing has the color of your eyes 
Train leaving gray 
And I’ll never love no one 
The way I loved you”

- Mason Jennings, “Train Leaving Gray” from “Birds Flying Away”, 2000

more Lyrics for the Little One

“The sight of bridges and balloons
Makes calm canaries irritable
And they caw and claw all afternoon
Catenaries and dirigibles

Brace and buoy the livingroom
A loom of metal, warp - woof - wimble
And a thimble’s worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble

Oh my love
Oh it was a funny little thing
To be the ones to’ve seen”

- Joanna Newsom, “Bridges and Balloons” from “Milk-Eyed Mender”, 2004

If near a harp, make sure the camera is set for b&w

“The line, it writes itself across the dark sky,
In the electric flushes ending with a sigh
It weaves itself into a fabric so true
and flows just like the river, graceful and blue

I’m just pulling on a line, on a line,
I’m just pulling on a line
I’m just pulling on a line, on a line
And sometimes it pulls on me”

- Great Lakes Swimmers, “Pulling on a Line” from “Lost Channels”, 2009

“I got to head this boat south pretty soon
New album’s old and I’m fresh out of tunes
But I know that I’ll get em, I know that they’ll come
Through the people and places and Callwoods rum”

- Jimmy Buffett, “Manana” from “Son of a Son of a Sailor”, 1978

Good for a neck snapper!

one of the best theme songs ever. A surprising twist at the 11 second mark.

this guy is funny

“Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold
But with you forever I’ll stay
We’re goin’ out where the sand’s turnin’ to gold
So put on your stockin’s baby ‘cause the night’s getting cold
And everything dies baby that’s a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back”

- Levon Helm, “Atlantic City” from “The Ties That Bind”, 1993

“Radio waves are coming miles and miles
Bringing only empty boats
Whatever feeling they had when they sailed
Somehow slipped out between the notes”

- Josh Ritter, “Monster Ballads” from “The Animal Years”, 2006

“Sun is in the sky oh why oh why?
Would I wanna be anywhere else”

- Lily Allen, “LDN” from “Alright Still”, 2006

from flickr

“Everybody who read the Jungle Book knows that
Riki tiki tavi’s a mongoose who kills snakes.
Well when I was a young man I was led to believe
There were organisations to kill my snakes for me.
IE the church ie the government ie the school
But when I got a little older I learned I had to kill them myself”

- Donovan Leitch, “Riki Tiki Tavi” rom “Troubadour”, 1973