Lyrics for the Little One

“She sang bless your soul you crossed that line to Ohio 
Bless your soul you crossed that line 
All the way to Ohio”

- The Low Anthem, “To Ohio” from “Oh My God, Charlie Darwin”, 2008

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“And I realized that then you were perfect
With my teeth ripping out of my head
And it looked like a painting I once knew
Back when my thoughts were not the leak intact

So I prayed for what I thought were angels
Ended up being ambulances
And the Lord showed me dreams of my daughter
She was crying inside your stomach”

- Manchester Orchestra, “I Can Feel a Hot One” from “Mean Everything to Nothing”, 2009

“We all grow old, use your life, the world goes and flutter’ by, 
Use your life, you’ll know you are,  
Use your life, the world goes and flutter’ by, 
Use your life, you’ll know you are”

- Jonsi, “Boy Lilikoi” from “Go”, 2010

“So come out of your cave walking on your hands
And see the world hanging upside down
You can understand dependence
When you know the maker’s hand”

- Mumford and Sons, “The Cave” from “Sigh No More”, 2010

“I know you’re a serious lady
Living off a teacup full of cherries
Nobody knows where you are livin
Nobody knows where you are”

- The National, “So Far Around the Bend” from “Dark Was the Night”, 2009

“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

“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

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“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