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[{"id":833056,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-40-east-lyrics","title":"40 East","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Sleep darling rest your mind\nI'll drive all night to get to you\nPlease moan softly if you must moan at all\nI'm moving through the night toward you\n\nSleep darling, sleep darling\nI'm on my way to you\nI'm on my way to you\n\nRest my angel, not one word\nBetween you and I on the telephone line\nYou are weary and need your sleep\nSo leave the hard thinking and the driving to me\n\nSleep darling, sleep darling\nI'm on my way to you\nI'm on my way to you\nLet go"},{"id":101999,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-a-fathers-first-spring-lyrics","title":"A Father’s First Spring","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nThe sweetest surrender of winter\nShe put up her flag, it is waving\nThe thunder of summer is rumbling in\n\n[Chorus 1]\nI haven't seen you in days\nAnd my, how that feeling has changed\nOh, I have been home sick for you since we met\nI have been homesick for you\n\n[Verse 2]\nNow I've got to take to the sky\nAnd I'll tell you what that means for you and I\nIf I die, it's for you\n\n[Chorus 2]\nI never lived until I lived in your light\nAnd my heart never beat like it does at the sight\nOf you baby blue, God blessed your life\nI do not live unless I live in your light\n\n[Verse 3]\nThe realest thing I ever felt\nWas the blood on the floor\nAnd the love in your yell\nI was a child before the day I met Eleanor\n\n[Bridge]\nThe kiss of the wind in the hills\nThe clearness of morning, the late evening thrill\nBlurry and gray like the roar\nThe wheels on the highway, above them I soar\n\n[Verse 4]\nWhen I'm in the sweet daughter's eyes\nMy heart is now ruined for the rest of all time\nThere's no part of it left to give\n\n[Chorus 2]"},{"id":833443,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-a-gift-for-melody-anne-lyrics","title":"A Gift For Melody Anne","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"I wanna get back\nI wanna get square\nI wanna get back on the hopes and dreams that I had\nThat the good lord above us can spare\nLike that actor said\nI don't wanna lose heart\nI don't wanna get beat beat down by the big big world\nI'll quit before I even start\n\nLord, I just want my life to be true (I just want my life to be true)\nAnd I just want my heart you be true (just want my heart to be true)\nI just want my words to be true (I just want my words)\nI want my soul to feel brand new\n\nI wanna hold hands\nYeah, and I wanna make love\nAnd I wanna keep running all day, and all night\nEven when my mind tell my body \"that's enough\"\nAnd I wanna stand up\nYeah, and I wanna stand tall\nIf I ever have a son, if I ever have a daughter\nI don't wanna tell them that I didn't give my all\n\nAnd I just wan my life to be true (I just want my life to be true)\nAnd I just want my heart you be true (just want my heart to be true)\nI just want my words to be true (I just want my words)\nI want my soul to feel brand, brand new\nLike a fresh coat of paint\nWe could make it anything but blue\nAnything but blue\n\nNow, when your dreams start saying\n\"I can't come true, you'd be better off without me\"\nDon't let them go\nDon't let them go\n\nI don't wanna go broke\nNot from one bad deal\nI don't wanna be up all night crying in my hands for a girl\nThat isn't even real\n\nLord, I just want my life to be true (I just want my life to be true)\nAnd I just want my heart you be true (just want my heart to be true)\nAnd I just want my words to be true (I just want my words to be true)\nAnd I just want my song to be true (Just want my song to be true)\nAnd I just want my heart you be true (just want my heart to be true)\nAnd I just want my heart you be true (just want my heart to be true)\nAnd I just want my words to be true (I just want my words to be true)\nAnd I just want my heart you be true (just want my heart to be true)\nAnd I just want my life to be true (I just want my life to be true)\nAnd I just want my song to be true (Just want my song to be true)\nAnd I just want my life to be true (I just want my life to be true)\nI want my soul to feel brand new\nI want my soul to feel brand new"},{"id":2454906,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-aint-no-man-lyrics","title":"Ain’t No Man","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nThere ain't no man-can save me\nThere ain't no man-can enslave me\nAin't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in\nThere ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear\nCause I got only love to share\nIf you're looking for truth I'm proof you'll find it there\n\n[Verse 1]\nYou got to serve something, ain't that right?\nI know it gets dark, but there's always a light\nYou don't have to buy in to get into the club\nTrade your worries\nYou gotta show up if you wanna be seen\nIf it matters to you ma', it matters to me\nI'm going to fall hard, yeah I know I am\nWhen the clowns crack up, I laugh with them\n\n[Chorus]\nThere ain't no man-can save me\nThere ain't no man-can enslave me\nAin't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in\nThere ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear\nCause I got only love to share\nIf you're looking for truth I'm proof you'll find it there\n\n[Verse 2]\nYou say you look funny, I say you're a star\nI say you're whatever you think you are\nWatch the naysayers fall right in line\nIf we believe it they'll say, \"she is so pretty; he is so fine.\"\n\n[Chorus]\nThere ain't no man-can save me\nThere ain't no man-can enslave me\nAin't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in\nThere ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear\nCause I got only love to share\nIf you're looking for truth I'm proof you'll find it there\n\n[Verse 3]\nYou got to go somewhere, ain't that true?\nNot a whole lotta time for me or you\nGot a whole lotta reasons to be mad; let's not pick one\nI live in a room at the top of the stairs\nI got my windows wide open and nobody cares\nAnd I got no choice but to get right up when the sun comes through\n\n[Chorus]\nAin't no man-can save me\nThere ain't no man-can enslave me\nThere ain't no man or men that can change the shape my soul is in\n(That can change the shape my soul is in)\nThere ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear\nCause I got only love to share\nIf you're looking for truth I'm proof you'll find it there\nIf you're looking for truth I'm proof you'll find it there\nIf you're looking for truth I'm proof you'll find it"},{"id":349972,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-all-my-mistakes-lyrics","title":"All My Mistakes","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nShooting off vicious collections of words\nThe losers make fact by the things they have heard\nAnd I find myself trying hard to defend them\n\nI made decisions some right and some wrong\nAnd I let some love go I wish wasn't gone\nThese things and more I wish I had not done\n\n[Chorus]\nBut I can't go back\nAnd I don't want to\nCause all my mistakes\nThey brought me to you\n\n[Verse 2]\nI have some \"friends\" they don't know who I am\nSo I write quotations around the word friends\nBut I have a couple that have always been there for me\n\nAnd I missed some fun cause I worked through the dawn\nExpecting your praise when I returned home\nBut I paid the cost cause I got left alone for the songs\n\n[Chorus]\nBut I can't go back\nAnd I don't want to\nCause all my mistakes\nThey brought me to you"},{"id":833466,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-a-lot-of-moving-lyrics","title":"A Lot of Moving","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"A lot of movin', A lot of rollin'\nA lot of drivin', A lot of strollin'\nA lot of leavin' here\nA lot of arrivin' there\nTrying to go just about everywhere\nA lot of thinking about where I'm going next\n\nIf I's a police\nI couldn't catch me\nBecause I'm always up and ready\nA lot of chasin' here\nEscapin' there\nBlue lights flashin' 'round everywhere\nA lot of woo-ooo where am I going next\n\nA lot of movin', A lot of rollin'\nA lot of drivin', A lot of strollin'\nA lot of leavin' here\nA lot of arrivin' there\nTrying to go just about everywhere\nA lot of thinking about where I'm going next\n\nCountry to my left side\nCountry to my right side\nCity to my left side\nCity on my right side\nBanjos and back seats\nSide roads and side streets\nWell if you wanna stay for dinner\nI'll throw my suitcase in the river\nA lot of drinkin' here\nAnd drinkin' there\nI'll play and sing just about any damn where\nA lot of thinkin' about where I'm going next\n\nA lot of movin', A lot of rollin'\nA lot of drivin', A lot of strollin'\nA lot of leavin' here\nA lot of arrivin' there\nTrying to go just about everywhere\nA lot of thinking about where I'm going next"},{"id":833287,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-a-lover-like-you-lyrics","title":"A Lover Like You","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Do I need to tell you?\nI don't need to be untrue\nNot when I have a lover like you\n\nNow it don't take that much thought\nNot with all the love you've got\nAnd you give it to me free\nSome might take that for granted but certainly not me\nNo not when I have a lover like you\n\nI haven't eyes for anyone else\nI'm thinking of you and nobody else\nI haven't eyes for anyone else but you\nYooouuu....\n\nShe may be all on my case\nWant to kiss me on my face\nPut my hands on her waist\nTake me back to her place\nI would happily follow\nBut not when I have a lover like you\n\nI haven't eyes for anyone else\nI'm thinking of you and nobody else\nI haven't eyes for anyone else but you\nBut yooouuu....\nBut yooouuu....\nBut yooouuu....\nBut yooouuu...."},{"id":833825,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-and-it-spread-lyrics","title":"And It Spread","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"There was light in the room\nThen you left and it was through\nThen the frost started in\nMy toes and fingertips\n\nAnd it spread\nAnd it spread into my heart\nAnd it spread\nAnd it spread into my heart\n\nThen for I don't know how long\nI settled in to doing wrong\nAnd as the wind fills the sail\nCame the thought to hurt myself\n\nAnd it spread\nAnd it spread into my home\nAnd it spread\nAnd it spread into my soul\n\nWell there are no lines\nSeparating the truth from the lie\nOh, oh, oh\n\nThen you came back from space\nWith a brand new laugh and a different face\nYou took my hand and held it up\nAnd shot my arm full of love\n\nAnd it spread\nAnd it spread into the world\nAnd it spread\nAnd it spread into the world\n\nWell there are no lines\nSeparating the truth from the lie\nOh, oh, oh\nMmmm"},{"id":202159,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-another-is-waiting-lyrics","title":"Another is Waiting","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"It's a fake, it's a hoax\nIt's a nowhere road where no one goes\nAnywhere, anyhow\nWell you're followin' your heart rate down\n\nShe's a rose, she's a queen\nBut she's starin' at a magazine\nIn the dark, on the path\nWhere they doctor every photograph\n\n[Chorus]\nAnother is waiting\nShe isn't saying anything\n\nIf you care, if you like\nWell, I'm standing in the lantern light\nWith our weapons and our love\nAnd I use them both to cover up\n\n[Chorus]\n\nBut I love you and I care\nSo you got to get off that conveyor belt\nIf I could\nI would come right in and take you off myself\n\nIt's a fake, it's a con\nThe nature of the road you're on\nLets me see your skeleton\nWell before your life is done\n\n[Chorus]"},{"id":1982898,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-another-is-waiting-demo-lyrics","title":"Another is waiting - demo","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"It's a fake\nIt's a hoax\nIt's a nowhere road where no one goes\nAnywhere\nAnyhow\nWhere you're following your heart right down\n\nShe's a rose\nShe's a queen\nBut she's staring at a magazine\nIn the dark\nOn that path\nWhere they doctor every photograph\n\nAnother is waiting\nShe isn't saying anything\n\nIf you care\nIf you like\nWell I'm standing in the lantern light\nWith our weapons\nAnd our love\nAnd I use 'em both to cover up\n\nAnother is waiting\nShe isn't saying anything\n\nBut I love you and I care\nSo you got to get off that conveyor belt\nIf I could I would come right in and take you off myself\n\nIt's a fake\nIt's a con\nThe nature of the road you're on\nLet me see\nYour skeleton\nWell before your life is done\n\nAnother is waiting\nShe isn't saying anything\nAnother is waiting\nShe isn't saying anything"},{"id":3160385,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-another-youngster-lyrics","title":"Another Youngster","albumTitle":"Unreleased (artist: The Avett Brothers)","albumId":408429,"lyrics":"Another youngster who says she doesn't care\nHer number's up; another is waiting there\nJust like that she vanishes in the air\nReplaced with new, not worth repairing\n\nBut you're not like that, and you never were\nAnd your star will shine well past the fragile lights of earth\nThe crowds will come; and the hands of time, they will turn\nAnd you'll live the dream appointed\n\nI was lost somewhere out on the road\nThis old man told me he had no place he had to go\nHe said his life on earth was limited, you know\nHe said he had no need to hurry\n\nI thought of your voice and what lay ahead of you\nAnd if I had it all again, what would I do?\n(Is, this?) my life now more than half of it through\nAm I obsessed with dying?\n\nBut you're not like that, and you never were\nYour star will shine well past the fragile lights of earth\nThe stars will come, and the stars will go\nAnd you'll live the dream appointed"},{"id":256497,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-apart-from-me-lyrics","title":"Apart From Me","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI was scared but I couldn't admit it\nHatred planted out of fear\nFight or flight no choice but to hit it\nThe road, it calls on me my dear\n\nI was lost as lost can be\nBeing praised for being found\nBut all that praise got lost on me\nAs the mood swings headed down\n\n[Hook]\nPart from me\nI would not dare take someone in love with me where I'm going\nApart you'll see how true it is and how back then\nIt possibly was impossible for you or me to know it\n\n[Verse 2]\nYour touch was nothing more\nThan a child's goodbye and hello\nBut it always left me feeling\nWorse when it was time to go\n\n[Hook]\nPart from me\nI would not dare take someone in love with me where I'm going\nApart you'll see how true it is and how back then\nIt possibly was impossible for you or me to know it\n\n[Verse 3]\nAnd most of us out there got fooled\nAs the gold, it glittered in the night\nWe chased it fast like drunk buffoons\nThe banker lived, the artist died\n\nAnd all our clothes were washed in grey\nAll our buildings and our cars\nAnd the florescent lights of day\nBleached the sky into the stars\n\n[Hook]\nPart from me\nI would not dare take someone in love with me where I'm going\nApart you'll see how true it is and how back then\nIt possibly was impossible for you or me to know it"},{"id":833400,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-at-the-beach-lyrics","title":"At the Beach","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"I know that you're smiling, baby\nI don't even need to see your face\nSunset at the shoreline, we are laughing, breaking up\nJust like the waves\nAre you feeling, feeling, feeling like I'm, feeling\nLike I'm floating, floating, up above that big blue ocean\nSand beneath our feet, big blue sky above our heads\nNo need to keep stressing from our everyday life on our minds\nWe have got to leave all that behind\n\nWell, I have got a sister\nAnd she has got a baby with brand new eyes\nAnd her daddy is an engineer\nAnd they just took her to the sea for the first time\nNow they're under, under, underneath a big umbrella\nSummer, summer, summer time to help us forget, nine to fives\nWe have got to leave all that behind\n\nI have worries to give to the sea\nWe can walk dear the pier is farther than it seems\n\nMidnight at the shoreline, fireworks above us\nA screaming bloom\nThey're sent by some teenager and kid whoever you are\nI am thanking you\nNow we're dancing, dancing, dancing with no music\nWhat is happening, happening, happening and no feelings\nExcept this is right\nWe just had to leave all that behind"},{"id":5726200,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-back-into-the-light-lyrics","title":"Back Into The Light","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nAll of these fathers with their bald spots\nPull to the car line dropping kids off\nThe sons and daughters of their parents' wounds\nParents of their own\n\n[Chorus]\nIt'd make some sense if some was made to me\nSometimes I don't see love in anything\nAnd just when I surrender to my shadow\nI snap out of it, and step into the light\nI step back into the light\n\n[Verse 2]\nSometimes my mind feels like a valley\nSo I take it to the bar\nFill it up like an ocean\nTo drown my troubles in\nJust to find out what good swimmers they are\n\n[Chorus]\nIt'd make some sense if some was made to me\nSometimes I don't see love in anything\nAnd just when I surrender to my shadow\nI snap out of it, and step into the light\nI step back into the light\n\n[Verse 3]\nWhen my dreams feel like a rusty rail\nThat I slapped on a coat of paint\nAs the layers cracked, and chipped, and failed\nThis wretched lie is all that remains\n\n[Chorus]\nIt'd make some sense if some was made to me\nSometimes I don't see love in anything\nAnd just when I surrender to my shadow\nI snap out of it, yeah, I snap out of it\nAnd I step into the light\nI step back into the light\nI step into the light\nI step back into the light"},{"id":174199,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-backwards-with-time-lyrics","title":"Backwards With Time","albumTitle":"The Gleam","albumId":36699,"lyrics":"Folk always told me that my heart would grow\nThe older the man, yeah, the stronger the stone\nAm I losing my mind?\nAm I growing backwards with time?\n\nSome say with age that a purpose comes clear\nI see the opposite happening here\nAre we losing the fight?\nAre we growing backwards with time?\n\nI was young and love was fun\nNow it's so serious\nNow all the fun has equal pain\nThere's something wrong with this\nFor all I know there's more I don't\nOh the little I have learned\nFor every year of knowledge gained\nIs a negative year I've earned\n\nFolk always told me that my heart would grow\nThe older the man, yeah, the stronger the stone\nAm I losing my mind?"},{"id":4844937,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-bang-bang-lyrics","title":"Bang Bang","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nAnother bang, bang shoot 'em up movie\nPride and vengeance all around\nAnother bang, bang shoot em' up movie\nMeant to blow my mind, make my heart pound\nBridges and tempers on fire\nPlease turn it off, I'm tired\nOf bang, bang, bang shoot 'em up movies\n\n[Verse 1]\nHave you ever had a gun pointed directly at you\nAnd there isn't any doubt it's loaded and ready to go\nWell I have twice and I don't recall any heroes on the scene\nJust adrenaline and fear and a few souls who have unfortunately seen\n\n[Chorus]\nA lot of bang, bang shoot 'em up movies\nPeople putting people in the ground\nBang, bang shoot 'em up movies\nMeant to turn my head, make my heart pound\nFiction and commerce conspire\nPlease turn it off, I'm tired\nOf bang, bang, bang shoot 'em up movies\n\n[Verse 2]\nI live in the country because I love peace and quiet\nBut all of my neighbors have closets full of machine guns\nAnd every Sunday they're out there, pretending to be Rambo\nAnd I'm in here pretending like Sunday is still sacred\n\n[Bridge]\nConceal and carry your fear\nDon't need no weapons here\nI've had all I can stand\nOf the bloodthirsty leading man\n\n[Verse 3]\nIf you think there isn't any connection between\nAll the violence you see in real life and what's on the screen\nWell, it seems painfully clear to me\nThat you're living in a fantasy\n\n[Outro]\nAnother bang, bang shoot 'em up movie\nLiving room like a battle ground\nA bang, bang shoot 'em up movie\nMeant to push the envelope, make me say \"Wow\"\nIf I never hear gunfire again I'll be fine\nSo please turn it off, I'm tired\nOf bang, bang, bang, bang\nBang, bang, bang\nBang, bang, bang"},{"id":827812,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-bella-donna-lyrics","title":"Bella Donna","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"Baby, I asked you not to keep me waiting\nI told you not to keep me waiting\nNow the afternoon is fading on\n\nDonna, Bella Donna have you seen me\nAnd have you ever really seen me\nLike I want for you to see me now\n\nLonesome, like you were when you were sixteen\nWhen maybe even if I weren't listening\nDid I help when I was kissing you\n\nDonna, Bella Donna are you listening\nAnd were you ever really listening\nLike I want for you to listen now"},{"id":833527,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-beside-the-yellow-line-lyrics","title":"Beside the Yellow Line","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"In time, won't be long\nUntil we meet again\nExcept we'll just be friends\nMy God, yeah I know\nThat's just the way it goes\nOut here on the road\nBeside the yellow line\n\n'Bout five years ago\nI came about this way\nBut I doubt they'll know my face\nThe land hasn't changed\nThe stars still pierce the black\nAnd I'm glad that I came back\nBeside the yellow line\n\nThe mind of a girl\nIt's hard to understand\nBut I guess 'cause I'm a man\nHer heart fears are unknown\nUntil I am gone\nGotta leave her all alone\nBeside the yellow line\n\nAnd the call of the road\nUnlike the railroad tracks\nUnlike the airplane's path\nHer voice floats through the land\nAnd it takes me by the hand\nSo once again I stand\nBeside the yellow line"},{"id":4918099,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-better-here-lyrics","title":"Better Here","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"What can I drink tonight to make it easier on me?\nWhat can I think about to get it off my mind?\nWhat can I say if I can't tell the truth?\nThe only thing that will make it better here\nIs you\nIs you\n\nWhere can I go that I won’t end up lost again?\nWhat do I tell them when they ask?\nDo I pretend and act confused?\nWhen the only thing that will make it better here\nIs you\nIs you\n\nWho's leading here? What are they thinking?\nAll heart, no brains, that's me, that’s me\nWho's left to love when everyone is leaving?\nAll heart, no brains, that's me, that's me\n\nHow can I laugh when I don't think it's funny?\nMy happiness is not your toy\nI won't sit around becoming what I lose\nBut the only thing that'll make it better here\nIs you\nIs you\nIs you\nIs you\nIs you"},{"id":737474,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-black-blue-lyrics","title":"Black, Blue","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"Nobody will call\nNot as long as I keep my phone off the line\nNot as long as I keep my voice down inside of my mouth\nBut it's getting harder to hide\nAnd the brightness of the colors makes it hard to describe\nAnd the voices that seem to come from all sides\nMakes it hard to decide\n\nBlack, blue, her, you\n\nI know a woman who said\n\"Oh if I could only just turn back the clock\nWhen I was still scared and my hair was still dark\nAnd my hands were clean\nBut now all my choices are spent\nAnd the men that I've known, they don't know what I meant\nAnd Cupid's arrow is backwards and bent\nWhen it's flying for me\"\n\nBlack, blue, her, you\nWhite, green, him, me\n\nNobody will say\n\"Oh what a fine, young, upstanding man\nWith his ducks in a row and his fifty-year-plan\nComplete with an ending\"\nBut it's getting harder to see\nAnd the time between daylight seems longer to me\nAnd the person I am, and the person I'll be\nRefuse to meet\n\nBlack, blue, her, you\nWhite, green, him, me"},{"id":4918094,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-bleeding-white-lyrics","title":"Bleeding White","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI'm bleeding white from my clothes\nBut I'm lying in the snow\nSo nobody knows I'm dying\nIf I stand on my feet\nWill the plan be complete\nOr is the plan me not trying?\n\n[Chorus]\nI left you behind\nBut you can find me if I don't wander too far away\n\n[Verse 2]\nPerhaps in another life, I would be more like you\nOr you more like me, let's just disagree\nDon't say you know my type, I'm one of a kind\nLet's thank god for merciful variety\n\n[Chorus]\nI left you behind\nBut you can find me if I don't wander too far away\n\n[Bridge]\nIt's too far along to feign ignorance\nToo far along to play it down\nAnd you're far too smart to fall for\nThe part that I've been playing\n\n[Verse 3]\nYeah, I'm bleeding gold in the streets\nBut there's no one to see\nBecause the kingdom is empty\nThey all left in the night\nSpirits broken in spite\nOf all the promise of morning\n\n[Chorus]\nY'all left me behind, but I can find you\nIf you don't wander too far away\nYeah, if you don't wander too far away\nYeah, if you don't wander too far away\nOh, if you don't wander too far away\nYeah, if you don't wander too far away"},{"id":833178,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-bring-your-love-to-me-lyrics","title":"Bring Your Love To Me","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"Bring your love to me\nI will hold it like a newborn child\nOne of my own blood\nAnd I might just even sing a song to keep it calm\n\nIf you're wondering\nAm I capable, God knows I am\nAnd if it's meant to be\nI will go alone, God knows I can\nJust not as well\nAnd besides what kind of fun is there\nTo be had with no one else\n\nAnd I can only stand here still\nAnd I can only hope you will\nKeep me in focus long enough to tell\nI'm trying to help\nI'm trying to help\nI'm trying to help\n\nBring your love to me\nI will hold it like a dandelion\nOne I want to save\nOne I want to keep from the breeze\nThat follows me and no one else\n\nAnd I can only stand here still\nAnd I can only hope you will\nKeep me in focus long enough to tell\nI'm trying to help\nI'm trying to help\nI'm trying to help"},{"id":2222828,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-causey-commentary-lyrics","title":"Causey Commentary","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Instrumental"},{"id":4788077,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-closer-walk-with-thee-lyrics","title":"Closer Walk With Thee","albumTitle":"American Epic: The Sessions","albumId":344613,"lyrics":"Just a closer walk with Thee\nGrant it, Jesus, is my plea\nDaily walking close to Thee\nLet it be, dear Lord, let it be\n\nI am weak but Thou art strong\nJesus, keep me from all wrong\nI'll be satisfied as long\nAs I walk, let me walk close to Thee\n\nThrough this world of toil and snares\nIf I falter, Lord, who cares?\nWho with me my burden shares?\nNone but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee\n\nWhen my feeble life is o'er\nTime for me will be no more\nGuide me gently, safely o'er\nTo thy Kingdom's shore, to thy shore"},{"id":833549,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-closing-night-lyrics","title":"Closing Night","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"The show was over it's all in the name\nIt never was before but this ain't the same\nSo try to imagine a time and a place\nWhere the enemy won and the hero was slain\n\nAnd poetic justice burns in the minds\nOf five diying soldiers on the front lines\nWith nobody's singing in nobody's ears\nNo one's disappointed, nobody hears\n\nI know a lady, promise her name\nThe price of her visit suffering and pain\nAnd we gladly waited and we gladly paid\nWe watched the sun rise, she never came\n\nAn electric current moves us around\nWe sank to our knees to worship the sound\nBut nobody told us that we'd rise again\nImagine a hero unable to win\nImagine a hero unable to win"},{"id":833322,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-colorshow-lyrics","title":"Colorshow","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Be loud let your colors show\nTry to keep the madness low\nIf they hear and it's wrong\nAnd they come with torches on\nYeah come on\n\nBe loud let your colors show\nTry to keep the madness low\nI tell them no (no) with my hands (no)\nMake them understand the plan of it\nBright and gone\n\nAnd I'm done forever\nIt's you and me forever\nCause I'm done forever\nIt's you and me forever (alright!)\n\n(yeah!)\n\nBe loud let the others know\nFirst a whisper then it grows\nI tell them go with my hands\nMake them understand the last of it\nYeah come on, pain and all\n\nLeave out pack your things and go\nLeave the baby makers home\nThere's a time (now) and a place (now)\nSomeone built to take the race\nWhen it calls you go\n\nHead down don't you make a sound\nKeep your plans all to yourself\nThey'll come true they follow you\nThey're what you're obligated to\nDon't you listen to nobody else\n\nAnd I'm done forever\nIt's you and me forever\nCause I'm done forever\nSee it's you and me forever"},{"id":3020218,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-c-sections-and-railway-trestles-lyrics","title":"C-Sections and Railway Trestles","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Intro]\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum, dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum, dum\n\n[Verse 1]\nYou're long and strong like a railway trestle\nDad's just a muscle and mama just a vessel\nMeant to call, fawn over, nuzzle and nestle\nBut dad's just a bear you can tackle down and wrestle\nSon, give me time I'm a bona fide mess'll\nIf mama says no, maybe dad'll say yes'll\nDid you do wrong? Well, go ahead, confess'll\nDad just a muscle and mama just a vessel\n\n[Verse 2]\nYou all blue and your mama like a rattle\nCame out looking like a Smurf in a battle\nMe in the nosebleeds, mama in the saddle\nBrave like a Sioux brave going into battle\nEmotion going like a stampede of cattle\nReal like rain and coffee in Seattle\nAnesthesiologist fiddle and faddle\nYou all blue and your mama like a rattle\n\n[Chorus]\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum, dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum, dum\n\n[Verse 3]\nOh, life so clear like a Rivera mural\nLucifer's teeth introduce the epidural\nDoctor Jones, do you need a heaven referral?\nGod sent you down to me and my girl\nShe's long and tall and healthy as hell\nBut the plan went to hell when the little fella fell\nBoy went headfirst into her pelvis\n1956, shakin' like Elvis\n\n[Verse 4]\nYesterday-born and already thinkin'\nBody like a Ford and a mind like a Lincoln\nMama and papa in love and sinkin'\nInto a brand new situation drinkin' up\nCoffee like a fish on the second and third shift\nLoving every single ever-loving minute of this\nStanding ovation for the OR specialist\nLet me get close, wanna give my son one kiss\nOn his head\n\n[Chorus]\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum, dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum, dum\n\n[Verse 5]\nPlanning for the future; health and dental\nPicking up my baby boy easy and gentle\nSoup for the family, sausage and lentil\nBeans and greens, arugula and fentel\nDon't never sleep, I'm about to go mental\nBut nothing so far has been accidental\nCan't keep my life, so it's gotta be a rental\nPicking up my baby boy, easy and gentle\n\n[Verse 6]\nOh, you're long and strong like a railway trestle\nDad just a muscle and mama just a vessel\nMeant to call, fawn over, cuddle and nestle\nBut dad's just a bear you can tackle down and wrestle\nYou can have a pop-tent or you can have a castle\nTry to change people but it's gonna be a hassle\nDon't have to be an astronaut for NASA\nBut it's always good to get a gown and a tassel\nSon, have fun with your life it's a drama\nJust one period and all kinds of commas\nNow you got a onesie but then you get pajamas\nYou know you've got me\nAnd you know you've got your mama\n\n[Outro]\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum, dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum, bum-ba-dum-ba-dum\nBum-bum-bum-bum-bum"},{"id":832942,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-dancing-daze-lyrics","title":"Dancing Daze","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"I've seen the way you deal with things\nThe troubles that this life will bring\nIf it gets to you then I can tell by the way you sing\nYou act like it just doesn't mean a thing\n\nI see you dancin all your, dancin all you, dancin all your daze\nMaybe you can tell me how it is you got that way\nDancing all your, dancing all your, dancing all your daze\nCome on, come on there's got to be a way\n\nThere's all these things that get me down\nThis dirty world is full of clowns\nThey'll build you up just so they can knock you down\nLaugh at you while your there on the ground\n\nBut not you..\nI see you dancin all your, dancin all you, dancin all your daze\nMaybe you can tell me how it is you got that way\nDancing all your, dancing all your, dancing all your daze\nCome on, come on there's got to be a way\n\nI really like the way it feels\nI look at you and it's real\n\nI see you dancin all your, dancin all you, dancin all your daze\nMaybe you can tell me how it is you got that way\nDancing all your, dancing all your, dancing all your daze\nCome on, come on that's got to be the way"},{"id":833513,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-denouncing-november-blue-uneasy-writer-lyrics","title":"Denouncing November Blue (Uneasy Writer)","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"November came and went\nLike a summer that I spent\nWith a no name girl that walked in jelly shoes\nI returned to my home\nWith a heart part made of stone\nAnd I cried all night for a girl I never knew\nFrom the east it comes\nHer love and the rising sun\nAnd I pray each time they come, it's not the last\nYou see I've got strong\nI made it through what came along\nBut I can't move on for the beauty of the past\n\nCame across a pretty girl\nFor about a month she was my world\nAnd I held her hand, and swore we'd never part\nI moved on, she stayed behind\nI said I'd call, she said she'd write\nWe lost touch the moment I drove off\nI left town like a gambler with\nThe sense of cashin' all the chips\nBefore I lost them all on a bad deal\nI made believe I was in a race\nDrove ten thousand miles in seven days\nWhile writing a book called \"Being A Free Man\"\nMet more people than the president\nThe good times came and the good times went\nAnd I learned how to ignore my hunger pains\nI looked ahead to the open road, thought about the people and what they know\nAnd wrote a book called \"People Don't Know Nothin\"\n(no matter what they tell ya, man)\n\nOnce I spent my last dime\nAnd counted the ratio of miles to time\nI looked up to my disdain and my surprise\nI had driven my car around the world\nEnded back in the town with the girl\nSo I wrote a book called \"Life in Prison\"\n(Volume. 1)\nI see that girl every now and then\nAnd we drink to having such good friends\nAnd apologize for the way it did not last\nFunny thing that it's all true\nAnd I'll always love November Blue\nBut I turned her down for the beauty of the past\n\nNovember came and went\nLike a summer that I spent\nWith a no name girl that walked in jelly shoes\nI returned to my home\nWith a heart part made of stone\nAnd I cried all night for a girl I never knew"},{"id":833014,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-die-die-die-lyrics","title":"Die Die Die","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"She's fighting with the sky\nShe thinks she can\nLivin' within a lie\nShe thinks she can\n\nNobody knows what lies behind\nThe days before the day we die\nDie die die, die die die die\nDie die die, die die die die\nDie die die\n\nShe puts her hands against\nThe life she had\nLiving with ignorance\nBlissful and sad\n\nNobody knows what lies behind\nThe days before the day we die\nDie die die, die die die die\nDie die die, die die die die\nDie die die\n\nYou can try to swim the sea\nBut say goodbye to you and me-e-e-e\n\nYou can try to swim the sea\nYou can try to hold the breeze\nYou can try to hide the sun\nBut say goodbye to everyone\n\nYou can try to swim the sea\nYou can try to hold the breeze\nYou can try to hide the sun\nBut say goodbye to everyone\n\nYou can try to swim the sea\nYou can try to hold the breeze\nYou can try through skin and bone\nBut you will end up all alo-o-one"},{"id":833451,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-die-then-grow-lyrics","title":"Die Then Grow","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"Can you say your name to me, put mine after yours?\nCan we build a house of glass without windows or doors?\nWill you learn to love yourself the way I know you should?\nWill we find the courage there to call our friendship good?\nCall it good, call it good\n\nThe world is closing in on me, I think it's time I go\nAnd with your sad young eyes you've taught me things I didn't know\nAnd my heart broke down to powder there and I wish I'd let it show\nAnd I listened as you said to me you'd rather die than grow\nDie than grow, die than grow\n\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\nDon't let romance and beating hearts change what we came to do\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\n\nSo I watched as those who ask for love, demanding some respect\nBecame the last in line to have what they come to expect\nAs what nobody taught them that they so rightly deserve\nAnd the hums of their misfortune peaked, the hardest lesson learned\nLeasson learned, lesson learned\n\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\nDon't let romance and beating hearts change what we came to do\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\n\nTo watch us fall is why they came\nAnd fall we did, to the call of the highway\nDon't go home, don't look ahead, don't look behind\nEverything we were is dead\n\nThen a well of hope and talent sprang, and I caught a glimpse of light\nAnd I drank from there as the colors rang out loudly from your eyes\n\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\nDon't let romance or beating hearts change what we came to do\n\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\nAnita, my Anita, I was born to follow you\n\nDie then grow\nDie then grow\nDie then grow\nDie then grow"},{"id":833599,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-distraction-74-lyrics","title":"Distraction 74","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"I was in love with your beauty from the day you walked my way\nOh how I wish that was enough to have made me want to stay\nSee I'm as true as I want to be and I must say my girl\nI tried the best to give to you all of the truest in the world\n\nBut when I left your house that morning in that ragged Thunderbird\nI tried so hard to fight the voices from the devil's that I heard\nSee there's a highway to the right of us I took it a year ago\nAnd since a year ago can't drive past, without turning down that road\n\nAnd I knew it\nI never should have turned the wheel\nAnd I knew it\nThe voices calling me were real\nI knew it\nListen to the song they sing\nI knew I was wrong\nAnd I knew I was wrong\n\nSo give me a try at describing just how difficult it is\nWhen you kinda love two girls to figure out which one you miss\nStumble away from your stairway with your perfume on my clothes\nWell I kinda loved two girls but now I've kinda lost 'em both\n\nAnd I knew it\nI never should have turned the wheel\nAnd I knew it\nThe voices calling me were real\nI knew it\nListen to the song they sing\nI knew I was wrong\nAnd I knew I was wrong\n\nAnd if I could gather up the damage that I rendered in my life\nPlace it on a scale and weigh against the damage done that night\nThen it'd be safe to say the weight of all I did and didn't do\nWould surely float against the lightest wrong I ever did to you"},{"id":2480669,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-divorce-separation-blues-lyrics","title":"Divorce Separation Blues","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI'm gonna keep on livin'\nEven though I sometimes do\nFantasize about disappearin'\nDown in the ocean blue\nJust to get some peace and quiet\nFrom the warfare inside my heart\nWhy, I've been under ear-splittin' fire\nEver since we've been apart\nWell, I’m gonna wash the dishes\nPay the bills and watch the news\n\n[Chorus]\nI got the tough education\nNo celebration\nDivorce separation blues\n\n[Verse 2]\nWell, I'm gonna keep on waking\nAnd rising up before the sun\nAnd lying in the dark wide awake\nWhen everybody else is done\nAnd sleepin' in their bed so peaceful\nDreamin' with the love they choose\n\n[Chorus]\nI got the tough education\nNo celebration\nDivorce separation blues\n\n[Bridge]\nWell, I'll sign on\nThe line beneath my name\nThe road is gone\nI can't go back the way we came\n\n[Verse 3]\nWell neither one of us\nReally wanna hit the town\nWe try to keep our friends at bay\nTry to keep the gossip down\nWell some folks just want the dirt\nAnd don't even care if it's true\nBut then again who care who's talkin'?\nI'm worried for myself and you\n\n[Bridge]\nAnd I'll sign on\nThe line beneath my name\nThe road is gone\nWe can't go back the way we came\n\n[Verse 4]\nThey say one of every two\nBound to be set aflame\nEvery level of resentment\nResponsibility and blame\nWell, now I'm bound to break a promise\nOne I made to God and you\n\n[Outro]\nI got the tough education\nNo celebration\nDivorce separation blues\nI got the tough education\nNo celebration\nBad communication\nWorst interpretation\nLove deprivation\nPain allocation\nSoul devastation\nCold desolation\nLife complication\nResuscitation\nDivorce separation blues"},{"id":101996,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-down-with-the-shine-lyrics","title":"Down With The Shine","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nDown with the shine, the perfect shine\nThat poisons the well, and ruins my mind\nI get took for a ride every time\nDown with the glistening shine\n\n[Verse 1]\nIt's in with the new, and it's out with the old\nOut goes the warm, and in comes the cold\nIt's the most predictable story told\nIn with the young, out with the old\n\n[Chorus]\n\n[Verse 2]\nA belly full of high-dollar wine\nA fat hand, a fat wallet too\nThings change and get strange\nWith the movement of time\nIt's happening right now to you\n\n[Chorus]\n\n[Bridge]\nIt's a real bad time to bring up the truth\nThough we search we found no\nFountain of youth\nNot in Spain, nowhere near anywhere\nClose to here\n\n[Verse 3]\nThere's nothing good because nothing lasts\nAnd all that comes here, it comes to pass\nI would voice my pain but the change wouldn't last\nAll that comes, it comes here to pass\n\n[Chorus]"},{"id":833142,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-do-you-love-him-lyrics","title":"Do You Love Him","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Do you love him? Do you love him? Do you love him, my dear?\nDoes he hold you? Does he hug you? Does he keep you near?\nAnd as you lie together, does he whisper in your ear?\nDo you love him? Do you love him? Do you love him, my dear?\n\nIn the evening, those tired evenings, at twilights first glare\nDoes he lay in your lap? Do you play with his hair?\nAnd when he falls asleep, Do you just stare?\nDo you love him? Do you love him? Do you love him, my dear?\n\nLate in the night when you fear the unknown\nDoes he warm up your mind? As you chill to the bone\nI do love you, I do feel you, Each day and night\nBut I can't tell right from wrong, or fear from insight\nBut you always knew everything and that is what is clear\nDo you love him? Do you love him? Do you love him, my dear?"},{"id":2068139,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-every-morning-song-demo-lyrics","title":"Every morning song - demo","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"Hurt so bad\nYou don't come around here anymore\nWorse than that\nNothing's really helping\nI've been thinking about drinking again\nIt's alright if you finally stop caring\nJust don't go and tell someone that does\n'Cuz even thought I know there's hope in every morning song\nI have to find that mellody alone\nHer name became the flame unto the fire\nMagpie on a wire, warned of those\nDead unto the high\nShamelessly alive until the low\nIt's alright if you finally stop caring\nJust don't go and tell someone that does\n'Cuz even though I know there's hope in every morning song\nI have to find that mellody alone\nWe can go ahead\nIf no one notices\nWhat's the point of it\nI have to ask\nHow you learn to see\nHope eternally\nWhen you're sure to be\nOh even last\nHurt so bad\nMore than I expected that it would\nWorse than that\nIt seems to be lasting just a little longer than it should\nIt's alright if you finally stop caring\nJust don't go and tell someone that does\n'Cuz even though I know there's hope\nIn every morning song\nI have to find that mellody alone\nHave to find that mellody alone\nI have to sing that mellody alone"},{"id":174192,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-famous-flower-of-manhattan-lyrics","title":"Famous Flower of Manhattan","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"And I found a flower in a field\nA field of cars and people\nRows of concrete, paint, and steel\nManhattan is where it grew\nAnd I thought to cut it from its stem\nAnd take it from the cracks\nBetween the bricks that it lay in\nAnd save it from the city strife\nAway from the city life\n\nThen someone they whispered in my ear\nA country girl can't be made out of anybody here\nDon't touch it, it loves you not\nDon’t touch it, it loves you not\n\nCause blue birds don't fly without their wings\nAnd when we put them in a cage\nThe world can't hear them sing\nSo selfish when greed sets in\nPossession, the king of sin\n\nAnd people don't ever let you down\nForever find a way to kill\nWhatever life they've found\nA heart beat and I want it too\nManhattan is where she grew\n\nSo I left and I let the flower be\nAnd yesterday I saw the flower on cable TV\nMuch prettier than here with me\nFor all of the world to see\nMuch prettier than here with me"},{"id":101992,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-february-seven-lyrics","title":"February Seven","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI went on the search for something true\nI was almost there when I found you\nSooner than my fate was wrote\nA perfect blade, it slit my throat\nAnd beads of lust, released into the air\nWhen I awoke you were standing there\n\nI was on the mend when I fell through\nThe sky around was anything but blue\nI found as I regained my feet, a wound across my memory\nThat no amount of stitches would repair\nBut I awoke and you were standing there\n\n[Chorus]\nThere's no fortune at the end of a road\nThat has no end\nThere's no returning to the spoils\nOnce you've spoiled the thought of them\nThere's no falling back to sleep\nOnce you've awakened from the dream\nNow I'm rested and I'm ready\nI'm rested and I'm ready to begin\nI'm ready to begin\n\n[Verse 2]\nI went on the search for something real\nTraded what I know for how I feel\nBut the ceiling and the walls collapsed\nUpon the darkness I was trapped\nAnd as the last of breath was drawn from me\nLight broke in and brought me to my feet\n\n[Chorus]\nThere's no fortune at the end of a road\nThat has no end\nThere's no returning to the spoils\nOnce you've spoiled the thought of them\nThere's no falling back to sleep\nOnce you've awakened from the dream\nNow I'm rested and I'm ready\nI'm rested and I'm ready\nYeah, I'm rested and I'm ready\nI'm rested and I'm ready\nYeah, I'm rested and I'm ready\nI'm rested and I'm ready\nTo begin\nI'm ready to begin"},{"id":174196,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-find-my-love-lyrics","title":"Find My Love","albumTitle":"The Gleam","albumId":36699,"lyrics":"What makes it easy to treat people bad?\nSome things you say and you can't take 'em back\nWhat makes it easy to run from the past\nLike a child runs from the dark?\nWhich is the poison and which is the wine?\nThe scent and the colors are so much alike\nAnd how much of each will it take to decide\nWhen your at the table alone?\nWhere do you go when it's perfectly clear?\nYou might find your way but you won't find it here\nWhat makes it easy to sound so sincere\nWhen you know that you don't care?\nLove gets lost\nLove gets lost\nFind my love\nFind my love\n\nHow can you tell when goodbye means goodbye\nNot just for now, for the rest of your life\nHow can you stand there with love in your eyes\nAnd still be walking away\nLove gets lost\nLove gets lost\nFind my love\nFind my love\nFind my love\nFind my love"},{"id":2672515,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-fisher-road-to-hollywood-lyrics","title":"Fisher Road to Hollywood","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nRegret for every step I took\nFrom Fisher Road to Hollywood\nFeelin' bad and actin' good\nNever was content\nIt was hostel moves and hotel rooms\nWatch my friends promote their dooms\nFrom Pontiac to Newport News\nNothing made much sense\n\n[Verse 2]\nNow I had to leave a few behind\nWhen they replaced the apple wine\nWith cocaine and codeine pills\nI knew I was done\nAnd I didn't really say goodbye\nThey'll walk their path and I'll walk mine\nI will find another way\nTo tear my body down\n\n[Chorus]\nI am staying here with you\nI've done all I know to do\nThey say, \"stand up straight and take your eyes off the wooden floor.\"\nNo, I didn't find what I was looking for\nStill I had to go\nFrom Fisher Road to Hollywood\nStill I had to go\nFrom Fisher Road to Hollywood\n\n[Verse 3]\nThey taught some bigger words to me\nAt the university\nOnly it's a curse to speak\nWithout some regard\nFor the one I'm talking to\nDo I sound like a friend to you?\nAnd do we even speak the same language anymore?\n\n[Chorus]\nI am staying here with you\nI've done all I know to do\nThey say, \"stand up straight and take your eyes off the ballroom floor.\"\nOf course I didn't find what I was looking for\nStill I had to go\nFrom Fisher Road to Hollywood\nStill I had to go\nFrom Fisher Road to Hollywood\nStill I had to go"},{"id":833711,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-four-thieves-gone-lyrics","title":"Four Thieves Gone","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Four thieves gone\nOne woke up\nSaid we can't use the songs we wrote\nSwear I've heard that very line\nI can't claim this music mine\n\nThree thieves left\nOne got smart\nI saw him leaving in his car\nFrom the road\nI heard him scream\nIt lacks originality\n\nTwo thieves left\nThey both agree\nThey live and die off melody\nOne just fell dead\nOn his back\nWhen we listen to the track\n\nOne thief left\nHe went to jail\nHe left a mile on paper trail\nHe's in for life\nHe doesn't care\nIt's worth the songs that put him there\n\nFour thieves gone\nFour thieves gone\nFour thieves gone\nFour thieves gone"},{"id":102001,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-geraldine-lyrics","title":"Geraldine","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"I come from a place where every name\nAnd every face seems so familiar\nIn came Miss Progress in her black dress\nLook at the mess, she is a killer\n\nMuch like you and I\nIn every case that's made\nThere has to be a traitor\nIt's me this time\nAnd I'm trading fun for right\nWill I regret the notion later?\n\nGeraldine's a name that comes to mind\nWhen I go back to reminiscing\nAbilene's a woman for my childhood\nI spent the evenings kissing\n\nI'm a fool for dreaming her alive\nAnd loving something cold and rocky\nThe homophobic gentlemen built barricades\nBut their efforts couldn't stop me\n\nIn came Miss Progress in her black dress\nLook at the mess, she is a killer"},{"id":833250,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-gimmeakiss-lyrics","title":"Gimmeakiss","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Gimme a dance, gimme a chance, gimme your hands\nGive me just a little bit of your sweet romance\nGive me your hands\nI know what they say about me\nHell, I started most of them rumors myself you see\nSo give 'em to me\n\nIt won't take long for me to tell you who I am\nYou hear my voice right now well that's pretty much what I am\n\nSo gimme a smile, gimme a while, gimme a mile\nGive me just a little bit of your sweet devine\nJust give me a smile\nI know what you said about me\nI think maybe if I had a preachin' judge then I'd forgive you see\nSo give 'em to me\n\nIt won't take long for me to tell you what I am\nYou hear my voice right now well that's pretty much what I am\n\nI'm bailin on my life\nCause I'm wailing on my life\nSo please just gimme a kiss\n\nWell I know you're waiting for a ring\nEase up little lady, see, I'm not promising anything\n\nSo gimme a chance, gimme a dance, gimme your hands\nGive me just a little bit of your sweet romance\nJust give me your hands\nI know what they say about me\nHell, I started most of them rumors myself you see\nSo give 'em to me\n\nIt won't take long for me to tell you who I am\nWell you hear this voice right now well that's pretty much all I am\nI'm bailin on my life\nCause I'm wailing on my life\nSo please just gimme a kiss"},{"id":833538,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-good-to-you-lyrics","title":"Good To You","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"I know you were needing more of me than I gave\nWhen we heard your cousin had crashed and passed away\nI hate it when I talk without thinking\nI will do what you are needing me to do\n\nI want to be good to you\nI want to be there for you\nAnd when I come home\nYou still want me to\n\nWhen your best friend got married I was off and gone\nYou said it wasn't a problem that there was nothing wrong with\nPutting my work, my art and my songs\nBefore spending time at the wedding\nAs I listened over the phone line\nYou talked you sounded so sad\nAlone in a room full of strangers\nSome dude saying I treat you so bad\nWho is this guy and what does he know?\nApparently more than I do\n\nI want to be good to you\nI want to be there for you\nAnd when I come home\nWill you still want me to?\nAnd when I come home\nWill you still want me to?\n\nWhen you were born I promised myself\nI'd always be there for you\nTo help you feel safe and never alone\nNo matter what life put you through\nTime passed by, I lost my way\nAnd didn't find it for years\nA strong young woman now stands in her place\nThe child has disappeared\nNow that I'm home\nDo you still want me here?\n\nI want to be good to you\nI want to be there for you\nI want to be good to you\nAnd when I come home\nWill you still want me to?\nAnd if I come home\nWill you still want me to?"},{"id":833896,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-go-to-sleep-lyrics","title":"Go To Sleep","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"Lay back, lay back, go to sleep my man\nWipe the blood from your face and your hands\nForgive yourself if you think that you can\nGo to sleep, go to sleep my man\n\nTwenty-one days lost at sea I fought\nFor twenty-two years non-stop I've talked\nThrough the desert, pissed drunk, and confused I walked\nI spit a tooth in the palm of my hand\n\nLay back, lay back, go to sleep my man\nWipe the blood from your face and your hands\nForgive yourself if you think that you can\nGo to sleep, go to sleep my man\n\nWell, the wind and the trees are ganging up on me\nThey sing my funeral song in harmony\nWell I just want to walk home unaccompanied\nBut they keep singing and singing and singing to me...\nLa, La, La, La, La, La (I hear them singing)\nLa, La, La, La, La, La (Singing for me)\nLa, La, La, La, La, La (Oh!)\n\nWell I wish things were different, true, and deep\nBut everything that's so shallow is everything about me\nYou know they told me I could just take my money and leave\nI hope the people on the ground will understand\nI hope the people in the crowd will understand\n\nLay back, lay back, go to sleep my man\nWipe the blood from you face and your hands\nForgive yourself if you think that you can\nGo to sleep, go to sleep my man\nLa, La\nGo to sleep, go to sleep my man\nLa, La\nGo to sleep, go to sleep my man"},{"id":834356,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-hand-me-down-tune-lyrics","title":"Hand-Me-Down Tune","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"I dreamt of a suit a suit so fine I dressed my words in\nSewn and tailor made with song in mind made of melody\nStitched by threads of notes with perfect pitch, perfectly composed\nSound in tune and key, a code of rhythm, and harmony\nBut when I awoke my coat was worn and my words were plain\nEach song that I sang all the notes were wrong and poorly played\nBoth my sleeves had holes, my knees were patched, my shoes needed soles\nNo clever disguise no way to hide my offensive tone\nBut I, I wish for you more than I can give, than I can do\nYeah you, you deserve the best an anthem not my hand-me-down tune\nYeah you, you deserve the best an anthem not my hand-me-down tune"},{"id":3087566,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-have-you-ever-lyrics","title":"Have You Ever","albumTitle":"Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of the Story (An Album to Benefit War Child)","albumId":345014,"lyrics":"Have you ever wandered lonely through the wood?\nAnd everything it feels just as it should\nYou're part of the life there, part of something good\nIf you've ever wandered lonely through the woods\nOoooh\nIf you've ever wandered lonely through the woods\n\nHave you ever stared into a starry sky?\nLyin on your back you're askin' why?\nWhat's the purpose, I wonder who am I\nIf you've ever stared into a starry sky\nOoooh, aaaah, aaooaaooh\nHave you ever stared into a starry sky\n\nHave you ever been out walking in the snow\nTried to get back where you were before\nYou always end up not knowing where to go\nIf you've ever been out walking in the snow\nOoooh, aaaah, aaooaaooh, ooooh, aaooaaooh\nIf you'd ever been out walking, you would know"},{"id":82131,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-head-full-of-doubt-road-full-of-promise-lyrics","title":"Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nThere’s a darkness upon me that’s flooded in light\nIn the fine print they tell me what’s wrong and what’s right\nAnd it comes in black and it comes in white\nAnd I’m frightened by those that don’t see it\n\n[Verse 2]\nWhen nothing is owed or deserved or expected\nAnd your life doesn’t change by the man that’s elected\nIf you’re loved by someone, you’re never rejected\nDecide what to be and go be it\n\n[Chorus]\nThere was a dream and one day I could see it\nLike a bird in a cage I broke in and demanded that somebody free it\nAnd there was a kid with a head full of doubt\nSo I’ll scream til I die and the last of those bad thoughts are finally out\n\n[Verse 3]\nThere’s a darkness upon you that’s flooded in light\nAnd in the fine print they tell you what’s wrong and what’s right\nAnd it flies by day and it flies by night\nAnd I’m frightened by those that don’t see it\n\n[Chorus]\nThere was a dream and one day I could see it\nLike a bird in a cage I broke in and demanded that somebody free it\nAnd there was a kid with a head full of doubt\nSo I’ll scream til I die and the last of those bad thoughts are finally out\n\n[Instrumental Interlude]\n\n[Chorus]\nThere was a dream and one day I could see it\nLike a bird in a cage I broke in and demanded that somebody free it\nAnd there was a kid with a head full of doubt\nSo I’ll scream til I die and the last of those bad thoughts are finally out\n\n[Outro]\nThere’s a darkness upon me that’s flooded in light\nIn the fine print they tell me what’s wrong and what’s right\nThere’s a darkness upon me that’s flooded in light\nAnd I’m frightened by those that don’t see it"},{"id":4628345,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-high-steppin-lyrics","title":"High Steppin’","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nI'm a-high steppin', high bettin'\nLove givin', I'm a-love gettin'\nI'm a stranger, I love stretchin' out my wheels\nOvernightin' on the desert strip\nMakin' time and losin' grip\nDrivin' circles in the canyons of my mind\n\n[Verse 1]\nI'm an outsider lookin' in\nI got a perfect square for a circle of friends\nIt's the four of us against the rest of you\nBut really I am all alone\nI'd sell 'em out to save my own\nI told them that but they don't buy the truth\n\n[Chorus]\nI'm a-high steppin', high bettin'\nLove givin', I'm a-love gettin'\nI'm a stranger, I love stretchin' out my wheels\nOvernightin' on the desert strip\nMakin' time and losin' grip\nDrivin' circles in the canyons of my mind\n\n[Interlude]\nWell, it's warfare out there, folks\nYou're either working for success\nOr to be rich or, God help us, famous\nOr you're working against the clock just to stay afloat\nGot your nose all scraped up from the grindstone\nYou're digging for diamonds and only finding rhinestones\nMeanwhile, it's August and the tax man has never heard of summer vacation\nYou're either working on yourself or you're lookin' after babies\nTakin' care of your old man or your old lady\nAnd the direct line to the hospital just says \"Leave a message\"\nSee, you can only live one day at a time\nOnly drive one hot rod at a time\nOnly say one word at a time\nAnd only think one thought at a time\nAnd every soul is alone when the day becomes night\nAnd there in the dark if you can try to see the light\nIn the most pitch black shape of the loneliest shadow\nWell, then you ought to sleep well\n'Cause there's hope for sure\nWell, I don't know about all that being true, but\nI do know this\n\n[Verse 2]\nThe best beggars are choosers\nThe best winners are losers\nThe best lovers ain't never been loved\nAnd first place ain't easy\nThe hardest part is believing\nThe very last word is love\n\n[Chorus]\nI'm a-high steppin', high bettin'\nLove givin', I'm a-love gettin'\nI'm a stranger, I love stretchin' out my wheels\nOvernightin' on the desert strip\nMakin' time and losin' grip\nDrivin' circles in the canyons of my mind"},{"id":66570,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-and-love-and-you-lyrics","title":"I and Love and You","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nLoad the car and write the note\nGrab your bag and grab your coat\nTell the ones that need to know\nWe are headed north\nOne foot in and one foot back\nIt don't pay to live like that\nSo I cut the ties and I jumped the tracks\nFor never to return\n\n[Chorus]\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\nAre you aware the shape I'm in?\nMy hands, they shake, my head, it spins\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\n\n[Verse 2]\nWhen at first I learned to speak\nI used all my words to fight\nWith him and her and you and me\nOh, but it's just a waste of time\nIt's such a waste of time\nThat woman she's got eyes that shine\nLike a pair of stolen polished dimes\nShe asked to dance I said it's fine\nI'll see you in the morning time\n\n[Chorus]\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\nAre you aware the shape I'm in?\nMy hands, they shake, my head, it spins\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\n\n[Bridge]\nThree words that became hard to say\nI and love and you\nWhat you were then, I am today\nLook at the things I do\n\n[Chorus]\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\nAre you aware the shape I'm in?\nMy hands, they shake, my head, it spins\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\n\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\nAre you aware the shape I'm in? (Oh!)\nMy hands, they shake, my head, it spins (spins)\nOh Brooklyn, Brooklyn take me in\n\n[Outro]\nDumbed down and numbed by time and age\nThe dreams the catch, the world the cage\nThe highway sets the traveler's stage\nAll exits look the same\nThree words that became hard to say\nI and love and you\nI and love and you\nI and love and you"},{"id":174156,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-if-its-the-beaches-lyrics","title":"If It’s The Beaches","albumTitle":"The Gleam","albumId":36699,"lyrics":"Don't say it's over\nCause that's the worst news I\nCould hear I swear that I will\nDo my best to be here\nJust the way you like it\nEven though its hard to hide\nPush my feelings all aside\nI will rearrange my plans and\nChange for you\n\nIf I could go back\nThat's the first thing I would do\nI swear that I would\nDo my best to follow through\nCome up with a master plan\nA homerun hit, a winning stand\nA guarantee and not a promise\nThat I'll never let your love\nSlip from my hands\n\nIf it's the beaches\nIf it's the beaches' sands you want\nThen you will have them\nIf it's the mountains' bending rivers\nThen you will have them\nIf it's the wish to run away\nThen I will grant it\nTake whatever you think of\nWhile I go gas up the truck\nPack the old love letters up\nWe will read them when\nWe forget why we left here"},{"id":5726203,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-go-to-my-heart-lyrics","title":"I Go To My Heart","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nWhat do I get when I find out I am nothing?\nWho am I without my name?\nHow do I stop this emptiness from growing?\nThe dumb instructions coming from my brain\n\n[Chorus]\nI go to my heart or my knees\nBegging \"Take me, darling, please\"\nI will follow you\nI promise I have changed\nI've been gone for years, I know\nBut I am back for good to show\nI will never stray from you like that again\n\n[Verse 2]\nWhat do I do when my body lets me down?\nWho am I without dark hair and a pair of working hands?\nHow do I stop this outro that I'm headed for?\nWhere do I turn when I can't take it anymore?\n\n[Chorus]\nI go to my heart or my knees\nBegging \"Take me, darling, please\"\nI will follow you\nI promise I have changed\nI've been gone for years, I know\nBut I am back for good to show\nThat I will never stray from you like that again\nNo, I will never stray from you like that again"},{"id":833189,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-killed-sallys-lover-lyrics","title":"I Killed Sally’s Lover","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Somebody get my shotgun\nSomebody get my blade\nSally's been layin' with another man\nAnd he's sleeping in my place\nSomebody get my shotgun\nGonna shoot him sure as rain\nYou can run as fast as you want to boy\nI'll kill you just the same\n\nSomebody get my pocket blade\nGonna cut him don't you know\nYou can try to hide all you want to boy\nThere ain't nowhere to go\nSomebody get my shotgun\nSomebody get my blade\nSally's been layin' with another man\nAnd he's sleeping in my place\n\nNow Sally don't go thinkin'\nThat you got off so clean\nI'd kill you too if I had the nerve\nBut I just ain't that mean\nSo I go and get my murder tools\nI throw them in the lake\nGonna steal me an automobile\nAnd drive so far away\nNow I am a fugitive\nI'm always on the run\nSally told the policeman\nExactly what I'd done\nI went and got my shotgun\nI went and got my blade\nKilled poor Sally's lover\nAnd I put him in the grave\n\nNow all you ramblin' fellas\nYou listen close to me\nThat woman gonna bring you pain\nYour heart is gonna bleed\nBut it ain't worth the trouble\nThe sufferin' or the grief\nA bleeding heart is better than the penitentiary\nI killed Sally's lover\nOne dark and dreary day\nSally got another\nAnd I got sent away\nSomebody get my shotgun\nSomebody get my blade\nSally's been laying with another man\nAnd I set him in his grave"},{"id":1763351,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-ill-with-want-lyrics","title":"Ill With Want","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"I am sick with wanting and it's evil and it's daunting\nHow I let everything I cherish lay to waste\nI am lost in greed, this time it's definitely me\nI point fingers but there's no one there to blame\n\nA need for something, now let me break it down again\nA need for something but not more medicine\n\nI am sick of wanting and it's evil how it's got me\nAnd every day is worse than the one before\nThe more I have the more I think I'm almost where I need to be\nIf only I could get a little more\n\nA need for something, now let me break it down again\nA need for something but not more medicine\n\nSomething has me, oh something has me\nActing like someone I don't wanna be\nSomething has me, oh something has me\nActing like someone I know isn't me\nIll with want and poisoned by this ugly greed\n\nTemporary is my time, ain't nothing on this world that's mine\nExcept the will I found to carry on\nFree is not your right to chose\nIt's answering what's asked of you\nTo give the love you find until it's gone\n\nA need for something, now let me break it down again\nA need for something but not more medicine\n\nSomething has me, oh something has me\nActing like someone I don't wanna be\nSomething has me, oh something has me\nActing like someone I know isn't me\nIll with want and poisoned by this ugly greed\nIll with want and poisoned by this ugly greed\nIll with want and poisoned by this ugly greed"},{"id":833780,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-love-lyrics","title":"I Love","albumTitle":"Sweetheart: Our Favorite Artists Sing Their Favorite Love Songs (2010)","albumId":424648,"lyrics":"I love little baby ducks\nOld pickup trucks\nSlow movin' trains\nAnd rain\n\nI love little country streams\nSleep without dreams\nSunday school in May\nAnd hay\n\nAnd I love you too\n\nI love leaves in the wind\nPictures of my friends\nBirds of the world\nAnd squirrels\n\nI love coffee in a cup\nLittle fuzzy pups\nBourbon in a glass\nAnd grass\n\nAnd I love you too\n\nI love honest open smiles\nKisses from a child\nTomatoes on the vine\nAnd onions\n\nI love winner's when they cry\nLoser's when they try\nMusic when it's good\nAnd life\n\nAnd I love you too\nAnd I love you too"},{"id":834231,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-love-you-still-lyrics","title":"I Love You Still","albumTitle":"The Avett Brothers","albumId":187257,"lyrics":"Two AM, the night is clear and cool\nTo be out at this hour, decent folk would tell me I'm a fool\nBut leaving Jenny's arms feels like a sin\nI want to run back to her bed and hold her 'til the sun comes up again\n\nHave I changed your life?\nI love you still and I always will\n\nFour AM, the night is over soon\nHer eyes, they shine like diamonds, they glow just like the stars in her old room\nAnd I know we make each other mad sometimes\nBut love is behind all of it, and we'll still be in love when pain subsides\n\nNow I hope I've changed your life\nI hope you can be forever with me\n\nThree years and counting\nThe three best years of my life\nBut don't confuse our love with memories\nYou know the best is yet to come\n\nTwo AM, and I'm on my way home\nI think of no one but you\nI sing my song for you and you alone\n\nAnd I'm glad you changed my life\nNow I love you still\nAnd I love you still\nAnd I love you still"},{"id":833655,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-incomplete-and-insecure-lyrics","title":"Incomplete and Insecure","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"I haven’t finished a thing since I started my life\nI don’t feel much like starting now\nWalking now lonely has worked like a charm\nI’m the only one I have to let down\n\nBut watching you makes me think that that is wrong\n\nI can go on with my insecure nature\nI can keep living off sympathy\nI can tell all the people that all of their success\nIs a direct reflection on me\n\nBut watching you makes me think that that is wrong\n\nWhat is important, what’s really important?\nAm I not to know by my name?\nWill I ever know silence, without mental violence\nWill the ringing at night go away?\n\nIt’s up to you, my father, call on me\n\nI haven’t finished a thing since I started my life\nI don’t feel much like starting now\n\nI haven’t finished a thing since I started my life"},{"id":90825,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-never-knew-you-lyrics","title":"I Never Knew You","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Spoken Intro]\n\n[Hook]\nWell I guess it's kind of funny how\nI loved you so way back when\nYou say I wouldn't know you now\nWell I didn't even know you then\n\n[Verse 1]\nWe change a lot\nAnd no one here can stop\nThat train before\nIt gets to where it's going\nAt all\n\n[Hook]\nSo I guess it's kind of funny how\nI loved you so way back when\nYou say I wouldn't know you now\nWell I didn't even know you then\n\n[Bridge]\nI heard about the company you're keeping\nAnd from someone who didn't have much interest\nIn keeping us apart\n\n[Hook]\nSo I guess it's kind of funny how\nI loved you so way back when\nYou say I wouldn't know you now\nWell I didn't even know you then\n\n[Verse 2]\nAnd so I go out Friday night\nAnd talk to anyone I can\nIf they can see me they can hear me\nRun my mouth\nI tell them all\nI'd love to see you once again\nOr maybe\nJust run into you hanging out\nHanging out\n\nYou know I lie, so it comes as no surprise\nWhen I admit that I don't really want to reunite\n\n[Hook]\nSo I guess it's kind of funny how\nI loved you so way back when\nYou say I wouldn't know you now\nWell I didn't even know you then\nSo I guess it's kind of funny how\nI loved you so way back when\nYou say I wouldn't know you now\nWell I didn't even know you then\nNo I didn't even know you then\nNo I didn't even know you then"},{"id":833506,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-in-the-curve-lyrics","title":"In The Curve","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"I've never taken this curve\nDrivin' this fast before\nA glowing stop sign\nBut both lanes are mine\nNo seat belts attached to my door\n\nWell my speed meter don't work\nSo I'm going to guess ninety-five\nWell maybe I'll fix it\nAnd maybe I won't\nIt depends on my being alive\n\nWell my bottle of bourbon is gone\nSee it flew away all by itself\nSo if ever you find it\nMy photo will go behind it\nIn memory of me on your shelf\n\nWell it's been raining all day\nAnd it's been raining all night\nA slip 'n slide highway\nAnd I'm moving sideways\nI'm loose but my steering wheels tight\n\nWell my '63 Ford is a bull\nShe's four thousand pounds at least\nBut metal surrenders\nWhen oak trees meet fenders\nAnd engines go through the front seat\n\nWell I lost control in the curve\nAnd a gas line broke in the wreck\nI walked from the ashes\nWith just a few scratches\nMy crucifix warm on my neck\n\nWell the good Lord was with me tonight\nJust ridin' beside me tonight\nAnd now we're just talking\nWe're hitchhikin' walkin'\nWe'll see you in Concord tonight\n\nYeah, now were just walking\nWe're just hitchhiking talkin'\nWe'll see you in Concord tonight"},{"id":5726198,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-shouldve-spent-the-day-with-my-family-lyrics","title":"I Should’ve Spent The Day With My Family","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI woke up very early like I tend to do most days\nGathered up my clothes, my watch, and pocket knife\nIt would be almost an hour before the sun would show it's face\nAnd I tried to be quiet so as not to wake my wife\nTurning on my phone was the first mistake I made\nMy heart sunk when I read the first headline\nThere had been another shooting and this time not so far away\nAnd a child who lost his life looked awful lot like mine\n\n[Verse 2]\nI sat there in the dark for I don't know how long\nWithout the first idea of what to do\nI walked into the kitchen and turned the coffee maker on\nAnd stood there feeling hopeless and staring at the moon\nAnd when the house got lively, I was working double time\nScrambling eggs and trying not to cry\nJennifer was getting Isaac dressed and packed for school\nI was wondering when God left and why he didn't say goodbye\n\n[Chorus]\nI should've spent the day with my family\nInstead I tried and failed to work all day long\nLord, I should have spend the day with my family\nOn days like this, they alone make me want to carry on\n\n[Verse 3]\nThroughout the day I kept hearing all the details\nThough I didn't check in much but watch the news\nSome tragedies you know, they have no explanation\nAnd the word \"everything\" don't cover what you lose\nSo I spend the whole day pacing back and forth all by my lonesome\nQuestioning the point in trying to write a song\nAnd it sure is hard to focus on anything on all\nAnd you can't get something right when everything feels wrong\n\n[Chorus]\nI should've spent the day with the family\nInstead I tried and failed to work all day long\nI should've spend the day with family\nOn days like this they alone make me want to carry on\n\n[Verse 4]\nBy sundown I was worn out, no closer to understanding\nThe evil things that happen everyday\nMy wife and I shared a beer and talked about the future\nAgreeing on the fact that we would have to find a way\nThough sometimes I don't know how this world continues turning\nWhat has happened will never be undone\nBut tomorrow I think I'll just try to keep the day wide open\nAnd as much as they will have me, be with people that I love"},{"id":834167,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-it-goes-on-and-on-lyrics","title":"It Goes On and On","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"I lost my fear in your arms\nI lost my tears in your car\nI lost my will in your candle-lit eyes\nAnd all my love in your yard\n\nBaby would you leave me if you knew that I was making it up?\nAnd underneath the love you got to wonder am I giving you up\n\nNo way am I\nIt goes on\n\nViolent is the motion in my heart and in my body and mind\nAnd silent is the feeling that I lost but I'm determined to find\nAnd love is but an ocean, unrealistic notion\nBut I cling to her devotion and I let it pull me down to the floor\n\nIt goes on, on, on, on\nIt goes on, on, on, on\nIt goes on, on, on, on\nIt goes on, on, on\n\nI found my will in your car\nI caught my tears in your arms\nI found my self on that poor county drive\nAnd found my love in your yard\n\nOH! Baby would you leave me if you knew that I was making it up?\nAnd underneath the love you got to wonder am I giving you up\n\nNo way am I\n\nIt goes on, on, on, on\nIt goes on, on, on, on\nIt goes on, on, on, on\nIt goes on, on, on\n\nIt goes on, on, on"},{"id":4918102,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-its-raining-today-lyrics","title":"It’s Raining Today","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nIt's raining today, let's stay in our room\nBe patient, babe, the clouds will break soon\nBut I must confess, I'm glad if they stay\nI don't want to leave, it's raining today\n\n[Chorus]\nHere and then gone, invisible dawn\nAll of the edges are frayed\nNo warmth on my shoulders\nNo breeze to carry these old worries away\nMy hat's on the porch, it's heavy and soaked\nI'm on the steps and I don't have a coat\nWhat do I do?\nWhat can I say?\n\n[Verse 2]\nIt's raining today, the house framing crew\nAll can sleep in, the brick masons, too\nThe boss wants it done, but he'll have to wait\nI can't go to work, it's raining today\n\n[Verse 3]\nIt's raining today, what does it mean?\nProbably not much of anything\nStill, I can't resist, to let my thoughts stray\nWhat harm will it do? It's raining today\n\n[Chorus]\nHere and then gone, invisible dawn\nAll of the edges are frayed\nNo warmth on my shoulders\nNo breeze to carry these old worries away\nMy hat's on the porch, it's heavy and soaked\nI'm on the steps and I don't have a coat\nWhat do I do?\nWhat can I say?\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nIt's raining, it's raining\nIt's raining, it's raining\nIt's raining, it's raining\nIt's raining, it's raining"},{"id":2672255,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-wish-i-was-lyrics","title":"I Wish I Was","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI wish I was a flame dancing in a candle\nLighting up your living room, high on a mantle\nI could bring some romance without any scandal\nAnd then when you were done, you'd just put me out\n\n[Verse 2]\nI wish I was a tune you sang in your kitchen\nPutting your groceries away and washing your dishes\nI could float around your tongue and ease the tension\nAnd then when you were done, you'd just quiet down\n\n[Chorus]\nBut if I get too close\nWill the magic fade?\nWould I turn you off or away?\nIf I pull you in\nWould I push you out\nOf something here you care about?\nI'm at a loss for what to do\nI'm drawn to you\n\n[Verse 3]\nI wish I was a sweater wrapped around your hips\nAnd when it got too cold, into me you'd slip\nAnd when the sun came back, you would hang me up\nAnd I would watch you while you undress\n\n[Chorus]\nBut if I get too close\nWill the magic fade?\nWould I turn you off or away?\nIf I pull you in\nNow would I push you out\nOf something here you care about?\nWell I'm at a loss for what to do\nBut I'm drawn to you\n\n[Outro]\nI'm not a song\nI'm not a sweater\nI'm not a fire\nI'm something better\nI'm a man in love writing you a letter\nWill you take it?\nWill you keep it?\nWill you read it?\nBelieve it\nI love you\nI'm sorry"},{"id":833995,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-i-would-be-sad-lyrics","title":"I Would Be Sad","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"I would be sad because you left me all alone\nI would be sad because the lies that you had told\nI would be sad because I got left by a girl that I adore\nI would be sad because the love I’ve had before\n\nI meant what I said when I said I would settle down with you\nAlthough I know it’s not something that you were asking me to do\nAnd I know we are young but we won’t always be so marry me\nLet’s not be that predictable young couple changing moving on\nBut I can tell by watching you that there’s no chance of pushing through\nThe odds are so against us you know most young love it ends like this\n\nI would be sad because you left me all alone\nI would be sad because the lies that you had told\nI would be sad because I got left by a girl that I adore\nI would be sad for all the love I’ve had before\n\nI meant what I said when I said I would rearrange my plans and change for you\nYou know me I’ve always been the kind with easy confidence\nConfident enough to honestly believe that nothing out there\nIs stopping me especially not someone who’s not loving me\nNow listen here I told you I could live on without loving you\nI was bluffing then but it seems that just might have been the truth\nWell my dad told me one-day son this girl will think of what she’s done\nAnd hurting you will be the first of many more regrets to come\nAnd he said if she doesn’t call than it’s her fault and it’s her loss\nI say it’s not that simple see but then again it just may be\n\nI would be sad because you left me all alone\nI would be sad for the lies that you had told me\nI would be sad because I got left by a girl that I adore\nI would be sad for all the love I had before\nI would be sad for all the love I had before"},{"id":349866,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-january-wedding-lyrics","title":"January Wedding","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"She keeps it simple\nAnd I am thankful for her kind of lovin'\nCause it's simple\n\nNo longer do we wonder if we're together\nWe're way past that\nAnd I've already asked her\nSo in January we're gettin' married\n\nShe's talkin' to me with her voice\nDown so low I barely hear her\nBut I know what she's sayin'\nI understand because my heart and hers are the same\nAnd in January we're gettin' married\n\nAnd I was sick with heartache\nAnd she was sick like Audrey Hepburn when I met her\nBut we would both surrender\nTrue love is not the kind of thing you should turn down\nDon't ever turn it down\n\nI hope that I don't sound too insane when I say\nThere is darkness all around us\nI don't feel weak but I do need sometimes for her to protect me\nAnd reconnect me to the beauty that I'm missin'\nAnd in January we're gettin' married\n\nNo longer does it matter what circumstances we were born in\nShe knows which birds are singin'\nAnd the names of the trees where they're performin' in the mornin\nAnd in January we're gettin' married\nCome January let's get married"},{"id":833638,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-jenny-and-the-summer-day-lyrics","title":"Jenny and the Summer Day","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"What a darling summer time\nI have a car, I have a dime\nBaby, Baby\nI know that won't buy anything\nBut I would steal you anything\nBaby, Baby\nThe sun is hot, the wind is cool\nAnd we are finally out of school\nBaby, Baby\nWell I'm in love what can I say\nWith Jenny and the summer day\nBaby, Baby, Baby\n\nWhat a darling summer time\nCome on in the water's fine\nBaby, Baby\nI know that you're afraid to swim\nSo I'll stay in the shallow end\nBaby, Baby\nThe sun is hot, your touch is cool\nAnd we are finally out of school\nBaby, Baby\nWell I'm in love what can I say\nThe sunlight burned my fear away\nBaby, Baby\n\nNinety and risin'\nSoon we'll have to hide out in the shade\nSomewhere it's rainin'\nAnd baby I can almost hear you say\nThat you love me\nAnd the summer day\nThat you love me\n\nWhat a darling summer time\nI have a home in Carolina\nBaby, Baby\nNot far from the city lights\nBut we can see the stars at night\nBaby, Baby\nThe day was hot, tonight is cool\nAnd we are finally out of school\nBaby, Baby\nWell I'm in love what can I say\nWith Jenny and the summer day\nBaby, Baby, Baby\n\nNinety and risin'\nSoon we'll have to hide out in the shade\nSomewhere it's rainin'\nAnd baby I can almost hear you say\nThat you love me\nAnd the summer day\nThat you love me"},{"id":833405,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-kick-drum-heart-lyrics","title":"Kick Drum Heart","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"The footprints over the snow\nThe fabric over the lonely\nC-Covering only\nThe fables and hands\nThe rest is out in the cold\nHolding the last of the season\nF-F-F-Freezin'\nYe-ah\n\nMy-my-my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my love like a voice\n\nWe're walkin' into the fields\nWe're walkin' into the forest\nThe moon is before us\nUp above\nWe're holdin' hands in the rain\nS-Sayin' words like I love you\nD-D-Do you love me?\nYe-ah\n\nMy-my-my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my love like a voice\n\nMother Mary heard us approaching her door\nThough we didn't make a sound\n\nThere's nothing like finding gold\nWithin the rocks hard and cold\nI'm so surprised to find more\nAlways surprised to find more\n\nI won't look back anymore\nI left the people that do\nIt's not the chase that I love\nIt's me following you\n\nMy, my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my heart like a kick drum\nMy, my love like a voice\nMy, my heart like a kick drum"},{"id":832874,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-kind-of-in-love-lyrics","title":"Kind of in Love","albumTitle":"The Avett Brothers","albumId":187257,"lyrics":"She's as sweet as the summer time\nAnd strong as the sunshine\nAnd I don't want to know her\nI let myself down\n\nI'm cold as a winter's storm\nI'm soft as a grind stone\nAnd I can't do a thing\nTo flag my life down\n\nWhy do you amaze me?\nWhy do you amaze me?\nWhy do you fool me into thinkin' that I'm kind of in love with you?\n\nShe's good as a mystery\nA salesman for misery\nAnd I am bankrupt\nIn debt to my knees\n\nBig brown eyes and curly hair\nI wonder if she sees me stare\nI can't say why I've fallen\nBabe, please have mercy\n\nWhy do you amaze me?\nWhy do you amaze me?\nWhy do you fool me into thinkin' that I'm kind of in love with you?\n\nWe sink like a ball and chain\nIf I knew more than your first name\nThose eyes you got can't fool me\nI know how this goes\n\nWe'd wrap ourselves in conversation\nYou tell lies and try my patience\nBite my tongue in frustration\nOr you slap my face\n\nWhy do you amaze me?\nWhy do you amaze me?\nWhy do you fool me into thinkin' that I'm kind of in love with you?"},{"id":833715,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-laser-pants-lyrics","title":"Laser Pants","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Seth Avett: Fire laser pants at will\nScott Avett: Fire laser pants at will?\nSeth Avett: I will try\nScott Avett: Don't get 'em mixed up with your lazy pants\nSeth Avett: Don't get 'em mixed up with your lazy boy. Lazy boys\nSeth Avett: Sitting at a lazy boy wearing all my lazy pants, I looked over to my closet, took a laser glance\nSeth Avett: ...laser dance. I bet Katie's got a laser boy"},{"id":834182,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-laundry-room-lyrics","title":"Laundry Room","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"Don't push me out\nJust a little longer\nStall your mother\nDisregard your father's words\n\nClose the laundry door\nTiptoe across the floor\nKeep your clothes on\nI got all that I can take\nTeach me how to use\nThe love that people say you made\n\nStop your parents' car\nI just saw a shooting star\nWe can wish upon it\nBut we won't share the wish we made\nBut I can't keep no secrets\nI wish that you would always stay\n\nLast night I dreamt the whole night long\nI woke with a head full of songs\nI spent the whole day\nI wrote 'em down, but its a shame\nTonight I'll burn the lyrics\nCause every chorus was your name\n\nBreak this tired old routine\nAnd this time don't make me leave\n\nI am a breathing time machine\nI'll take you all for a ride"},{"id":833685,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-left-on-laura-left-on-lisa-lyrics","title":"Left on Laura, Left on Lisa","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Nobody knows it but I am so sad\nNobody knows it but I am so sad\nAnd that is the saddest of all my girl\nThat is the saddest of all\n\nWe climbed the ladder to the top of my house\nNever letting go of your hand\nThe sky trades the moon for the sun my girl\nThe sky trades the moon for the sun\n\nAnd I gave to you my ugly brown coat\nYou made it pretty when you put it on\nWarmth in the early morning chill my girl\nWarmth in the early April\n\nThen you said you'd trade the love of a man\nTears fell soft from your face to my hands\nSaid you'd trade your heart for mine my girl\nI traded my heart for those days\n\nAnd you made it clear it was strictly a deal\nOf springtime love and that's how I should feel\nSo I set the clock back an hour my girl\nI set the time a just right\n\nYou see somewhere back there when I was boy\nFurious I had become by the point\nThat men are just liars and thieves of sorts\nMen are just liars and thieves\n\nBut I still believe and I stand by my words\nI don't know what you have seen or you've heard\nBut somebody's lying to you my girl\nSomebody's lying to you\n\nYou really made me believe I could stay\nPart with you actions in part what you said\nBut that was just foolish pride my girl\nAnd those are only feelings inside\n\nSo I'm going back to the place where we met\nI'm going to find the beer bottle we left\nWedged in the limbs of the tree that we sat in\nWedged in the magnolia tree\n\nWell we hid for days like a proud pair of thieves\nToo sure we were right too stubborn too leave\nWasted with the moment we lifted my girl\nStolen forever with you"},{"id":833686,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-let-myself-live-lyrics","title":"Let Myself Live","albumTitle":"The Avett Brothers","albumId":187257,"lyrics":"The night just got darker\nThe moon fell out of sight\nGod's hopeful stars\nWere drained of all their light\nA dear friend of mine\nWho fell on hard times\nHe thinks his house will clean\nIf he shares with me mine\n\nI never dream of you a lonely man\nI used to grab at truth with those same strong hands\nThen when I got sick through the thin and then the thick\nI turn my back and I let myself live\n\nWell the nights only get longer\nBefore your sun will shine\nLeave the clock alone my brother\nYour enemy is time\nRemember what the ramblin man said\nOn his way back home\nDon't hang your head much longer\nThere's more pretty girls than one\n\nI never dream of you a lonely man\nI used to grab at truth with those same strong hands\nThen when I got sick through the thin and then the thick\nI turn my back and I let myself live"},{"id":832783,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-letter-to-a-pretty-girl-lyrics","title":"Letter to a Pretty Girl","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Hey, hey, Carla\nIt's a long way to Missouri\nFrom this highway\nEast of Roanoke\nWe had a moment\nThat felt like summer\nNow in slumber\nI can see your smile\nWe drive for miles\nThrough corporate Ohio\nRest stops in West Virginia\nTraffic in Washington DC\nBut of all the scenes that I see\nPlayed out this window to the left of me\nThe thought of you it shines\nThe band plays on, I keep the time\n\nWe play in the night time\nAwake before sunrise\nWipe the sleep from my eyes\nCoffee my best friend\nYou dance between classes\nComplete difficult assignments\nWonder where the time went\nOut drinking with your friends\nWe see a lot of beauty\nSome becomes ordinary\nMountains, and canyons, and prairies\nSunset over Chesapeake Bay\nDear, dear Carla\nIt's only that I'm askin'\nMake time more easy for the passin'\nIf I knew I would see you again\nOf all the beauty that I see\nOut this window to the left of me\nThe thought of you it shines\nThe band plays on, I keep the time\nThe time is marked, between the lines\nHmmm... I keep the time"},{"id":102005,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-life-lyrics","title":"Life","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nOne comes of it, love it, love it\nLet go of it, love comes from it\nWe're not of this world for long\nFaith and promise, keep me honest\nWhen starvation falls upon us\nDaylight told me he would be\nGone with cold words spoke among hers\nWretched is the tongue of their world\nWe're not of that world at all\nWe never will be\n\n[Chorus]\nWouldn't it be fine to stand behind\nThe words we say in the best of times\nOh, and you and I know all too well\nAbout the hell and paradise right here on earth\n\n[Verse 2]\nKeep it, use it, build it, move it\nClaims can't touch how time will prove it\nWatch us fly as loud as we can\nLet her heartbeat change what I am now\n\n[Chorus]\nWouldn't it be fine to stand behind\nThe words we say in the best of times\nOh, and you and I know all too well\nAbout the hell and paradise right here on earth"},{"id":90817,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-live-and-die-lyrics","title":"Live and Die","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nAll it'll take is just one moment\nAnd you can say goodbye to how we had it planned\nFear like a habit, run like a rabbit out and away\nThrough the screen door to the unknown\n\n[Bridge]\nAnd I wanna love you and more\nI wanna find you and more\nWhere do you reside?\nWhen you hide, how can I find you?\nCause I wanna send you and more\nI wanna tempt you and more\nCan you tell that I am alive?\nLet me prove it\n\n[Hook]\nYou and I, we're the same\nLive and die, we're the same\nHear my voice, know my name\nYou and I, we're the same\n\n[Verse 2]\nLeft like a pharaoh, sing like a sparrow anyway\nEven if there is no land or love in sight\nWe bloom like roses, lead like Moses out and away\nThrough the bitter crowd to the daylight\n\n[Bridge]\nAnd I wanna love you and more\nI wanna find you and more\nCan you tell that I am alive?\nLet me prove it to you\n\n[Hook]\nYou and I, we're the same\nLive and die, we're the same\nYou rejoice, I complain\nBut you and I, we're the same\nLive and die, we're the\nYou and I, we're the same\nHear my voice, know my name\nYou and I, we're the same\n\n[Bridge]\nI wanna love you and more\nI wanna find you and more\nWhere do you reside?\nWhen you hide, how can I find you?\nCause I wanna send you and more\nI wanna tempt you and more\nCan you tell that I am alive?\nLet me prove it\n\n[Hook]\nYou and I, we're the same\nLive and die, we're the same\nYou rejoice, I complain\nBut you and I, we're the same\nLive and die, we're the same\nYou and I we're the same\nHear my voice, know my name\nYou and I, you and I"},{"id":832838,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-living-of-love-lyrics","title":"Living Of Love","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"For just one chance to find\nLove was someone that you loved to find\nFor just the sense to try\nTo walk ahead and leave the pain behind\nIf the days aren't easy and the nights are rough\nWhen they ask you what you're thinking of\nSay love, say for me love\nSay love, say for me love\n\nYour heart says not again\nWhat kind of mess have you got me in\nBut when the feelings there\nIt can lift you up and take you anywhere\nBut the gravel beneath you and the limbs above\nIf anybody asks you where your coming from\nSay love, say for me love\nSay love, say for me love\n\nSay yes we live uncertainty\nAnd disappointments have to be\nAnd everyday we might be facing more\nAnd yes we live in desperate times\nBut fading words and shaking rhymes\nThere's only one thing here worth hoping for\nWith Lucifer beneath you and God above\nIf either one of them asks you what your living of\nSay love, say for me love\nSay love, say for me love\nSay love, say for me love\nSay love, say for me love\nSay love, say for me love\nSay love, say for me love"},{"id":4918101,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-locked-up-lyrics","title":"Locked Up","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI can't take the criticism\nI'm heating up with cynicism\nAll the colors in the prism entering my eyes\nStill can't change my mind\n\n[Verse 2]\nI'm a stubborn goat getting older\nA cube of ice getting colder\nA frozen heart and frozen shoulders, that is what I've got\nA sweetheart I am not\n\n[Verse 3]\nNow I'll soften when it pays the bills\nI'll love you in exchange for thrills\nOur service calls, withdrawal will kill\nI can smell fresh blood from miles away\n\n[Chorus]\nI can't be locked up this way, I can't be locked up this way\nI can't be locked up like this, oh, no, I can't be locked up this way\n\n[Verse 3]\nNow I have been their slave but I'm tired of workin'\nA jackhammer tired of jerking\nI'm a booty-shaker tired of twerking, you can laugh all you want\nSoon enough, though, I'll be gone\n\n[Verse 4]\nI'm a dying fly on the wall\nI'm a teenage girl who just won't call\nI'm a deflated basketball, no needle to be found\nAnd I just want to be around\n\n[Pre-Chorus]\nSo I can roam, so I can bounce\nSo I can roam out of this town\n\n[Chorus]\nI can't be locked up like this, I can't be locked up like this\nI can't be locked up this way, oh, no, I can't be locked up like this\n\n[Verse 5]\nNow I'm the worst ship that was ever built\nStarted sinking soon as the champagne spilled\nAll the dirty secrets in my quilt, they won't come out in the wash\nSomebody help, my gosh\n\n[Verse 6]\nI'm a beating heart off the beaten path\nThe god of shame, fear my wrath\nCan my filthy soul take a bath in the light of you?\nIn the light of truth? In the light of you\n\n[Chorus]\nNo, I can't be locked up like this, I can't be locked up like this\nI can't be locked up this way, oh, no, I can't be locked up like this\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nI can't be locked up like this, I can't be locked up like this\nI can't be locked up like this (Oh, no), I can't be locked up like this"},{"id":4918097,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-long-story-short-lyrics","title":"Long Story Short","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"Here I am standing, ten feet between us\nBeside me, the door that I just came through\nWhere I walked past an overweight cop in an alley\nWith a beer gut bursting from a bullet proof jacket\nWho thinks to himself, \"I've got to get back\nTo the man that I was when I was a dreamer\"\nWith a partner in crime named Brandy McGill\nA girl with a love of life bigger than normal\nWho still wonders when her life will begin\nHer best friend Maria who seems to have everything\nTells her she probably just needs a vacation\nAway from the stress of her husband’s vocation\nWhile Maria is talking, Brandy is drifting\nStaring at John who just got the job\nBusing tables to pay for Community College\nAn Associates degree in x-ray technology\nJohn is too old to still be in college\nHe doesn't like class and sometimes doesn't go\nLong story short, his family was broken\nHe was freed from a past life as a kid on Skid Row\nHe notices Brandy, but stares at Maria\nHer beauty well-practiced in casting a spell\nImagining her naked, he spills dirty dishes\nOn the lap of an elderly woman named Belle\nA lady who won't live to see her next birthday\nBut shares a warm smile regardless of that\nThe mess that unfolds completely surrounds her\nNot one bit of urgency enters her soul\nShe reaches for Roy, her husband forever\nIn love and connection, her small hand, he holds\nAnd nothing comes of it but a managers' anger\nNot for the mess, but her father's remark\nAbout a bad grade that she had as a child\nSo she takes her revenge out by firing John\nWho now wonders when his life will begin\nAin't it confusing to search for the will\nAnd learn when you find it that you've lost your way?\nLong story short, he saw a commercial\nThat said that the 20s are the prime of your life\nBut that doesn't seem to be true at this moment\nAs he cleans out his locker and calls his best friend\nWho's too busy to talk cause he's prepping with lawyers\nTo keep money from his ex-wife, the mother\nOf their only son who's naturally drawn\nTo guns and sharp objects who now has no father\nExcept for on weekends, two times a month\nNo need to worry, I'm told we're protected\nBy the men passing laws in the House and the Senate\nFrom people who mix up the truth and reality\nWith movies and games and ridiculous scenarios\nLong story short, best I can tell\nChildren can't be left to raise themselves"},{"id":833196,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-love-like-the-movies-lyrics","title":"Love Like the Movies","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"So you want to be in love like the movies\nBut in the movies they're not in love at all\nAnd with a twinkle in their eyes\nThey're just saying their lines\nSo we can't be in love like the movies\n\nNow in the movies they make it look so perfect\nAnd in the background they're always playing the right song\nAnd in the ending there's always a resolution\nBut real life is more than just two hours long\n\nSo you want to be in love like the movies\nBut in the movies they're not in love at all\nAnd with a twinkle in their eyes\nThey're just saying their lines\nSo we can't be in love like the movies\n\nWell you can freeze frame any moment from a movie\nOr run the whole damn thing backwards from reel to reel\nBut I don't see one single solitary light technician\nOr one single camera in this moonlit field\n\nI don't want to be in love like the movies\nCause in the movies they're not in love at all\nWith a twinkle in their eyes\nThey're just saying their lines\nSo we can't be in love like the movies\n\nAnd with a twinkle in their eyes\nThey're just saying their lines\nAnd so we can't be in love like the movies\nNooooooo\nWe can't be in love like movies"},{"id":2671431,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-mama-i-dont-believe-lyrics","title":"Mama, I Don’t Believe","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI lay here pretending to sleep\nSomeone's always asking for something of me\nI try to hide, but I'm stripped of my strength\n\n[Chorus]\nBound by the truth\nBored by the speed\nAnd the promise of the fortune it brings\nOh mama, I just don't believe\n\n[Verse 2]\nLike it happened in a Broadway scene\nAre we still acting? Is this the real you and me?\nThe words don't flow, but my heart, it still bleeds\n\n[Chorus]\nBound by the love\nThe warmth that it brings\nAnd the promise to fix everything\nOh mama, I just don't believe\n\n[Bridge]\nAngel wings tied to memories\nThey'll never fly for you and I\nAngel wings tied to melodies\nThey'll never sing for you and me\n\n[Verse 3]\nA young man whose soul was burning\nThe hands of the people guiding him home\nHe was moving along, mama he was cooking\nBut the calendar won, his earnings are gone\nThe fortune that this young man saw\nOh mama, I don't believe in it at all\n\n[Bridge]\nAngel wings tied to memories\nThey'll never fly for you and I\nAngel wings tied to melodies\nThey'll never sing for you and me\nFor you and me\nThey'll never sing\n\n[Outro]\nThey'll never sing\nThey'll never sing\nThey'll never sing\nThey'll never sing\nOh mama, I just don't believe\nOh mama, I just don't believe\nOh mama, I just don't believe"},{"id":832979,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-matrimony-lyrics","title":"Matrimony","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Things didn't work out like they should\nFarther from how you thought they would\nDo you still want my hand?\nDo you think I'm still your man?\nI'll change everything I can\nMatrimony...\n\nHoly plans and holy gifts\nHoly shit what did we get\nYou said you've got plans of your own\nYou're gonna work and I'll stay home\nDo you still want my hand?\nDo you still think I'm your man?\nI'll change everything I can\nMatrimony...\n\nMy dog is loud and my dog is wild\nWe're too young to have a child\nCan you keep the dog next week?\nI'll be gone the next three\nDo you still want my hand?\nDo you still think I'm your man?\nI'll change everything I can\nMatrimony...\n\nI ain't through I ain't walking out\nLeaving ain't what I'm about\nYou may scream and I may shout\nBut baby I love you"},{"id":2672966,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-may-it-last-lyrics","title":"May It Last","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nThere is a sea, and I am a captain\nOf something unknown, waves high as mountains\nThere is a key, and there is a light\nHere's to times that I catch it\nMay it last through the night\n\n[Verse 1]\nI'm as low as they come\nI'm what shouldn't be done\nFilthy and lost\nStill up for trying\nYou're the one reason why\nI look up and smile\nWishing for love\nAnd I'm ready to forge ahead\n\n[Chorus]\nThere is a sea, and I am a captain\nOf something unknown, waves high as mountains\nThere is a key, and there is a lie\nHere's to times that I catch it\nMay it last through the night\n\n[Verse 2]\nDark thoughts are hidden\nMasked in the shadows\nTimes they get strange\nCause a friend\nWhere all we'll fit in\nBlind in our armor\nTraveling fast\nJudgement is past\nNow it's time to go home\n\n[Chorus]\nThere is a sea, and I am a captain\nOf something unknown, waves high as mountains\nThere is a key, and there is a lie\nHere's to times that I catch it\nMay it last through the night\n\n[Bridge]\nWhen the engine won't turn\nWhen the fire won't burn\nLike it did when we felt it\nDeep in our hearts\nUntie the rudder\nGuide them away\nTake me I'll serve you\nTake me I'll serve\n\n[Chorus]\nThere is a sea, and I am a captain\nOf something unknown, waves high as mountains\nThere is a key, and there is a lie\nHere's to times that I catch it\nMay it last through the night"},{"id":833424,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-me-and-god-lyrics","title":"Me and God","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Well I know a preacher he's a real good man\nHe speaks from The Good Book in his hand\nAnd helps all people when he can\nBut me and God don't need a middle man\n\nWell I found God in a soft woman's hair\nA long days work and a good sittin' chair\nThe ups and downs of the treble clef lines\nAnd five miles ago on an interstate sign\nMy God, my God and I don't need a middle man\nMy God, my God and I don't need a middle man\n\nNow I don't doubt that The Good Book is true\nWhat's right for me may not be right for you\nTo church on Sunday I'll stand beside\nAll the hurtin' people with the fear in their eyes\nAnd I thank the Lord for the country land\nJust like Paul I thank him for my hands\nAnd I don't know if my soul is saved\nSometimes I use curse words when I pray\nMy God, my God and I don't need a middle man\nMy God, my God and I don't need a middle man\nMy God, my God and I don't need a middle man\nMy God, my God and I don't need a middle man"},{"id":833888,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-more-of-you-lyrics","title":"More Of You","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"Saying hello, holding your hand\nBabe can I ask, babe can I have\nMore of, More of, More of, More of\nMore of, More of, More of, More of you, you\n\nWondering what this life's all about\nBut I can't see myself living without\nMore of, More of, More of, More of\nMore of, More of, More of, More of you, you\n\nI get your number\nWhat will you say?\nI get your number\nWith no kind of game\nI get your number\nI don't want to wait\nI get your number\nI call you today\n\nOut on the road hungry and tired\nNo way to stop, nowhere to hide\nA booth in the corner, a place for the night\nI stood up to leave unsatisfied\nI cannot forget her, I promise I've tried\nI looked through the glass between me and the night\nI asked what it is, my reflection replies\n\nMore of, More of, More of, More of\nMore of, More of, More of, More of you, you\n\nI get your number\nWhat will you say?\nI get your number\nWith no kind of game\nI get your number\nI don't want to wait\nI get your number\nI call you today"},{"id":833823,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-morning-song-lyrics","title":"Morning Song","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"Hurt so bad\nYou don't come around here anymore\nWorse than that\nNothing's really helping I've been thinking\n'bout drinking again\n\nIt's alright\nIf you finally stop caring\nJust don't go and tell someone that does\nCause even though I know there's hope in\nEvery morning song\nI have to find that melody alone\n\nHer name became\nThe flame unto the fire\nA magpie on the wire warned of those\nDead until the high\nShamelessly alive until the low\n\nIt's alright\nIf you finally stop caring\nJust don't go and tell someone that does\nCause even though I know there's hope in\nEvery morning song\nI have to find that melody alone\n\nBut we can go ahead\nIf no one notices\nWhat's the point of it?\nI have to ask\n\nHow you learn to see\nThe hope eternally\nWhen you're soon to leave\nOh, leave at last\n\nHurt so bad\nMore than I expected that it would\nWorse than that\nIt seems to be lasting just a little\nLonger than it should\n\nIt's alright\nIf you finally stop caring\nJust don't go and tell someone that does\nCause even though I know there's hope in\nEvery morning song\nI have to find that melody alone\nI have to find that melody alone\nI have to find that melody alone\nI have to find that melody alone"},{"id":66618,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-murder-in-the-city-lyrics","title":"Murder in the City","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"If I get murdered in the city\nDon't go revengin' in my name\nOne person dead from such is plenty\nNo need to go get locked away\nWhen I leave your arms\nThe things that I think of\nNo need to get over-alarmed\nI'm comin' home\n\nI wonder which brother is better\nWhich one our parents love the most\nI sure did get in lots of trouble\nThey seem to let the other go\nA tear fell from my father's eyes\nI wondered what my Dad would say\nHe said, \"I love you and I'm proud of you both\nIn so many different ways.\"\n\nIf I get murdered in the city\nGo read the letter in my desk\nDon't bother with all my belongings\nPay attention to the list\nMake sure my sister knows I loved her\nMake sure my mother knows the same\nAlways remember there was nothing worth sharing\nLike the love that let us share our name\nAlways remember there was nothing worth sharing\nLike the love that let us share our name"},{"id":833666,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-my-lady-and-the-mountain-lyrics","title":"My Lady and the Mountain","albumTitle":"The Avett Brothers","albumId":187257,"lyrics":"I brought you to the river\nTo watch the fish swim by\nAnd lay around that grassy bank\nAnd breathe in that blue sky\n\nI brought you to these waters\nTo see what you could see\nThe difference in the two worlds\nCan't help but frighten me\n\nBut darlin' it's been a long time\nSince I've seen you smile that way at me\nDarlin' just feel the warmth here\nHappy's not the word\nYou make me free\n\nI brought you to the mountains\nTo watch the clouds float by\nThe wind here gives me shivers\nThe freedom makes me cry\n\nAnd being with you darlin'\nForget what we have not\nJust being at the top here\nTo convince anyone there's a god\n\nBut darlin' it's been a long time\nSince I've seen you smile that way at me\nDarlin' just feel the warmth here\nHappy's not the word\nYou make me free\n\n(Make me free now)\n\nI gave you my decision\nRegardless wrong or right\nThe hills, they make me feel good\nThey make me feel alive\n\nLike singing with my family\nOn Sunday afternoon\nLike laughing in the morning\nWrapped up tight with you\n\nBut darlin' it's been a long time\nSince I've seen you smile that way at me\nDarlin' just feel the warmth here\nHappy's not the word\nYou make me free"},{"id":833253,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-my-last-song-to-jenny-lyrics","title":"My Last Song to Jenny","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Oh tell me please\nThat I don't have to read\nBetween the lines\nHey this is me\nAnd you don't have to keep\nSomething heavy on your mind\nDid you sleep?\nNot a wink\nWell neither did I\n\nI've never been\nToo good at readin' in\nBetween the lines\nSo babe spell it out\nBut you don't have to shout\nWhen you're talking to me\nDo you care?\nDo you care?\nAre you there?\nWell neither am I\n\nDon't lock your door\nEveryone is poor\nBetween the lines\nAnd I could never steal\nThe sadness you feel\nWhen your changing you mind\nOh my dear\nCan you hear?\nWell neither can I\n\nI want to live\nAnd I want you to live\nHappy and free\nBut I don't know how\nTo seperate the now\nFrom what used to be\nWill you sleep?\nNot a wink\nWell neither will I"},{"id":833647,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-my-losing-bet-lyrics","title":"My Losing Bet","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"I waited for you\nA hard thing to do\nKnowin' we're through\nAnd though I don't have to choose\nTo welcome you back or push you away\nBut wait we're not there yet\nAnd though I'm losing the bet\nThere's still the sunset\n\nI felt so surprised\nWhen she arrived\nWearing a smile\nSmiles soon turn to tears\nOut on her back pier\nAfter all the love how did I end here\n\nOh Lord, Oh Lord..."},{"id":833257,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-never-been-alive-lyrics","title":"Never Been Alive","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"Woah, money won't do the trick\nBut it will help\nWoah, to open the doors we need it to\nTo help someone else\n\nStill we won't need it\nTo turn things around\nI've never been alive, Woah\nI've never been alive, Woah\nI've never been alive like I am now\n\nWoah, you need only tell me\nWhen you're under the gun\nWoah, if you need someone to lend a hand\nConsider it done\n\nStill you won't need me\nTo turn things around\nI've never been alive, Woah\nI've never been alive, Woah\nI've never been alive like I am now\nLike I am now\nLike I am now\nLike I am now"},{"id":4918100,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-new-womans-world-lyrics","title":"New Woman’s World","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"It used to be a man's world, but we didn't treat it right\nIt used to be a man's world, but all we did was fight\nI'm glad it's finally in the hands of the women and the girls\nI can't wait to see what they do with what's left of the world\n\nLadies, I'm sorry, but we couldn’t seem to learn\nHow to live in peace, so Rome had to burn\nAnd we cared about clean air, but there was money to be made\nAnd breathing's nice, but it don't compare with getting paid\n\nIt used to be a man's world, but we didn't treat it right\nIt used to be a man's world, but all we did was fight\nI'm glad it's finally in the hands of the women and the girls\nI can't wait to see what they do with what's left of the world\n\nPlease, I beg your pardon, but we got a bit confused\nSome of our brothers thought our sisters were born for getting used\nThen we made the assumption that's how it should be done\nThen tried to excuse ourselves in the name of fun\nDon't get me wrong, hope ain't fully gone\nScores of decent men built the road I'm standing on\nBut a lot of it has crumbled through prideful mistakes\nAnd ashes cover much of what the flooding didn't take\n\nI know that we are giving you a lot to straighten out\nThe silver lining broke away from the thunder cloud\nAnd it took us a few thousand years to make a mess so fine\nI bet y'all sort it out in less than half the time\n\nIt used to be a man's world, excess in the extreme\nOh, it used to be a man's world, but we ran out of steam\nWe couldn't seem to reach the grace that's born in every girl\nStill, I hope that I can lend a hand in this new woman's world\nLet me know if I can help out in this new woman's world"},{"id":2671612,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-no-hard-feelings-lyrics","title":"No Hard Feelings","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nWhen my body won't hold me anymore\nAnd it finally lets me free\nWill I be ready?\nWhen my feet won't walk another mile?\nAnd my lips give their last kiss goodbye?\nWill my hands be steady when I lay down my fears, my hopes, and my doubts?\nThe rings on my fingers, and the keys to my house\nWith no hard feelings?\n\n[Verse 2]\nWhen the sun hangs low in the west\nAnd the light in my chest won't be kept held at bay any longer\nWhen the jealousy fades away\nAnd it's ash and dust for casual lust\nAnd it's just hallelujah\nAnd love in thoughts and love in the words\nLove in the songs they sing in the church\nAnd no hard feelings\n\n[Chorus]\nLord knows they haven't done much good for anyone\nKept me afraid and cold\nWith so much to have and hold\nMmm, hmm\n\n[Verse 3]\nWhen my body won't hold me anymore\nAnd it finally lets me free\nWhere will I go?\nWill the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?\nOr tropical rain?\nOr snow from the heavens?\nWill I join with the ocean blue?\nOr run into a savior true?\nAnd shake hands laughing\nAnd walk through the night, straight to the light\nHolding the love I've known in my life\nAnd no hard feelings\n\n[Chorus]\nLord knows they haven't done much good for anyone\nKept me afraid and cold\nWith so much to have and hold\n\n[Outro]\nUnder the curving sky\nI'm finally learning why\nIt matters for me and you\nTo say it and mean it too\nFor life and its lovely nest\nAnd all of its ugliness\nGood as it's been to me\nI have no enemies\nI have no enemies\nI'll have no enemies\nI have no enemies"},{"id":833925,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-november-blue-lyrics","title":"November Blue","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"If I weren't leavin', would I catch you dreamin'\nAnd if I weren't gonna be gone now, could I take you home\nAnd if I told you I loved you, would it change what you see\nAnd if I was staying, would you stay with me\nAnd if I had money, would it all look good\nAnd if I had a job now, like a good man should\nAnd if I came to you tomorrow, and said let's run away\nWould you roll like the wind does, baby would you stay\n\nMy heart is dancin', to a November tune\nAnd I hope that you hear it, singing songs about you\nAnd I sing songs of sorrow, because you're not around\nSee, babe I'm gone tomorrow, Baby follow me down\n\nI don't know why I have to, but this man must move on\nI love my time here, didn't know 'til I was gone\nNovember shadows, shade November change\nNovember spells sweet memory, the season blue remains\nNovember spells sweet memory, the season blue remains\n\nYour yellow hair is like the sunlight, however sweet it shines\nBit by the cold of December, I'm warm beside your smile\n\nOh lady, tell me I'm not leaving, you're everything I dreamed\nI'm killing myself thinking, I've fallen like the leaves\nI'm killing myself thinking, I've fallen like the leaves"},{"id":833089,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-offering-lyrics","title":"Offering","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Babe I'm lost\nCause I don't know what to say\nHmmm I love you\nWant to make you my wife someday\n\nDon't wanna steal you\nOf a young woman's light\nTo me it's perfect\nJust wanna do you right\n\nAnd I've known others\nAnd I've loved others too\nBut I loved them cause they were stepping stones\nOn a staircase to you\n\nSometimes I act foolish\nI don't know what to do\nPlease babe try not to judge me\nFor my offering is true\n\nAnd I dream of children\nWe can call our own\nWatch 'em run around in the front yard\nFrom the front porch of our home\n\nTo me it's perfect\nJust wanna do you right"},{"id":833714,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-old-wyom-lyrics","title":"Old Wyom","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"Well I dreamed of how our life could be, oh yeah\nLovin' and a kissin' 'neath an old oak tree, uh huh\nWell I'd be singing you a song that was twenty lines long\nAnd be catchin' sweet kisses you can blow way out to Wyom\n\nI'd work my day to come home to you, oh yeah\nYou could do whatever you wanted to, uh huh\nWith you big brown eyes and your curly brown hair\nI'm doin' the best I can do just to try to not stare\nMy God your loveliness\n\nGot a feeling you maybe won't like the news, oh no\nYa ain't going like it when you have to choose, oh no\nIf you and me were born to never be apart\nI can feel it in my mind, I can feel it in my soul, in my heart\n\nOh baby please come around\nOh baby please come around\nOh baby please come around\n\nWas that your man, he's you fiancee, oh yeah\nAnother one ties the knot each and everyday, uh huh\nI've got to get up the nerve to pick up the phone\nIt's you sweet mama, I'm a-goin' carry you back home\nWay out to Old Wyom\n\nI probably shoulda thought about lettin' you know, uh huh\nIf I love you like I do I should've told you so, uh huh\nWell I think about you each and every day\nIt's just my knees gettin' weak when I try to say\n\nOh baby please be mine\nOh baby please be mine\nOh baby please be mine\n\nGot a feelin' I'm barkin' up an empty tree\nHow could something so beautiful think about me?\nI put my tail between my legs and turn my back\nTry on my trusty ramblin' sack\n\nI'm off to Old Wyom\nI'm off to Old Wyom\nI'm off to Old Wyom"},{"id":834025,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-one-line-wonder-lyrics","title":"One Line Wonder","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"I love you but I can't remember why\nStars fallin' from high forgotten sky\nI was a one-line wonder in my own love song\n\nI keep a little journal by my bed\nDreams help me find the words I haven't said\nLike when a little girlie said goodbye to me\n\nFrom behind a screen door\nI won't see her again I'm sure\nDidn't I say I need you\nI tried to move on but I can't\nI tried to think of bad times\nGood memories are all I have\n\nI love you but I can't remember why\nI'd love to find a reason to deny\nI was a one-hit wonder in my own hometown\n\nAnd I guess I might have made a few mistakes\nBut maybe that's exactly what it takes\nTo get a little happy in this big sad world\n\nHow many have you made\nAnd which of those have you laid on down to die\nWell didn't I say I need you\nI tried to move on but I can't\nI tried to think of bad times\nGood memories are all I have"},{"id":324367,"url":"https://genius.com/Johnny-cash-one-too-many-mornings-lyrics","title":"One Too Many Mornings","albumTitle":"Johnny & June ","albumId":72225,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nDown the street the dogs are barking\nAnd the day is getting dark\nAs the night comes in falling\nThe dogs will lose their bark\nAnd the silent night will shatter\nFrom the sounds inside my mind\n\n[Chorus]\nFor I'm one too many mornings\nAnd a thousand miles behind\n\n[Verse 2]\nFrom the crossroads of my doorstep\nMy eyes they start to fade\nAs I turn my head back to the room\nWhere my love and I have laid\nAnd I gaze back to the street\nThe sidewalk and the sign\n\n[Chorus]\n\n[Verse 3]\nIt's a restless hungry feeling\nThat don't mean no one no good\nWhen everything I'm saying\nYou can say it just as good\nYou're right from your side\nI'm right from mine\n\n[Chorus]"},{"id":235674,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-open-ended-life-lyrics","title":"Open Ended Life","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nPack a change of clothes and a pillow for the road\nFor when you drift off to sleep\nPut the sketches and the notes in the box labeled 'burn with furniture'\n\nWe will watch the fire burn the whole entire house we built\nDown to ashes\nFrom the mirror we'll admire how the flame quickly retires\nWe won't waste a long goodbye on the smoke or foolish lies\nThat finally passed us\n\n[Chorus]\nI was taught to keep an open-ended life\nAnd never trap myself in nothing\n\n[Verse 2]\nLet's find something new to talk about\nI'm tired of talkin' about myself\nI spent my whole life talkin' to convince\nEveryone that I was something else\n\nAnd the part that kinda hurts is I think it finally worked\nAnd now I'm leaving\nI get the feeling things have changed\nBut the mystery to me is where and when along the way\nDid anyone decide that they believed me\n\n[Chorus]\nI was taught to keep an open-ended life\nAnd never trap myself in nothing\nI was told to keep an open-ended life\nTo never trap yourself in nothing\n\n[Verse 3]\nWhen we settle down in another nowhere town\nLet's tell our neighbors\nWe won't be here long and we'll be quiet\nBut don't go askin' any favors\n\nI can't stand the unexpected uninvited visits\nFrom too many strangers\nMy trust has dwindled down\nAnd I can leave just as abruptly as I came here\n\n[Chorus]\nI was taught to keep an open-ended life\nAnd never trap myself in nothing\nI was taught to keep an open-ended life\nTo never trap yourself in nothing\nI was taught to keep an open-ended life\nAnd never trap myself in nothing"},{"id":834352,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-paranoia-in-b-flat-major-lyrics","title":"Paranoia In B Flat Major","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI keep tellin' myself that it'll be fine\nYou can't make everybody happy all of the time\nBut I found myself in a place that I've never been\nA place that I thought that I would never be\nThere's people looking back at me\n\n[Verse 2]\nI keep having this dream, I'm at a party\nThere's people throwing drinks\nAnd screaming telling me that I don't belong\nLately life's been the same\nI find this comfortable place\nWith all my friends\nAnd then my friends start telling me\nThat I've always been wrong\nAnd I'm so tired of being wrong\n\n[Verse 3]\nThere was a time I could move, there was a time I could breathe\nThe crowded spaces filled with angry faces\nIt didn't once cross my mind\nWith paranoia on my heels\nWill you love me still\nWhen we awake and you find that the sanity has gone from my eyes?\n\n[Verse 4]\nI got secrets from you, you got secrets from me\nBecause you're so worried about what I'm gonna think\nBaby, I'm worried too\nBut if love is a game, girl, then you're gonna win\nI'll spend the rest of my life bringing victory in\nIf you want me to"},{"id":1851176,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-part-from-me-lyrics","title":"Part From Me","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"I was scared but I couldn't admit it\nHatred planted out of fear\nFight or flight no choice but to hit it\nThe road, it calls on me my dear\n\nI was lost as lost can be\nBeing praised for being found\nBut all that praise got lost on me\nAs a mood swing was headed down\n\nPart from me\nI would not dare take someone in love with me\nWhere I'm going\nApart you'll see\nHow true it is and how back then\nIt possibly was impossible for you or me to know it\n\nYour touch was nothing more\nThan a child's goodbye and hello\nBut it always left me feeling\nWorse when it was time to go\n\nPart from me\nI would not dare take someone in love with me\nWhere I'm going\nApart you'll see\nHow true it is and how back then\nIt possibly was impossible for you or me to know it\n\nAnd most of us out there got fooled\nCause the gold it glittered in the night\nAnd we chased it fast like drunk buffoons\nThe banker lived the artist died\n\nAnd all our clothes were washed in gray\nAll our buildings and our cars\nAs the fluorescent light of day\nBleached the sky into the stars\n\nPart from me\nI would not dare take someone in love with me\nWhere I'm going\nApart you'll see\nHow true it is and how back then\nIt possibly was impossible for you or me to know it"},{"id":102004,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-paul-newman-vs-the-demons-lyrics","title":"Paul Newman vs. The Demons","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nYou may have to drag me away from my demons\nKicking and screaming\nIt's been so long now, I've been with them\nDon't know where they stop and I begin\nWe draw a line in the sand\nWill you cross it? Oh, will you die for this?\nGot nothing to tell you that you don't\nThrough your sadness below, already know\n\n[Chorus]\nYeah, yeah, yeah\nLive through the past again\nHow many times must I live through the past again?\nNo more\n\n[Verse 2]\nTruth beyond truth and by our design\nIt is very fine like Newman's wine\nOh, to be like him and walk a path\nTo lend a hand, do something worth a damn\n\n[Chorus]\n\n[Bridge]\nYou may have to drag me away from my demons\nKicking and screaming\nYeah, yeah, yeah\nLive through the past again\nHow many times must I live through the past again?\nNo more, wait"},{"id":833124,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-please-pardon-yourself-lyrics","title":"Please Pardon Yourself","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"As I turn my head to your side of the bed\nWhy are you wake, What's on your mind?\nTo this awful news try not to hold on\nThe day will come, the sun will rise, and we'll be fine\n\nAs long as I feel, as strong as I feel\nI will carry you as long as I can\nAs hard on yourself, please pardon yourself\nDo the best you can and that won't go unseen\n\nHow do I know when it's time to stop?\nRunnin' from the things I do, being things I'm not\nOh I have tried, but I just changed my mind\nEvery night that falls, every morning light\n\nHow do I know that you will never stop?\nKnowin' me, and trustin' me, and lovin' me a lot\nOh I have tried, but I just changed my mind\nEvery night that falls, every morning light\n\nWell there's only so many ways\nYou can give your loving to me\nI'd give my soul for just for one of them now\nI'd give up the drinking, just tell me how\n\nAnd there's only so many years\nI'm going to give my love to you\nAnd I spent the last one hidden away\nScreaming my lungs out with nothing to say\n\nAs I turn my head to your side of the bed\nWhy are you wake, What's on your mind?\nTo this awful news try not to hold on\nThe day will come, the sun will rise, and we'll be fine"},{"id":833295,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretend-love-lyrics","title":"Pretend Love","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Don't be fooled by my words\nDon't be fooled by my song\nIf you choose to belive them\nYou'll plainly be wrong\n\nI have love for my family\nI have love for my friends\nThat's as far as it goes\nAnd I must let you know\nMy love for you was pretend\n\nPretend love, pretend love\nDon't be mistaken, I've only been fakin'\nPretend love\n\nDon't you know I've a gift\nAnd I've wraped it in truth\nYour birthday's tomorrow\nBut the gift is not for you\n\nBut if I came with a present\nI would bring you a clue\nHopes you'd finally see\nThat your feelings for me\nWill never be returned\n\nPretend love, pretend love\nDon't be mistaken, I've only been fakin'\nPretend love\n\nPretend love, pretend love\nDon't be mistaken, I've only been faking\nPretend love"},{"id":833391,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-at-the-airport-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl at the Airport","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Wish me luck I know you think I'll need it\nFor all the hardest roads we have to walk alone\nAnd you don't have to tell me that you love me\nFor all the words I've never understood\nI know, I know\n\nThe wind that blows from here to California\nNever stops to turn and wonder why it goes\nAnd you don't have to tell me when you're leaving\nFor all the plans I've never understood\nI know, I know\n\nLeave now while you can\nI'm not your man\nI know, I know\n\nTo have your things and wait there for a plane ride\nNo one there to sit and hold your hand in flight\nBut everyone I know out here is lonely\nEven those that have someone to lie beside at night\n\nLeave me with the dawn\nIt's almost gone\nI know, I know\nLeave now while you can\nI'm not your man\nI know, I know"},{"id":832900,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-annapolis-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl from Annapolis","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Oh don't you look at me that way\nI would be honest but I don't know how to say\nI've been lazy with my love\nCan't you give me a chance to make it up to you\n\nI'm always chasing some far off dream\nMy lady I know it's not easy for you to see\nBut I've lied to myself\nAnd your lovelyness no it doesn't help\nNo your beautiful smile don't help\n\nMy dreams are lies\nThat I have tried to ignore\nMy dreams fly me\nTo a place near Baltimore\n\nAnd I love this moment we're in\nThough we might never see this moment again\nMay you find all that you need\nAn easy way to forget about me\nMay you forget about me\n\nMy dreams are lies\nThat I have tried to ignore\nMy dreams fly me\nTo a place near Baltimore\n\nAnd if I don't make it to the spring\nMay you catch the joy that a melody brings\nFrom my dear brothers ragged six string\nSinging the songs we're embarrassed to sing\nMay you never be embarrassed to sing\n\nMy dreams are lies\nThat I have tried to ignore\nMy dreams fly me\nTo a place near Baltimore"},{"id":832770,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-cedar-lane-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl From Cedar Lane","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"I had a moment, when I thought I might be wrong\nBut Ashley how could it be\nI waited on the rooftop, all night long\nBut you weren't coming for me\nAnd now I'm sitting here like a mixed up little kid\nYou said you wanted me but you never did\nThere was a moment when I thought our love was strong\nBut now that moment is gone\n\nI could stand right underneath the window of your room\nThrowing rocks I've done it before\nAnd I would love to find a reason to dazzle you with lies\nBut I don't have the energy no more\nAnd you never promise anything you didn't give\nI assumed that you'd say yes but you never did\nThere was a moment my love for you was strong\nBut now that moment is gone\nNow that moment is gone\n\nI saw you behind the camera\nWhispering to your friends and watching me\nI fell in love with you there\nWhich proves the fool that I can often be\n\nI had a moment when I thought I might be right\nBut Ashley how could it be\nI drank your share bourbon thinking you might come around\nThere ain't no one on the rooftop but me\nAnd now I'm sitting here like a mixed up little kid\nYou said you wanted me but you never did\nThere was a moment my love for you was strong\nBut Ashley that moment is gone\nAshley that moment is gone\nNow that moment is gone"},{"id":833735,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-chile-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl from Chile","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"I'm no more than a friend girl\nI can see that you need more\nMy boots are on my feet now\nMy bag is by the door\n\nAnd the love and the attention\nThat you need and ask me for\nAre weakened by my actions\nAnd lies that I have told\nI'm scared to think that I've abandoned you\nI'd like to say that I'm a faithful man but it may not be true\n\nAnd my heart is like a mason's\nHands of weathered skin\nEach scar makes it harder\nFor me to hurt again\nI'm scared to think that I've abandoned you\nI'd like to say that I'm a faithful man but it may not be true\n\nGabriella, the things that I tell ya\nAre all meant to help ya\nAre they working out\nHave I gone, have I gone and failed ya\nGabriella, have I let you down\n\nGabriella, the things that I tell ya\nAre all meant to help ya\nAre they working out\nHave I gone, have I gone and failed ya\nGabriella, have I let you down\n\n[Spoken part]\nNew message, friday 01:07 PM\nHey what's up, this is Gabriella\nHow are you\nHey I've read the song you write\nYou serious, you didn't abandon me, or anything like that\nJust people do whatever they need to do\nTo get going, you know\nBut I'm fine, I've been doing realy well lately\nSo, just that, I hope that you're fine too and everything's great\nOk, thank you, ciao\n\nOne, two , three, four"},{"id":827301,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-feltre-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl From Feltre","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Susanna, Italiana, what do you want to do?\nI thought I had figured it out but that was before you\n\nWalking a mile into town\nHoping to see you around\nHoping your man is nowhere to be found\nAnd hoping we'll go to your room\nAnd hoping we'll go to your room\n\nQuietly act like you love me until I leave Feltre\nAnd when you learn of my return\nWatch what the townspeople say\n\nRiding in your cargo van\nDriving your mom's cargo van\nIf you only knew how charming it was\nThe lure of your folks' cargo van\nThe lure of your folks' cargo van\n\nGo tell Max\nBe clear with the facts\nLeave me a letter to there\nI still have the one from before\nFrom when I turned twenty-four"},{"id":833219,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-matthews-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl from Matthews","albumTitle":"Country Was","albumId":254078,"lyrics":"Hold on a minute it ain't time to leave\nTell me how you're feeling one more time\nFour long years and I just can't believe\nThat I'm still yours and you're still mine\n\nWhile I was gone, yes, I fell in love\nAsked around and heard that you did too\nTwo drunken years and push came to shove\nI met love, love left me blue\n\nYou're rising like a sun\nThat pulled the curtain on the night\nComing through the window\nTo brighten up my life\n\nAnd I'm all right, yeah, I think I'm fine\nMy savior lives in telephones\nAnd I just dream of you and step outside\nDial up and hope that you're home\n\nYou're rising like a sun\nThat waits up all night\nComing through the window\nTo brighten up my life\n\nHold on a minute, yeah, I do love you\nSometimes I guess that ain't enough\nWhen you come round you put me through\nAnd I thank you, oh, so much\n\nAnother year, maybe, three or four\nMaybe five or six or even more\nYou'll find another man to take my place\nAnd I'll see you on the good Lord's shores\n\nYou're rising like a sun\nThat pulled the curtain on the night\nComing through the window\nTo brighten up my life"},{"id":90819,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-michigan-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl from Michigan","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"Can you not see what you've done?\nYou gave your heart away like that\nI didn't want to fall in love\nWith anyone, but you did\nI can still hear the song\nThe melody behind the kiss you gave me\nYou were wrong, I was right, so I walked away\nAnd left you there alone\nI got so tired of talking on the telephone\nHow many times would we say the words \"goodbye?\"\n\nI make mistakes, and one was telling you that I'd be there\nWhen telling time had come\nI should have said I didn't care\nOh, the time I would have saved\nIf I had been less willing to accommodate\nYou'd been a little less likely to cry\n\nYou go back to the high life\nAnd I'll go back to the low\nI should have known, but now I know\n\nThere will be no word from you\nDescribing how it felt to go through\nWhat I put you through\nIt all makes perfect sense\nThe way you cut the rope\nThat kept you dangling\nFrom such pitiful amounts of hope\nI would have cut it too"},{"id":833509,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-raleigh-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl from Raleigh","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Who sold you this anger\nI suspect it was your friends\nOr was it a stranger\nConvincing you that this was the end\n\nAnd I would like to thank you\nFor coming round and doing this\nMy nights have been pretty painful\nLosing that pain was always the trick\n\nYou always said that I was lying\nThat I was just a selfish man\nBut I all ready gave it all away\nSo you can let go of my selfish hand\n\nSo bye bye bye bye bye\nI ain't got time to watch you cry\nCause I've been drinking seven hours now\nSympathy is a waste of my high\n\nAnd I would like to say it hurts me (but it don't)\nThat I don't know just what to do (but I do)\nBut it don't hurt when you're just killing time\nI was killing time and I think that you knew"},{"id":833520,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-pretty-girl-from-san-diego-lyrics","title":"Pretty Girl from San Diego","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"Tell her, tell her what I'm thinkin'\nTell her, tell her what I'm dreamin'\nAnd, hey, she just might just understand\nBaby would you listen to me\nCome across the kitchen to me\nAnd I will tell ya best I can\n‘Bout how I know you love me\nAnd how I want to love you back\n\nPeople, people, people, they make it sound so easy\nThey say just do what your heart tells you to\nBut sometimes you cannot feel it\nSometimes you cannot hear it\nSometimes it won't talk back to you\nAnd yeah I know you love me\nAnd yeah I want to love you back\nAnd how I know you love me\nAnd how I want to love you bad\n\nFar away I hear the rhythm of a song\nFar away I get the feeling I belong, and so do you\nAnd it goes like this\n\nOh no, no, don't want to leave you\nOh no, I want to keep you\nOh but I want to let you be\nOh no, I don't want to hear you\nSay I don't want to be near you\nOh but I've got to set you free\nAnd how I know you love me\nAnd how I want to love you back\nAnd yeah I know you love me\nAnd yeah I want to love you bad\n\nFar away I hear the rhythm of a song\nFar away I get the feeling I belong, and so do you\nAnd it goes like this\n\nLa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la\nLa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la\nLa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la\nLa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la"},{"id":5726199,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-prison-to-heaven-lyrics","title":"Prison To Heaven","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"Swaying, it's a hard decision am I gonna leave this prison\nIf they tell me one more time to get in line, I'm gonna breakaway\nBut I'm sure that every single prison guard that walks around this prison yard\nIs gonna have a shot at me if he sees me running for the gate\n\nI'd be better off dead, full of lead, rather than delay one more day\nLetting my mind and my body rot away in this awful place\nI'd be floating way up so high looking down\nAt all my buddies saying, “You chumps, you suckers\nI hope one day you can find the guts to escape”\n\nWell, you might say, “How come you so sure heaven's where you're going?\nYou ain't exactly been showin' the ways of an angel, glory bound”\nI must admit you got a point, but I got a feeling the ceiling ain't so far\nAnd Yahweh just may want a couple words with yours truly\n\nSo I'll be walking right up to those big pearly gates, saying, “Hey Saint Peter, ol' Buddy, ol' pal\nHow's the family, how's work, how's the kids?\nWhat do you say, how's about crackin' those gates?\nAnd lettin' a fine upstanding fellow like myself join the club?”\n\nAnd he might say, “Ah, Mr. Avett you can save it, I ain't gonna be buying any of that lyin’, jive, hustlin'\nBoldfaced, fake conman nonsense that you used to get by with\nDown there on Earth\n\nAnd I'll say, “Come on, surely you and God of all people ought to know\nI was innocent of those crimes, I told you so\nEvery night by myself in that cell\nSurrounded by nothing but grey and quiet”\n\nWell dear God, maybe I should just be talking straight to you\nThe truth is I lost my way somewhere along the way\nAnd if you got a minute would you spend it with a sinner?\nJust long enough to give me some directions home"},{"id":4062353,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-roses-and-sacrifice-lyrics","title":"Roses and Sacrifice","albumTitle":"Roses and Sacrifice — Single","albumId":480151,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nWords only won’t suffice\nRoses and sacrifice for you\nDarling don’t get me wrong\nI've loved for long enough to tell\n\n[Chorus 1]\nYou’re not slowing down\nWaiting for anyone anymore\nYou know just what you want\n\n[Verse 2]\nSpent too much time apart\nGod bless, we got to start again\nYour heart’s been suffering\nI try to hold it every now and then\n\n[Chorus 1]\nYou’re not slowing down\nWaiting for anyone anymore\nYou know just what you need\n\n[Bridge 1]\nOur life together\nCouldn’t start too soon\nAnd so we had to settle for\nA short honeymoon\n\n[Verse 3]\nMove heaven and earth for you\nProve we can make it through the pain\nCan’t always disagree\nWe’ll find somewhere to meet, I know\n\n[Bridge 2]\nBetween our wildest dreams\nAnd where reality seems to fall\n\n[Chorus 2]\n(I’m not slowing down)\nI’m not slowing down\n(Waiting for)\nI’m not waiting for anyone anymore\nI know just what I want\nAnd I know just what I need\nI know just what I want"},{"id":833811,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-salina-lyrics","title":"Salina","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"Salina, I'm as nowhere as I can be\nCould you add some somewhere to me\nAh Kansas I'm kneeling, ah Kansas please\n\nCleveland, I ain't never felt nothing so strong\nBeen believing the words to my songs\nOhio I'm leaving, Ohio I'm gone\n\nFrom town to town and state to state\nThere's people everywhere that try to capture us\nWe stole the cash and left our names\nAnd almost slipped in Indianapolis\nThe rain it fell, the story went on\nThe rain it fell, and we got gone\n\nPoughkeepsie, hang up the telephone\nWon't answer your phone calls no more\nNew York quit callin', New York leave me be\n\nI'm changing the plans that I've been setting on\nI'm scared by the way that my life is getting gone\nCarolina one day I'll, someday I'll come home\nCarolina one day I'll, someday I'll come home\nHome"},{"id":833640,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-salvation-song-lyrics","title":"Salvation Song","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"If you take my heart\nDon't leave the smallest part\nI've no need to live if you're to come up gone\nAn as my life turns to a song\nAnd if and when I treat you wrong\nNo I never want to hurt our family\n\nAnd I would give up everything\nNo this is not just about me\nAnd I don't know a plainer way to say it Babe\nAnd they may pay us off in fame\nThough that is not why we came\nAnd I know well and good that won't heal our hearts\n\nWe came for salvation\nWe came for family\nWe came for all that's good that's how we'll walk away\nWe came to break the bad\nWe came to cheer the sad\nWe came to leave behind the world a better way\n\nNow if I'm walkin' through the rain\nAnd I hear you call my name\nI will break into a run without a pause\nAnd if your love laughs at your dreams\nWell it's not as bad as it seems\nEither way one of them has got to go\nAnd if you take of my soul\nYou can still leave it whole\nWith the pieces of you own you leave behind\n\nWe came for salvation\nWe came for family\nWe came for all that's good that's how we'll walk away\nWe came to break the bad\nWe came to cheer the sad\nWe came to leave behind the world a better way\n\nAnd I would give up everything\nAnd if you were to come up clean\nAnd see you shine so bright in a world of woe\nAnd they may pay us off in fame\nBut that is not why we came\nAnd if it compromises truth then we will go\n\nWe came for salvation\nWe came for family\nWe came for all that's good that's how we'll walk away\nWe came to break the bad\nWe came to cheer the sad\nWe came to leave behind the world a better way"},{"id":174202,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-sanguine-lyrics","title":"Sanguine","albumTitle":"The Gleam","albumId":36699,"lyrics":"Make me sanguine\nHelp me genuinely\nKill the doubt that strangles myself worth\nPaint the picture that I swore I heard\n\nSpiritless and mean\nGhost that comes between\nI will keep my wits about myself\nDisregard directions sent from hell\n\nWhen it brings the gleam\nLonger lasting than me\nOh my love but we are bound to die\nMy heart is broke but you won't hear me cry\nOh my love but we are bound to die\nMy heart is broke but you won't see me"},{"id":2494712,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-satan-pulls-the-strings-lyrics","title":"Satan Pulls the Strings","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"Baby's in the cradle\nMama's in the bed\nSparrows on the window sill\nAnd the devil's in my head\nDevil's in my head, mama\nThe devil's in my head\nBaby's in the cradle\nAnd the devil's in my head\n\nWhen the winter yields to summertime\nThe whip-poor-will, she sings\nMy heart is in the puppet box and Satan pulls the strings\n(That's right)\nSatan pulls the strings, mama\nSatan pulls the strings\nMy heart is in the puppet box and Satan pulls the strings\n\nWell the front beat's in my brother, Lord\nAnd the back beat's in me\nGod is in the song and the devil's in our feet\nMy God, devil's in our feet, mama\nThe devil's in our feet\nGod is in the song and the devil's in our feet, oh\n\nMama's cooking something up\nServe it to us all\nSatan's ringing in now and I gotta take the call\nI gotta take the call, boys\nGotta take the call\nSatan's ringing in now and I gotta take the call\n\nBaby's in the cradle\n(Baby's in the cradle)\nMama's in the bed\n(Mama's in the bed)\nSparrows on the window sill\nAnd the devil's in my head\n(Devil's in my head)\nDevil's in my head, mama\nThe devil's in my head\nBaby's in the cradle\nAnd the devil's in my head"},{"id":833570,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-shame-lyrics","title":"Shame","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"Okay so I was wrong about\nMy reasons for us fallin' out\nOf love I want to fall back in\n\nMy life is different now I swear\nI know now what it means to care\nAbout somebody other than myself\n\nI know the things I said to you\nThey were untender and untrue\nI'd like to see those things undo\n\nSo if you could find it in your heart\nTo give a man a second start\nI promise things won't end the same\n\nShame, boatloads of shame\nDay after day, more of the same\nBlame, please lift it off\nPlease take it off, please make it stop\n\nOkay so I have read the mail\nThe stories people often tell\nAbout us that we never knew\n\nBut their existence will float away\nAnd just like every word they say\nAnd we will hold hands as they fade\n\nShame, boatloads of shame\nDay after day, more of the same\nBlame, please lift it off\nPlease take it off, please make it stop\n\nI felt so sure of everything\nMy love to you so well received\nAnd I just strutted around your town\nKnowing I didn't let you down\nThe truth be known, the truth be told\nMy heart was always fairly cold\nPosing to be as warm as yours\nMy way of getting in your world\nBut now I'm out and I've had time\nTo look around and think\nAnd sink into another world\nThat's filled with guilt and overwhelming\n\nShame, boatloads of shame\nDay after day, more of the same\nBlame, please lift it off\nPlease take it off, please make it stop\n\nAnd everyone they have a heart\nAnd when they break and fall apart\nAnd need somebody's helping hand\n\nI used to say just let 'em fall\nIt wouldn't bother me at all\nI couldn't help them now I can"},{"id":833445,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-signs-lyrics","title":"Signs","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"It's the place and your friends that got me down\nTellin' me I should not hang around\nThere's a sign in the window\nTellin' me I've got to go\n\nI see the signs everyday\nIn your face and in your way that you act\nIt's not that it hurts my pride\nNow I see the other side of you\nThe side that won't let down\nThe side that won't let go\n\nI didn't mean for me to see\nThings I see in you and me\nBut know I know that we can't live together\nThe way I want to live free forever"},{"id":1767217,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-sixteen-in-july-lyrics","title":"Sixteen in July","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"What was it like for you\nI can tell you in truth what it was like for me\nTo be sixteen in July, sixteen in July\nLicense in my hand\nFreedom on my mind\nI was sixteen in July, sixteen in July\nWith summer to my left\nAnd no one to my right\nWhat did you want to hear on your radio\nEven if it did not come in clear\nYou'd still be sixteen in July, sixteen in July\nWith license in your hand\nAnd freedom on your mind\nIf you're sixteen in July, sixteen in July\nWith summer to your left\nAnd no one to your right\nFor me it was shortcut road\nThe girl was new and the car was old\nWere you in love like me?\nOr at least as in love as you can be?\nWhen you're sixteen in July, sixteen in July\nWith license in your hand\nAnd freedom on your mind\nI was sixteen in July, sixteen in July\nWith summer to my left, and no one to my right"},{"id":832991,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-skin-and-bones-lyrics","title":"Skin And Bones","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"It's the skin and bones that keep me on the road\nThe shoulderblades of a beast that haunts my soul\nWandering lonely and scared\nI live the tragedy I shared\n\nIt's quick to drag you in but hard to shake\nA gift that doesn't match how much it takes\nGrowing stronger and loud\nI lived it but now I'm wanting out\n\nI built the fence, I hung the sign\nWine red letters saying 'Keep in mind\nWhere I been so don't come in'\nBut how long can you live in shame\nAnd drop a life long curse on your own last name\nThe trouble is, I'm used to it\n\nIt's the questions that keep me turning back\nTo see those rumors turned to fact\nWandering lonely and scared\nI live the tragedy I shared\n\nI built the fence, I hung the sign\nBlood red letters saying 'Keep in mind\nWhere we've been so don't come in'\nBut how long can we live in shame\nAnd drop a life long curse on your own last name\nThe trouble is, we're used to it\nThe trouble is, we're used to it\nThe trouble is, we're used to it\n\nIt's the tin and boards that keep me going home\nBut it's who I am that won't let me alone\nGrowing stronger and loud\nGrowing stronger and loud\nGrowing stronger and loud"},{"id":834144,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-slight-figure-of-speech-lyrics","title":"Slight Figure of Speech","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"They say you gotta lose a couple fights to win\nIt's hard to tell from where I'm sitting\nThey say that this is where the fun begins\nGuess it's time that I was quitting\n\nA slight figure of speech\nI cut my chest wide open\nThey come and watch us bleed\nIs it all like I was hoping now\n\nThey said \"I hope that you will never change\"\nI went and cut my hair\nThey said \"Don't take your business to the big town\"\nI bought us tickets there\n\nA slight figure of speech\nI cut my chest wide open\nThey come and watch us bleed\nIs it all like I was hoping now\n\nWhat did you expect\nAnd what did you forget\nThat to live you let go of me with each step\nIt becomes a progression I won't let regret manifest\nTo aggression\nAre you to assess what I've been? What I am? Or become?\nDid you stop to accept how pathetically dumb\nIt can be to\nAttack those around 'cause you're\nTrue to color, a town, a time, or a place?\nIt's not you, it's not mine\nAnd besides it is gone\nAnd you never will find it again\nBut I don't want to fight\nI just ask let me be\nI won't give the chance to be my enemy\nSo go home\nThink it through\n\nA jet plane and a big idea\nI jump over the seat\nWhat Ifs hot on my trail\nBut they can't catch me, no\n\nA slight figure of speech\nI cut my chest wide open\nThey come and watch us bleed\nIs it all like I was hoping now"},{"id":2671823,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-smithsonian-lyrics","title":"Smithsonian","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nCall the Smithsonian, I made a discovery\nLife ain't forever and lunch isn't free\nLoved ones will break your heart with or without you\nTurns out we don't get to know everything\n\n[Verse 1]\nGet the young scientists, tell them \"come quick\"\nI must be the first man that's ever seen this\nLines on my face, my teeth are not white\nMy eyes do not work and my legs don't move right\n\n[Chorus]\nCall the Smithsonian, I made a discovery\nLife ain't forever and lunch isn't free\nLoved ones will break your heart with or without you\nTurns out we don't get to know everything\n\n[Verse 2]\nI wonder if Romeo ever got scared\nTaken but shaken, unprepared\nUnder the balcony, under the trees\nFully unknowing of where this would lead\nWhat if we marry or give up the ghost?\nOr we abandon those we love most?\nWhat if you carry me and lay me down\nOnce you get used to me being around?\n\n[Chorus]\nCall the Smithsonian, I made a discovery\nLife ain't forever and lunch isn't free\nLoved ones will break your heart with or without you\nTurns out we don't get to know everything\n\n[Bridge]\nMy bedroom's an office, my kitchen's a car\nMy life is a joke and my bathroom's a bar\nI go there a lot, more than I should\nI know I should stop, but it feels too damn good\n\n[Chorus]\nCall the Smithsonian, I made a discovery\nLife ain't forever and lunch isn't free\nLoved ones will break your heart with or without you\nTurns out we don't get to know everything\nTurns out we don't get to know everything"},{"id":833474,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-smoke-in-our-lights-lyrics","title":"Smoke in Our Lights","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"You're not a girl, you're a town\nYou're snow on the ground\nYou're my first year in school\nYou're the words in a song that Hoon sang to me\nAnd all around my memories, you dance\n\nYou're not a girl, you're a car\nYou're a red Trans Am\nYou're 90 miles an hour\nWe never get caught cause there's no cops around\nAnd no roads like this, downtown\n\nWhy'd we have to change\nIt all seems so fine\nWe'll go our own ways\nWe're both asking\nWhy'd we have to change\nIt all seems so fine\nWe'll go our own ways\nWe're both asking, why\n\nYou're not a girl, you're the night of the homecoming game\nYou're the voice in my head\nJust begging me to stay\nYou're the smoke in our lights as we sped away\nTo catch the moonlight on the graves\n\nYou're not a girl, you're a waltz\nYou're a canopy bed\nYou're June to August\nYou're the back and forth sway of the hammock all day\nWhen I asked you what did you say?\n\nWhy'd we have to change\nIt all seems so fine\nWe'll go our own ways\nWe're both asking\nWhy'd we have to change\nIt all seems so fine\nWe'll go our own ways\nWe're both asking, why"},{"id":833702,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-sorry-man-lyrics","title":"Sorry Man","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Your mama doesn't like me\nShe thinks I'm a sorry man\nWhen she tells her friends about me\nShe says I'm a sorry man\nAnd she asks you each day\nWhy would you stay with a sorry man\nWell I was doing my best\nJust trying to impress, still a sorry man\nAnd I've got news for your ma\nI'm the best she ever saw\nNo one could love your daughter like I do\n\nYour mama told you father\nShe said I'm a sorry man\nSo he told me not to ever\nCome back here again\nSo I told your dear old daddy\nThat he can't keep us apart\nBecause it's you and not your parents\nWho can break my heart\nAnd I've got news for your ma\nI'm the best she ever saw\nNo one could love your daughter like I do\n\nWell I tried to tell your mama\nBut I didn't want to fight\nWell they'll be the same tomorrow\nSo we're leaving here tonight\nTomorrow they'll be waking\nTo a sad sorry dawn\nAnd then they'll be sorry\nWhen they see that we're gone\nCause I've got news for your ma\nI'm the best she ever saw\nNo one could love your daughter like I do"},{"id":833807,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-souls-like-the-wheels-lyrics","title":"Souls Like the Wheels","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"Souls like the wheels\nTurning, taking us with wind at our heels\nBurning, making us decide on what we're giving\nChange this way of living\n\nOne little song\nGive me strength to the leave the sad and the wrong\nBuried safely in the past where I've been living\nAlive but unforgiving\n\nLet me go, let me go, let me go, let me go\nLet me go, let me go, let me go, let me go\n\nOne little girl\nBring me light from where I thought it was dark\nBe the spark that has a chance to light a candle\nLove that I can handle\n\nLet me go, let me go, let me go, let me go\nLet me go, let me go, let me go, let me go\n\nSouls like the wings\nSpreading out away from bad memories\nMake us capable of taking off and landing\nAlive with understanding\n\nLet me go, let me go, let me go, let me go\nLet me go, let me go, let me go, let me go"},{"id":833389,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-spanish-pipedream-lyrics","title":"Spanish Pipedream","albumTitle":"Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine","albumId":411096,"lyrics":"Anything we should know about your change?\nShe was a level headed dancer on the road to alcohol\nAnd I was just a soldier on the way to Montreal\nWell, she pressed her chest against me\nAbout the time the jukebox broke\nShe gave me a peck on the back of the neck\nAnd these are the words she spoke\n\nBlow up your T.V., throw away your paper\nMove to the country, build you a home\nPlant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches\nTry to find Jesus on your own\n\nSo I sat there at the table and I acted real naive\n'Cause I knew that topless lady\nHad something up her sleeve\nWell, she danced around the bar room\nAnd she did the hoochy-coo\nShe sang her song all night long, tellin' me what to do\n\nBlow up your T.V., throw away your paper\nMove to the country, build you a home\nPlant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches\nTry to find Jesus on your own\n\nWell, I was young and hungry and about to leave that place\nWhen just as I was leavin', well she looked me in the face\nI said, \\\"You must have the answer\\\"\n\\\"She said, \\\"No but I'll give it a try\\\"\nAnd to this very day we've been livin' our way\nAnd here is the reason why\n\nWe blew up our T.V., threw away our paper\nMoved to the country, built us a home\nHad a lot of children, fed 'em on peaches\nThey all found Jesus on their own\n\nBlow up your T.V., throw away your paper\nMove to the country, build you a home\nPlant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches\nTry to find Jesus on your own"},{"id":832917,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-sss-lyrics","title":"SSS","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Never thought I'd feel\nFeel the way I do\nWhen I'm in your arms\nBa da ba ba\nSing your melody to me\nAnd if you want me to leave\nI'd walk away from this old farm\nBa da ba ba\n\nBaby, baby\nThere ain't no cows left for milking\nBaby, baby\nThere ain't no chickens laying nothing\nI'll walk on anything for you\nI'll walk on anything for you\nI'll walk off on anything for you\nI'll walk off on anything for you\n\nI was always told that\nI would find somebody\nI could keep a promise for\nBa da ba ba\nWords that don't mean a thing\nTo a broken-hearted man\nI felt that way before\nBa da ba ba\n\nBaby, baby\nI don't remember feeling that way\nBaby, baby\nAnd I owe it all to you\nI'd take a nine to five for you\nI'll take that nine to five for you\nI'd take a nine to five for you\nI'll work that nine to five for you\n\nI'm convinced that nothings true\nJust cause love worked out for you\nDon't impress me no more\nBa da ba ba\nWords that don't mean a thing\nTo me I'm a broken-hearted man\nI got dreams but nothing to hope for\nBa da ba ba\n\nLady, lady\nKeep your distance I mean no good\nLady, lady\nI'm broken-hearted and I think the world should\nAll be broken-hearted too\nAll be broken-hearted too\nAll be broken-hearted too\nYa'll should be broken-hearted too\nI'd like to give all my pain to you\nIf I could I'd give all my pain to you"},{"id":833399,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-standing-with-you-lyrics","title":"Standing With You","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"Well it’s been a pretty rough\nCouple of years but I think things\nWill change for us\nAnd I always will put you before me\nUnless, of course, it’s dangerous\n\nStanding with you\nStanding with you\nI might miss the rhythm\nBut I’m catching the tune\nAnd that’s pretty good for me\n\nWell I told you I won't make the same mistakes again\nBut you know I probably will\nAnd so many nights go by like a flash\nLike a camera without any film\nBut we dont need to remember every single moment we’ve had\nAnd I don’t need understanding for every single moment I’ve had\n\nNo\nAs long as I’m\n\nStanding with you\nSatnding with you\nI might miss the ryhthm\nBut I’m catching the tune\nAnd that’s something for me\nStanding with you\nStanding with you\nI might miss the meaning\nBut I’m catching the truth\nAnd that’s pretty good for me\n\nWell it’s been a pretty rough couple of years\nBut I think things will change for us"},{"id":834430,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-st-josephs-lyrics","title":"St. Joseph’s","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"We spent the night at St. Joseph's\nShaking and shivering in fever\nNurses and criminals before us\nI will stay here with you…my love\n\nWe sat at Lake Junaluska\nAnd cried over where we would wed\nIf it's this place or any other\nIt's not where I am…it's who I'm with\n\nNews came of a child\nBorn unto a world\nOf people, demented and wild\nI will be here for you…my love\n\nWhat was our reason for fighting\nSelfish and centered at best\nI give up on trying\nTo understand why we were blessed\n\nWe'll spend the night at…St. Joseph's"},{"id":833135,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-swept-away-lyrics","title":"Swept Away","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Well, you send my life a whirling\nDarling when you're twirling\nOn the floor\nWho cares about tomorrow?\nWhat more is tomorrow?\nThan another day\n\nWhen you swept me away\nYeah, you swept me away\n\nI see the end of the rainbow\nBut what more is a rainbow\nThan colors out of reach\nIf you come down to my window\nAnd I climb out my window\nThen we'll get out of reach\n\nThen, you swept me away\nYeah, you swept me away\n\nYou said with such honest feeling\nBut what'd you really mean\nWhen you said that I'm your man\nWell how my darling can it be\nWhen you have never seen me\nAnd you never will again\n\nThat you swept me away\nYeah, you swept me away\n\nLife is ever changing but I will always\nFind a constant and comfort in your love\nWith your heart my soul is bound\nAnd as we dance I know that heaven can be found\n\nWell, you send my life a whirling\nDarling when you're twirling\nOn the floor\nWho cares about tomorrow?\nWhat more is tomorrow?\nThan another day\n\nWhen you swept me away\nYeah, you swept me away\nYeah, you swept me away"},{"id":833881,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-swept-away-sentimental-version-lyrics","title":"Swept Away (Sentimental Version)","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Well you send my life a whirling\nDarling when you're twirling\nOn the floor\nWho cares about tomorrow?\nWhat more is tomorrow?\nThan another day\n\nWhen you swept me away\nYeah you swept me away\n\nI see the end of the rainbow\nBut what more is a rainbow\nThan colors out of reach\nIf you come down to my window\nAnd I climb out my window\nThen we'll get out of reach\n\nThen you swept me away\nYeah you swept me away\n\nYou said with such honest feeling\nBut what'd you really mean\nWhen you said that I'm your man\nWell how my darling can it be\nWhen you have never seen me\nAnd you never will again\n\nThat you swept me away\nYeah you swept me away\n\nLife is ever changing but I will always\nFind a constant and comfort in your love\nWith your heart my soul is bound\nAnd as we dance I know that heaven can be found\n\nWell you send my life a whirling\nDarling when you're twirling\nOn the floor\nWho cares about tomorrow?\nWhat more is tomorrow?\nThan another day\n\nWhen you swept me away\nYeah you swept me away\nYeah you swept me away"},{"id":833514,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-tales-of-coming-news-lyrics","title":"Tales Of Coming News","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"I'm so tired of hearing tales of coming news\nTelling tales of a changing sky\nIt's just a shame that I didn't notice you\nTill someone I loved had to die\n\nWhat made us think that this was so different?\nWho is driving behind those things you say?\nWhy do you insult me and my friends?\nWho are my friends anyway?\n\nI've spent my life lying now I pay the price\nAre these really words of a young man or a worthless human life\nI don't mean to scare you with the things I say\nI take it back, yes it's a beautiful day\n\nI watched you from the beach when your ship sailed\nYou made it clear that nothing stays the same\nIt's getting darker I wonder if you can tell\nI wonder when it all had changed\n\nYou never used to let me go unveiled\nI was so distracted I never saw the rain\nYou promised you meant every word you said\nI wonder when it all had changed\n\nIt hurts so bad to hear such pretty words\nComing from somebody like you\nI've been looking for so long that I've lost touch\nWith what's the best something to do\n\nI've got a friend who makes good choices\nEverybody likes the way that he sees things\nI've got a problem and it walks me daily\nCan't you see no one is proud of me\n\nIt's a long road alone and I'm not proving\nAnything going by myself\nWhen your love life is all that's really moving\nOh sugar girl I do appreciate the help\n\nI had my fun with money gold and diamonds\nBoth went sour before they got to me\nI'll be waiting girl but don't go counting hours\nI'm not waiting for any other three\n\nI was just a peasant from the highlands\nShe said don't you call me your mountain girl\nI said don't bother me I'm trying to write and\nDon't worry you ain't my mountain girl\n\nI can call you but I'd probably make you cry\nThese days it's what you often times do\nCall the preacher then go call your father\nTell them that the wedding plans have moved\n\nI sent a message, said I'll be gone forever\nThe letter of reply never came\nShe said that she'd be true but I wouldn't let her\nI wonder when it all had changed\n\nHell has no fury like a woman\nHappy scorned or otherwise\nYou can do what you want to with your name\nBut you can bet I'm changing mine\n\nWell I'd give a $100 to get a letter\nIf at the bottom it said I miss you bad\nSee but the truth of the matter is no one back home really misses me\nSee how I talk when I'm sad\n\nSince I was young I've known a lot of women..."},{"id":833579,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-talk-on-indolence-lyrics","title":"Talk on Indolence","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Well I've been lockin' myself up in my house for sometime now\nReadin' and writin' and readin' and thinkin'\nAnd searching for reasons and missing the seasons\nThe Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow\nThe record will stop and the record will go\nLatches latched the windows down\nThe dog coming in and the dog going out\nUp with caffeine and down with a shot\nConstantly worried about what I've got\nDistracting my work but I can't make a stop\nAnd my confidence on and my confidence off\nAnd I sink to the bottom and rise to the top\nAnd I think to myself that I do this a lot\nWorld outside just goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes...\nAnd witness it all from the blinds of my window\nTHREE, FOUR\n\nI'm a little nervous 'bout what you'll think\nWhen you see me in my swimming trunks\nAnd last night in New York I got raging drunk\nRemember one time I got raging drunk with you\n\nNow, I can recall a time when we made the city\nStreets our playground, swimming in the fountains\nFilled with cigarettes and bottles\nSped through Italian city streets of cobblestone\n\nBecause we had to\nBecause I loved you\nBecause the damned alcohol\nBecause what ever at all\n\nNow I've grown too aware of my mortality\nTo let go and forget about dying\nLong enough to drop the hammer down\nAnd let the indolence go wild and flying through\n\nBecause we had to"},{"id":415398,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-tear-down-the-house-lyrics","title":"Tear Down the House","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"Tear down the house that I grew up in\nI'll never be the same again\nTake everything that I've collected\nAnd throw it in a pile\n\nBulldoze the woods that I ran through\nCarry the pictures of me and you\nI have no memory of who I once was\nAnd I don't remember your name\n\nPark the old car that I love the best\nInspection's due and it won't pass the test\nIt's funny how I have to put it to rest\nAnd how one day I will join it\n\nI remember crying over you\nAnd I don't mean like a couple of tears and I'm blue\nI'm talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon\nBut I'm a better man for having gone through it\nYes I'm a better man for having gone through\n\nEver since I learned how to curse\nI've been using those sorry old words\nBut I'm talking to these children and I'm keeping it clean\nI don't need those words to say what I mean, no\nI don't need those words to say what I mean\n\nTear down the house that I grew up in\nI'll never be the same again\nTake everything that I used to own\nAnd burn it in a pile\n\nAnd bulldoze the woods that I ran through\nCarry the pictures of me and you\nI have no memory of who I once was\nAnd I don't remember your name"},{"id":4918095,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-tell-the-truth-lyrics","title":"Tell the Truth","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nTell the truth to yourself\nAnd the rest will fall in place\nTell the truth to yourself\nAnd the rest will fall in place\n\n[Verse 1]\nI lied to the doctor\nI lied to my lover\n\n[Pre-Chorus]\nI wanna make amends, but where do I start?\n\n[Chorus]\nTell the truth to yourself (Tell the truth)\nAnd the rest will fall in place (To your)\nTell the truth to yourself (Tell the truth)\nAnd the rest will fall in place\n\n[Bridge]\nAh, ah\nAh, ah\nTell the truth to yourself\nTell the truth\n\n[Interlude]\nI can make my mother, my father, my sister, my brother\nMy lover, my neighbor, my friends all happy\nGive of myself whatever they ask\nBut without this single truth\nIt is only emptiness that I cast\nA happiness that will not last\nBut I'm not here for that\nFor what does happiness help\nWithout this simple truth given to thyself?\n\n[Verse 2]\nI was the coward\nHow they strangled your heart\n\n[Pre-Chorus]\nI wanna make amends, but where do I start?\n\n[Chorus]\nTell the truth to yourself\nAnd the rest will fall in place\nTell the truth to yourself\nAnd the rest will fall in place\nTell the truth to yourself (Tell the truth)\nAnd the rest will fall in place (To your)\nTell the truth to yourself (Tell the truth)\nAnd the rest will fall in place"},{"id":833572,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-ten-thousand-words-lyrics","title":"Ten Thousand Words","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"Ten thousand words swarm 'round my head\nTen million more in books written beneath my bed\nI wrote or read them all when searchin' in the swarms\nStill can't find how to hold my hands\n\nAnd I know you need me in the next room over\nBut I am stuck in here all paralyzed\nFor months I got myself in ruts\nToo much time spent in mirrors framed in yellow walls\n\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about\n\nAnd everyone around me shakes their head in disbelief\nAnd says I'm too caught up\nThey say young is good and old is fine\nAnd truth is cool but all that matters\nIs you have your good times\nBut their good times come with prices\nAnd I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make\nAt anyone's expense except their own\nWould they laugh if they knew who paid?\n\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about\n\nAnd after we are through ten years\nOf making it to be the most of glorious debuts\nI'll come back home without my things\nCause the clothes I wore out there I will not wear 'round you\nAnd they'll be quick to point out our shortcomings\nAnd how the experts all have had their doubts\n\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about\n\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about\nAin't it like most people? I'm no different\nWe love to talk on things we don't know about"},{"id":283830,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-ballad-of-love-and-hate-lyrics","title":"The Ballad Of Love And Hate","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"Love writes a letter and sends it to Hate:\n\"My vacation's ending, I'm coming home late\nThe weather was fine and the ocean was great\nAnd I can't wait to see you again\"\n\nHate reads the letter and throws it away\n\"No one here cares if you go or you stay\nI barely even noticed that you were away\nI'll see you or I won't, whatever\"\n\nLove sings a song as she sails through the sky\nThe water looks bluer through her pretty eyes\nAnd everyone knows it whenever she flies\nAnd also when she comes down\n\nHate keeps his head up and walks through the street\nEvery stranger and drifter he greets\nAnd shakes hands with every loner he meets\nWith a serious look on his face\n\nLove arrives safely with suitcase in tow\nCarrying with her the good things we know\nA reason to live and a reason to grow\nTo trust, to hold, to care\n\nHate sits alone on the hood of his car\nWithout much regard to the moon or the stars\nLazily killing the last of a jar\nOf the strongest stuff you can drink\n\nLove takes a taxi, a young man drives\nAs soon he sees her hope fills his eyes\nBut tears follow after at the end of the ride\nBecause he might never see her again\n\nHate gets home lucky to still be alive\nHe screams over the sidewalk and into the drive\nThe clock in the kitchen says two-fifty-five\nAnd the clock in the kitchen is slow\n\nLove has been waiting patient and kind\nJust wanting a phone call or some kind of sign\nThat the one that she cares for who's out of his mind\nWill make it back safe to her arms\n\nHate stumbles forward and leans in the door\nWeary head hung down, eyes to the floor\nHe says, \"Love, I'm sorry,\" and she says, \"What for?\nI'm yours and that's it, whatever\nI should not have been gone for so long\nI'm yours and that's it, forever\nYou're mine and that's it, forever\""},{"id":833493,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-clearness-is-gone-lyrics","title":"The Clearness Is Gone","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"Well your hair fell on me like I dreamt that it would\nWhen I dreamt your hair was long\nThrough the linens a moment of clearness shown through\nIn a minute the clearness was gone\n\nWhen to know what I should for my heart to rest\nDoesn't meet with the actions I make\nI will seek the approval of no one but you\nIn love for the changes I take\n\nThe first time we fell for it\nWe blamed it on youth\nAnd now we get hell for it\nAnd blame it on truth\n\nOf mind, oh my\nOf mind, oh my\nOf mind, oh my\n\nWell your hair fell on me like I dreamt that it would\nWhen I dreamt that your hair was long\nThrough the linens a moment of clearness shown through\nIn a minute the clearness was gone"},{"id":1760569,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-day-that-marvin-gaye-died-lyrics","title":"The Day That Marvin Gaye Died","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"I think I dreamed you, again last night\nI hope wherever you are, things turned out right\nBut it's never the same, when you lose and you gain\n\nI see the truth now\nI see the truth now\nI just want to hold you\nI should have told you\nWe are in love\nWe are in ...\n\nYou tan stomach; and that mole on your lip\nWe coulda had it all in one time; if I didn't slip\nTrip on my words; and land on my heart\n\nI see the truth now\nI see the truth now\nI just want to hold you\nI should have told you\nWe are in love\nWe are in ...\nWe are in ...\nWe are in ...\n\nThe road can be cold\nAnd it's always long\nThe sermon I whisper these days\nAre the words to a song\nAre you in the old town?\nAre you buckled in?\n\nIt's not the same\nOur lives are not the same\nI still want to hold you\nI should have told you\nWe are in love\nWe are in ...\n\nLove is on it's way\nThe dying wish of Marvin Gaye\nMichelle I know you'll understand\nThe answers in your hands\nThe answers in your hands"},{"id":2226183,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-d-bag-rag-lyrics","title":"The D Bag Rag","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"(instrumental)"},{"id":832836,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-fall-lyrics","title":"The Fall","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"Well bring me something new that I haven't felt before\nLike messages of love and directions to your door\nBut please talk slowly, I don't hear good anymore\nAnd we all fall down\nAnd we all fall down\n\nDon't die on me lady, only good things can come\nTo those who practice reason and recognize good fun\nYour absence is the bullet and the past is your gun\nAnd we all fall down\nAnd we all fall down\n\nShe still doesn't answer though she knows shes done wrong\nWe buried the memories along with the songs\nWhen she wakes up, I hope that we are gone\nAnd we all fall down\nAnd we all fall down\n\nThere's a visitor in black at my neighbors house\nMy neighbor says tomorrow the visitor says now\nWhen he comes here please tell him that I'm out\nAnd we all fall down\nAnd we all fall down"},{"id":5726204,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-fire-lyrics","title":"The Fire","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nA young child sits quiet, the forest is dark\nPossibilities overflow his unbroken heart\nI ask him well after the brush takes the spark\nWhat do you see in the fire?\nI see light within color and color in light\nTrophies I'll take home and battles I'll fight\nA bright blue horizon with no pain in sight\nI'll be there and so will my parents and you're invited too\n\n[Verse 2]\nA life-sentence inmate in orange prisoner clothes\nWho's been told his whole life that's just how it goes\nWho came out swinging from poverty row\nSits a bit close to the dangerous glow\nWhat do ya see in the fire?\nI see rich people laughin' with food on their plates\nAnd neighborhood bullies imprinted with hate\nMoms and dads screaming at each other insane\nAnd hard grey redemption a little too late\nAnd I see myself as I might've been\nI’m handsome, and capable, and funny\n\n[Verse 3]\nA young woman in college entranced by the flames is pondering silent how perfectly strange\nA girl could be called by so many names and not one be the one she was given\nWhat do you see in the fire?\nI see myself in the mirror, not pretty enough\nAnd digital images reducing love\nMy roommate enslaved by expectations above\nAnd then I see the face of my mother\n\n[Verse 4]\nA first year preacher stands on his feet\nHis love for man kind is true and complete\nWhile the frigid wind blows through the trees\nI ask as he leans away from the heat\n\"What do you see in the fire?\"\nI see swirling confusion, question, and loss\nAnd I know all about Christ and the cross\nBut I cannot explain the Holocaust\nI stuttered when a young man asked me to\nI just couldn’t find the words\n\n[Verse 5]\nA woman of ninety with wisdom in spades\nHer mind still as sharp as her kitchen blades\nI ask as her memory nonetheless fades\n\"What do you see in the fire?\"\nI see the touch of my husband who recently passed\nOur hometown before the roads got so fast\nAnd I see it now in an impatient blur\nAnd I see how in love we were\nI see the good Lord offering mercy\nI see the good Lord offering mercy\nI see the good Lord offering mercy\n\n[Verse 6]\nSomeone I care for, she sits by my side\nI can feel the past and the future collide\nShe leans in and whispers, “Don't think, just decide\"\nWhat do you see in the fire?\nI see the faces of my victims whose hearts I once broke\nCalm and alive in the curling smoke\nAll I can do is sit here and hope\nThey may find a way to forgive me\n\n[Outro]\nThere's something unspoken there in your eyes\nA pain or a love I don't recognize\nI better ask you now before it dies\nWhat do you see in the fire?"},{"id":833679,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-greatest-sum-lyrics","title":"The Greatest Sum","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"This and who I used to be\nDon’t matter much at all to me\nThe pit you dug to plant your feet’s\nA far cry from my destiny\nNot even the clouds\nNot even the past\nNot even the hands of God\nCould hold me back from you\n\nDark and lonely is the ride\nThe devil always by my side\nThough no match for what lies between\nA thought of you, your trust for me\nNot even the sun\nA bullet from a gun\nNo nothing that this world could bring\nOr anything someone could do\nCould hold me back from you\n\nNo count of gold placed in my hand\nThe largest find, the greatest sum\nThough some would say it’d ease our pain\nWe know that it can’t be done\nNot even the sun\nNot even the clouds\nNot even the past\nNo nothing that this world could bring\nOr anything someone could do\nCould hold me back from you\nCould hold me back from you\nCould hold me back from you"},{"id":834150,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-greatest-sum-electric-lyrics","title":"The Greatest Sum (Electric)","albumTitle":"The Second Gleam","albumId":15109,"lyrics":"Listen, who I used to be\nDon't matter much at all to me\nTo pin you down, to plant your feet's\nA far cry from my destiny\n\nNot even the clouds\nNot even the past\nNot even the hands of God\nCould hold back from you\n\nDark and lonely is the ride\nThe devil always by my side\nThough no match for what lies between\nThe thought of you\nYour trust for me\n\nNot even the sun\nA bullet from a gun\nNo, nothing that this world could bring or\nAnything someone could do\nCould hold me back from you\n\nNo can of gold placed in my hand\nThe largest find\nThe greatest sum\nThough some would say\nIt'd ease our pain\nWe know that it can't be done\n\nNot even the sun\nNot even the clouds\nNot even the past\nNo, nothing that this world can bring or anything someone can do\nCould hold me back from you\nCould hold me back from you\nCould hold me back from you"},{"id":833038,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-lowering-a-sad-day-in-greenvilletown-lyrics","title":"The Lowering (A Sad Day in Greenvilletown)","albumTitle":"Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions","albumId":36716,"lyrics":"If I had known, your heart was down\nThat lonely day in Greenville town\nThen I would have been more concerned\nBut later on I truly learned\nHow it can feel in every bone\nTo really see you're all alone\n\nBut I'll kiss your head\nWhen death finds your bed\nAnd you are gone\n\nAnd if I had seen,the way it would be\nI'd hushed your cries, when you came to me\nIf I could do what I did to you\nThe same to me that I would love for you to see\nThat I sleep with remorse\nAnd regret hangs round my door...\nFor ever more\n\nIf I had known the lowering tide\nWas lowering with the way you felt inside\nIf I had known all hope was gone\nA broken heart and a broken home\nThat pierced, my lover's past\nAnd carved a lonely path...\nFor her to walk\n\nSo if ever someone one says to you\nLife isn't fair, get used to it\nThen you should say 'Well it might be\nIf folks like you would let it be\"\n\nBut I'll kiss your head\nWhen death becomes my bed\nAnd I am gone"},{"id":833141,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-new-love-song-lyrics","title":"The New Love Song","albumTitle":"Mignonette","albumId":244872,"lyrics":"Elegant and soft\nFeminine as you ought\nOne with earth and one with God\nWon't you please forgive me\nWon't you please forgive me\n\nAs the daylight sinks\nAs I fail to stop and think\nOnce I cursed the things I've done\nWon't you please forgive me\nWon't you please forgive me\n\nYoung bride take my name\nBurn the questions burn the shame\nYou don't have to live by them\nWon't you please forgive them\nWon't you please forgive them\n\nSleep well when the night time falls\nWait 'till morning when I call\nDon't believe the bad you saw\nWon't you please forgive them\n\nTenderness and grace\nHow you've come this place\nHowever dangerous or safe\nI'll find within you\nI'll find within you"},{"id":90815,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-once-and-future-carpenter-lyrics","title":"The Once and Future Carpenter","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI ain't from Texas, but I made my way from Dallas\nAnd I know the lonesome sound is following\nI ain't a gambler, but I can recognize a hand\nAnd when to hold when queens are staring back at me\nOnce I was a carpenter and man my hands were callused\nI could swing a metal mallet sure and straight\nBut I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry\nAnd I left the timbers rotting where they lay\n\n[Chorus]\nForever I will move\nLike the world that turns beneath me\nAnd when I lose my direction\nI'll look up to the sky\nAnd when the black cloak drags upon the ground\nI'll be ready to surrender\nAnd remember we're all in this together\nIf I live the life I'm given I won't be scared to die\n\n[Verse 2]\nI don't come from Detroit\nBut her diesel motors pulled me\nAnd I followed til I finally lost my way\nAnd now I spend my days in search\nOf a woman we call Purpose\nAnd if I ever pass back through her town I'd stay\n\n[Chorus]\nForever I will move\nLike the world that turns beneath me\nAnd when I lose my direction\nI'll look up to the sky\nAnd when the black dress drags upon the ground\nI'll be ready to surrender\nAnd remember we're all in this together\nIf I live the life I'm given I won't be scared to die\n\n[Verse 3]\nAnd my life is but a coin pulled from an empty pocket\nDropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind\nHope and fear go with it\nAnd the moon and the sun go spinning\nLike the numbers and the fruit before our eyes\n\nSometimes I hit\nSometimes it robs me blind\nSometimes I hit\nSometimes it robs me blind\n\n[Chorus]\nForever I will move\nLike the world that turns beneath me\nAnd when I lose my direction\nI'll look up to the sky\nAnd when the black cloak drags upon the ground\nI'll be ready to surrender\nAnd remember, we're all in this together\nIf I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die"},{"id":834163,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-perfect-space-lyrics","title":"The Perfect Space","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"I wanna have friends that I can trust\nThat love me for the man I've become\nNot the man that I was\nAnd I wanna have friends that will let me be\nAll alone when being alone is all that I need\n\nI wanna fit in to the perfect space\nFeel natural and safe in a volatile place\nAnd I wanna grow old without the pain\nGive my body back to the earth and not complain\nWill you understand when I am too old of a man?\nAnd will you forget when we have paid our debt?\nWho did we borrow from?\nWho did we borrow from?\n\nOkay part two now clear the house\nThe party's over take the shouting and the people\nGet out!\nI have some business and a promise that I have to hold to\nI do not care what you assume or what the people\nTold you!\nWill you understand, when I am too old of a man?\nWill you forget when we have paid our debts?\nWho did we borrow from?\nWho did we borrow from?\n\nI wanna have pride like my mother has\nAnd not like the kind in the bible that turns you bad\nI wanna have friends that I can trust\nThat love me for the man I've become\nNot the man that I was"},{"id":1750881,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-traveling-song-lyrics","title":"The Traveling Song","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Well I guess if my daddy hadn't brought me up\nDown a long dirt road in a pickup truck\nI'd feel alright, 'neath the city lights\nCouldn't leave the city lights it just ain't right\n\nI was born out west of Cheyenne town\nWhile my ma and pa was ramblin' 'round\nI'm a rambler too, but I'm country bound\nI'll travel till my country home is found\nAnd I will travel\nYeah, I will travel\nI will travel 'till my country home is found\n\nWell a country song on the radio\nCountry star but what do you know\nHe's a city boy singin country tunes\nI'm a country boy with those city blues\nSo I will travel\nYeah I will travel\nI will travel 'till my country home is found\n\nWell Chestertown (lets go), Albany (lets go), Neptune (lets go), Pittsburgh (let's go), Cleveland town (let's go),...\nEtc...\n\nI've got the wheels to ride and the wheels to run\nSome say I got ramblin' in my blood\nNo pretty girl can slow me down\nI'll travel 'till my country home is found\nSo I will travel\nI will travel\nI will travel till my country home is found\nYeah, I will travel\nI will travel\nI will travel 'till my country home is found"},{"id":834003,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-the-weight-of-lies-lyrics","title":"The Weight of Lies","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"Disappear from your hometown\nGo and find the people that you know\nShow them all you good parts\nLeave town when bad ones start to show\nGo and wed a woman\nA pretty girl that you've never met\nMake sure she knows you love her well\nBut don't make any other promises\n\nThe weight of lies will bring you down\nAnd follow you to every town\nCause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there\nSo when you run make sure you run\nTo something and not away from\nCause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you anywhere\n\nI once heard the worse thing\nA man can do is draw a hungry crowd\nTell everyone his name, pride, and confidence\nBut leaving out his doubt\nI'm not sure I bought those words\nWhen I was young I knew most everything\nThese words have never meant so much to anyone\nAs they now mean to me\n\nThe weight of lies will bring you down\nAnd follow you to every town\nCause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there\nSo when you run make sure you run\nTo something and not away from\nCause lies don't need an aeroplane to chase you down"},{"id":834062,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-those-green-eyes-lyrics","title":"Those Green Eyes","albumTitle":"The Avett Brothers","albumId":187257,"lyrics":"Those green eyes, that black hair\nMade me a sucker, standing there\nAt the remains of a high school football game\nAnd it don't do me any good to remember you\n\nIn a world of tuxedos and red sequins\nThe jealous girl said \"that's an ugly dress,\"\nBut that dress sure did the trick for me\nThe picture in my mind is never hard to see\n\nFire in the sky, fourth of July\nMy heart turned cold as I watched her cry\nIn her despair I nearly lost my mind\nIt's like we started over a hundred thousand times\n\nBut those green eyes, that pass me by\nI could not make her mine however hard I tried\nAnd I am lonely now, but I've got my memory\nThose green eyes and that black hair, they set me free"},{"id":101994,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-through-my-prayers-lyrics","title":"Through My Prayers","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nHard to believe I won't see you again\nWe were just fighting when winter began\nThe coldness of our words\nCompeting with the wind from the north\n\n[Bridge 1]\nStill they make me shiver\nBut in a very different way\nThe pages of the calendar kept turning away\nI have some better words now\nBut it's too late to say them to you\n\n[Verse 2]\nMy dream of all dreams\nAnd my hope of all hopes\nIs only to tell you and make sure you know\nHow much I love you and how much I always did\n\nAnd yes, I know you loved me\nI could see it in your eyes\nAnd it was in your struggle and it was in your mind\nAnd it was in the smile you gave me when I was a kid\n\n[Chorus]\nFeels like no one understands\nAnd now my only chance to talk to you is\nThrough my prayers\nI only wanted to tell you I cared\n\n[Bridge 2]\nEvery night after and every day since\nI found myself crying when the memory hits\nSometimes it knocks me down\nSometimes I can just put it away\nDown in my mind where I don't care to go\nThe pain of a lesson is letting me know\nIf you have love in your heart\nLet it show while you can\n\n[Chorus]\nYes now I understand\nBut now my only chance to talk to you is\nThrough my prayers\nI only wanted to tell you I cared\nI only wanted to tell you I cared"},{"id":834113,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-tin-man-lyrics","title":"Tin Man","albumTitle":"I and Love and You","albumId":15100,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nYou can't be like me\nBut be happy that you can't\nI see pain but I don't feel it\nI am like the old tin man\nI'm as worn as a stone\nI keep it steady as I can\nI see pain but I don't feel it\nI am like the old tin man\n\n[Chorus]\nI miss it\nI miss it\nOh, I miss that feeling of feeling\n\n[Verse 2]\nI used to fill the sky around\nWith happiness and joy\nI had news to give the wind\nTo keep myself and heart employed\nI felt people move around me\nI felt loneliness and shame\nBack then every day was different\nNow each moment is the same\n\n[Chorus]\nI miss it\nI miss it\nOh, I miss that feeling of feeling\nI miss it\nI miss it\nOh, I miss that feeling of feeling\n\n[Bridge]\nThe feeling of feeling\nThe wind upon my face\nAnd caring what it brings this way\nThe feeling of feeling\nThe minutes pass away\nAnd caring what I do with them\nMaybe bring me love or something else\n\n[Verse 3]\nAnd so it goes a man grows cold\nSome would say a man grows strong\nThey say life only grows short\nI say the road only grows long\nBut as long as there's a road\nMy feet will never touch the ground\nAnd if you won't give my heart back\nI've no need to stick around\n\n[Chorus]\nI miss it\nI miss it\nOh, I miss that feeling of feeling\nI miss it\nI miss it\nOh, I miss that feeling of feeling"},{"id":2468080,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-true-sadness-lyrics","title":"True Sadness","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nYou were a friend to me when my wheels were off the tracks\nAnd though you say there is no need\nI intend to pay you back\nWhen my mind was turning loose and all my thoughts were turning black\nYou shined a light on me\nAnd I intend to pay you back\n\n[Chorus]\nBut I still wake up, shaken by dreams\nAnd I hate to say it, but the way it seems\nIs that no one is fine\nTake the time, to peel a few layers\nAnd you will find\nTrue sadness\n\n[Verse 2]\nWhen I was a child I depended on a bottle\nFull grown I've been known to lean on a bottle\nBut you're the real deal in a world of imposters\nAnd I've seen the program make men out of monsters\n\n[Chorus]\nCause I still wake up, shaken by dreams\nAnd I hate to say it, but the way it seems\nIs that no one is fine\nTake the time, to peel a few layers\nAnd you will find\nTrue sadness\n\n[Bridge]\nAngela become a target\nAs soon as her beauty was seen\nBy young men who tried to reduce her down\nTo a scene on a x-rated screen\nIs she not more than the curve of her hips?\nIs she not more than the shine on her lips?\nDoes she not dream to sing and to live and to dance down her own path\nWithout being torn apart?\nDoes she not have a heart?\n\n[Verse 3]\nI cannot go on with this evil inside me\nI step out my front door and I feel it surround me\nJust know the kingdom of God is within you\nEven though the battle is bound to continue\n\n[Chorus]\nCause I still wake up, shaken by dreams\nAnd I hate to say it, but the way it seems\nIs that no one is fine\nTake the time, to peel a few layers\nAnd you will find\nTrue sadness\nTrue sadness\nTrue, true sadness"},{"id":5726202,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-untitled-4-lyrics","title":"Untitled #4","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"[Intro]\nOne, two\nOne, two, three\n\n[Verse 1]\nI don't need another collar\nI don't need another hat\nI don't need to leave this small town\nIt don't matter where I'm at\n\n[Chorus]\n'Cause I'm happy being me the most\nWhen I let what makes me happy go\nAnd I finally learn what I need to know\nI am happier with nothing\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nI am happier with nothing\nI am happier with nothing\n\n[Verse 2]\nI don't need you to come back to me\nI don't need another memory\nI don't need to make the world see that I'm not crazy\nI don't need to join in their games\nI don't need to fight to stake my claim\nI don't need the world to know my name\nIt never mattered if they did\n\n[Chorus]\n'Cause I'm happy being me the most\nWhen I let what makes me happy go\nAnd I finally learn what I need to know\nI am happier with nothing\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nI am happier with nothing\nI am happier with nothing\n\n[Bridge]\nAnd I'm always home\nAnd I'm always yours\nAnd I'll be alright with or without\nThe things that I've been searching for\nBaby, I'm not searching anymore\n\n[Verse 4]\nI don't need to be told what to do\nI don't need to be assured by you\nI don't need to pay the credit due\nNah, there is none\nI don't need you to come back to me\nI don't need another memory\nI don't need to make the world see that I'm not crazy\n\n[Chorus]\n'Cause I'm happy being me the most\nWhen I let what makes me happy go\nAnd I finally learn what I need to know\nI am happier with nothing\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nI am happier with nothing\nI am happier with nothing\nI am happier with nothing, nothing\nI am happier with nothing, nothing\n\n[Outro]\nI am happier with nothing, nothing\nNothing\nNothing, nothing\nNothing"},{"id":834072,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-vanity-lyrics","title":"Vanity","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"I've got something to say\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\nI found a tune I could play\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\n\nCall off the guards\nCall off the search\nTheir heads are chopped off\nThey're running in circles\nThey're running in circles\n\nI have a plan for the day\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\nI've got love pouring out of my veins\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\n\nCall off the guards\nCall off the search\nTheir heads are chopped off\nThey're running in circles\nThey're running in circles\nRunning in circles\nThey're running in circles\n\nI've got something to say\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\nI've got love pouring out of my veins\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity"},{"id":2062469,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-vanity-demo-lyrics","title":"Vanity - demo","albumTitle":"Magpie and the Dandelion","albumId":47696,"lyrics":"I've got something to say\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\nI found a tune I could play\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\n\nCall off the guards\nCall off the search\nTheir heads are chopped off\nThey're running in circles\nThey're running in circles\n\nI have a plan for the day\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\nI've got love pouring out of my veins\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\n\nCall off the guards\nCall off the search\nTheir heads are chopped off\nThey're running in circles\nThey're running in circles\nRunning in circles\nThey're running in circles\n\nI've got something to say\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity\nI've got love pouring out of my veins\nBut it's all vanity, it's all vanity"},{"id":2672722,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-victims-of-life-lyrics","title":"Victims of Life","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"Victims of cycles, victims of life\nVictims of wrong, victims of right\nVictims of anything, and all the above\nVictims of hate, victims of love\nVictims of hate, victims of love\n\nIf you're rich, you hunger for money\nIf you're broke, you hunger for bread\nIf you're wild, you're bound to die, young friend\nIf you live in fear, you're already dead\n\nVictims of cycles, victims of life\nVictims of wrong, victims of right\nVictims of winning, victims of loss\nVictims of payment, victims of cost\n\nYou got the victims of violence, victims of peace\nYou were all victims, exactly like me\nVictims of anything, and all the above\nVictims of hate, victims of love\nVictims of hate, victims of love\n\nI sold Scott a shovel, mine's got two arms\nThey're digging a trench, right for my heart\nThey can't agree, except on one thing\nThey've gone too far now, they're too close to leave\n\nVictims of cycles, victims of life\nVictims of wrong, victims of right\nVictims of anything, and all the above\nVictims of hate, victims of love\nVictims of anything, and all the above\nVictims of hate, victims of love\nVictims of hate, victims of love"},{"id":5726182,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-victory-lyrics","title":"Victory","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI don't write 'cause I don't think\nI don't have a need to speak\nI don't see the bright side, quite as clear\nAccolades and happy days\nThey don't ever last\nStories of courage clouded up with fear\n\n[Chorus]\nIn the broom grass I would l lie\nGlimmer in my eye, the sun smiled back on me\nFrom Victory, I tried\nTo match eternal light with how I lead my life\nOf course, I was forced to retreat\nFrom victory I accept defeat\n\n[Verse 2]\nWaxy green and yellow walls\nOutside my windows fall\nCovering the light I thought I'd see\nAm I sad or am I sick?\nWhat's at the root of it?\nDo I throw my hands and quit?\nSomething tells me no\n\n[Chorus]\nIn the broom grass I would l lie\nGlimmer in my eye, the sun smiled back on me\nFrom victory, I tried\nTo match eternal light with how I lead my life\nOf course, I was forced to retreat\nFrom victory I accept defeat\n\n[Bridge]\nWorries on all sides of my mind\nIn silence, my darkness is denied\n\n[Chorus]\nIn the broom grass I would l lie\nGlimmer in my eye, the sun smiled back on me\nFrom victory, I tried\nTo match eternal light with how I lead my life\nOf course, I was forced to retreat\nFrom victory I accept defeat\nFrom victory I accept defeat"},{"id":832907,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-walking-for-you-lyrics","title":"Walking for You","albumTitle":"A Carolina Jubilee","albumId":252612,"lyrics":"Ain't got no money\nBut I've got time\nI don't care about the sunshine\nBut I love to see you smile\n\nSo you say you're lonesome\nBaby dry your eyes\nWell there's a road to your door step\nI'll be there by morning's light\n\nBut I don't have an answer\nFor when you ask me why\nI know I love you baby like I know I never ever\nGonna let you ever say goodbye\nSay goodbye, Say goodbye\n\nI've got an old Ford pickup truck\nI got a Cadillac\nAnd I don't care how I get there\nTransportation can't hold me back\n\nBut I don't have an answer\nFor when you ask me why\nI know I love you baby like I know I never ever\nGonna let you ever say goodbye\nSay goodbye, Say goodbye\n\nCause I've had bad lovers, yeah\nThat walked to my back door\nI've wasted years walkin' for them gals\nThat's how I know you're worth walking for\n\nSo you say you're so in love\nWell baby so am I\nAnd I don't care if I'm on the road\nI am always by your side\n\nBut I don't have an answer\nWhen you ask me why\nI know I love you baby like I know I never ever\nGonna let you ever say goodbye\nSay goodbye, Say goodbye"},{"id":4918096,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-we-americans-lyrics","title":"We Americans","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nI grew up with reverence for the red, white, and blue\nSpoke of God and liberty, reciting the pledge of allegiance\nLearned love of country from my own family\nSome shivered and prayed approaching the beaches of Normandy\nThe flag waves high and that's how it should be\nSo many lives given and taken in the name of freedom\nBut the story's complicated and hard to read\nPages of the book obscured or torn out completely\n\n[Chorus]\nI am a son of uncle Sam\nAnd I struggle to understand the good and evil\nBut I'm doing the best I can\nIn a place built on stolen land with stolen people\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nBlood in the soil with the cotton and tobacco\nBlood in the soil with the cotton and tobacco\nBlood in the soil with the cotton and tobacco\n\n[Verse 2]\nA misnamed people and a kidnapped race\nLaws may change, but we can't erase the scars of a nation\nOf children devalued and disavowed\nDisplaced by greed and the arrogance of manifest destiny\nShort-sighted to say it was a long time ago\nNot even two life times have passed since the days of Lincoln\nThe sins of Andrew Jackson, the shame of Jim crow\nAnd time moves slow when the tragedies are beyond description\n\n[Chorus]\nI am a son of uncle Sam\nAnd I struggle to understand the good and evil\nBut I'm doing the best I can\nIn a place built on stolen land with stolen people\nWe are more than the sum of our parts\nAll these broken homes and broken hearts\nGod, will you keep us wherever we go?\nWill you forgive us for where we've been?\nWe Americans\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nBlood on the table with the coffee and the sugar\nBlood on the table with the coffee and the sugar\nBlood on the table with the coffee and the sugar\n\n[Verse 3]\nI've been to every state and seen shore to shore\nThe still open wounds of the Civil War\nWatched blind hatred bounce back and forth\nSeen vile prejudice both in the south and the north\nAnd accountability is hard to impose\nOn ghosts of ancestors haunting the halls of our conscience\nBut the path of grace and goodwill is still here\nFor those of us who may be considered among the living\n\n[Chorus]\nI am a son of God and man\nAnd I may never understand the good and evil\nBut I dearly love this land\nBecause of and in spite of We The People\nWe are more than the sum of our parts\nAll these broken bones and broken hearts\nGod, will you keep us wherever we go?\nCan you forgive us for where we've been?\nWe Americans\nWe Americans\n\n[Post-Chorus]\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory\nLove in our hearts with the pain and the memory"},{"id":174204,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-when-i-drink-lyrics","title":"When I Drink","albumTitle":"The Gleam","albumId":36699,"lyrics":"When I drink\nI say things I don't want to say\nI do things I don't wanna do\nI talk mean to you\nBut if I think\nI just might get something out of this\nMy parents taught me to learn when I miss\nJust do your best\nJust do your best\n\nIt's the only way to keep that last bit of sanity\nMaybe I don't have to be good but I can try to be\nAt least a little better than I've been so far\n\nBut when I drink\nI hear things that aren't really there\nI feel things when I shouldn't really care\nHave fist fights with the air\nBut if I think about someone besides myself\nI lived through the silver and the bell\nWith something to tell\nJust do your best\n\nIt's the only way to keep that last bit of sanity\nMaybe I don't have to be good but I can try to be\nAt least a little better than I've been so far\n\nBut when I drink\nI spend the next morning in a haze\nBut we only get so many days\nNow I have one less\nJust do your best\n\nIt's the only way to keep that last bit of sanity\nMaybe I don't have to be good but I can try to be\nAt least a little better than I've been so far\nOh, at least a little better than I've been so far"},{"id":4918098,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-when-you-learn-lyrics","title":"When You Learn","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nThere is no mountain you can climb\nHigh enough to see past\nThe fact you climbed it all alone\nThere is no city filled with lights\nSo bright that you forget\nYou have never had a home\n\n[Chorus]\nI gave the world my best, brought back to you the rest\nAnd in return, you loved me more\nHow do I return all that I took from you\nAnd all the life you gave to me?\nWhen you learn you can earn\nThe love you're waiting for, it's already yours\n\n[Verse 2]\nThere is no reason we should doubt\nThe broken hearts will rise again\nThe mending touch of something grand\nIsn't that what it's about?\nThe blind are charging through the night\nGuided by the steady hand\n\n[Chorus]\nI gave the world my best, brought back to you the rest\nAnd in return, you loved me more\nHow do I return all that I took from you\nAnd all the life you gave to me?\nWhen you learn you can earn\nThe love you're waiting for, it's already yours\n\n[Outro]\nWhen you learn you can earn\nThe love you're waiting for\nWhen you learn you can earn\nThe love you're waiting for"},{"id":4628371,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-who-will-i-hold-lyrics","title":"Who Will I Hold","albumTitle":"Closer Than Together","albumId":536720,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nYou slipped through my hands\nLike I did through my Dad's\nLike a river that passes\nThe rocks that it's on\nI'm bracing for loneliness\nI know it's comin'\nWho will I hold when you're gone?\nNow who will I hold when you're gone?\n\n[Verse 1]\nNow happiness comes\nAnd it seems much like money\nPeople gather around it\nWhen it's gone, they go runnin'\nI'm trying to be here\nLift up to the now\nBut the past has to come\nPulls me back down\n\n[Chorus]\nYou slipped through my hands\nLike I did through my lover's\nLike a river that passes\nThe bed that it's on\nI'm bracing for loneliness\nI know it's comin'\nWho will I hold when you're gone?\nNow who will I hold when you're gone?\n\n[Verse 2]\nNow, the victims of love\nThe most hopeless of all\nFortunate prisoners\nIn an infinite war\nThey turn on themselves\nIt's pure sabotage\nSilver spoon babies with Tupperware hearts\nSilver spoon babies with Tupperware hearts\n\n[Chorus]\nYou slipped through my hands\nLike I did through my mama's\nLike a river that passes\nThe rocks that it's on\nI'm bracing for loneliness\nI know it's comin'\nWho will I hold when you're gone?\nNow who will I hold when you're gone?\nWho will I hold when you're gone?\nNow who will I hold when you're gone?"},{"id":833646,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-will-you-return-lyrics","title":"Will You Return?","albumTitle":"Emotionalism","albumId":61807,"lyrics":"I open my door and here's what occurs\nA pretty little gal with pretty little curls\nLeans to the side, leans on my mind\n\nI don't want to live, but I sure don't want to die\nI'm stuttering again and tellin' her goodbye\nOh m-m-my, Goodb-b-bye\n\nWill you come again? It's hard to say\nI surely hope so\nWill you come again? It's hard to say\nI surely hope so\n\nShe walks up to me with something more to say\nThen hello and goodbye I hope that you're okay\nWell I'm doing fine… I'm doing fine\n\nWill you come again? It's hard to say\nI surely hope so\nWill you come again? It's hard to say\nI surely hope so\n\nI wish you'd see yourself as beautiful as I see you\nWhy can't you see yourself as beautiful as I see you?\n\nI open my door and this is what I see\nThe hope inside a girl just looking back at me\nOhh my… Goodbye\n\nWill you come again? It's hard to say\nI surely hope so\nAnd will you come again? It's hard to say\nI surely hope so"},{"id":90818,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-winter-in-my-heart-lyrics","title":"Winter In My Heart","albumTitle":"The Carpenter","albumId":22153,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nIt must be winter in my heart\nThere's nothing warm in there at all\nI missed the summer and the spring\nThe floating yellow leaves of fall\n\n[Verse 1]\nA million colors fill my eyes\nThe roman candles and the stars\nThe calendar says July 4\nBut it's still winter in my heart\nThey say flowers bloom in spring\nRed and golden, blue and pink\nThey say seasons turn in time\nTheirs are changing, why won't mine?\n\n[Chorus]\nIt must be winter in my heart\nThere's nothing warm in there at all\nI miss the summer and the spring\nThe floating yellow leaves of fall\n\n[Verse 2]\nThe air in there is frigid cold\nI don't know what the reasons are\nThe calendar says August 1\nBut it's still winter in my heart\nThey say flowers bloom in spring\nRed and golden, blue and pink\nThey say seasons turn in time\nTheirs are changing, why won't mine?\n\n[Chorus]\nIt must be winter in my heart\nI don't know what the reasons are\nIt must be winter in my heart"},{"id":5726201,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-women-like-you-lyrics","title":"Women Like You","albumTitle":"The Third Gleam","albumId":652640,"lyrics":"[Chorus]\nI thought they didn't make women like you anymore\nKindness in spades, patience galore\nElegant ways, but ready for war\nI thought they didn't make women like you anymore\n\n[Verse 1]\nYou're modest enough to not strut your stuff\nBut confident enough to know ya got it\nYou don't need someone's validations\nCouldn't care less who's offering\n\n[Chorus]\nI thought they didn't make women like you anymore\nAll of these princesses are such a bore\nYou're a queen and you're the girl next door\nI thought they didn't make women like you anymore\n\n[Verse 2]\nYou have the perseverance and follow through\nTo build your career if you choose\nYou understand compromise, jealousy too\nTaught me about blessings and baby blues\n\n[Bridge]\nOh, until I met you, I searched this place\nFor someone with class, conviction, and grace\nI thought it impossible, it couldn't be discovered\nLike a car full of pretty girls that don't hate each other\n\n[Verse 3]\nYou know how men think, we rarely move past\nAppraising a woman's appearance\nWell, judge as we may, we dig our own graves\nStill, I think it's alright to say this\nOh, you look good in a T-shirt, All Stars, and jeans\nLook good all done up in makeup and bling\nLook good in pajamas and sharp tailored suits\nLook good in dresses and cowboy boots\n\n[Chorus]\nI thought they didn't make women like you anymore\nPassion for days, compassion galore\nI am amazed and grateful to\nGod and your mother for women like you\n\n[Outro]\nYou, you\nYou\nMmm"},{"id":174205,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-yardsale-lyrics","title":"Yardsale","albumTitle":"The Gleam","albumId":36699,"lyrics":"I wonder if this blade ran through someone's side\nThe blood wiped away to hide\nHow evil you grandfather was 'fore he died\nBut war can make monsters out of us all\nI'm sure I'd become one if I was called\nAnd then it would be my blade\nHere at this yardsale\n\nThe guitar I am holding is way out of tune\nThe neck it is warped and the saddle is through\nI wonder if sweet music ever was played\nFrom the hands of a boy to a girl in the shade\nFrom this rickety ghost of a song\nHere at this yardsale\n\nA dollar for anything here on this quilt\nA price tag for hands from which all things are built\nA blanket of voices speak pleasure in shame\nFlowers of plastic and fruit of the same\nA basket of nothing at all\nHere at this yardsale\n\nSo if I had the money I'd buy everything\nAnd cover the whole lot with good gasoline\nAnd burn it for all that I care for the past\nAnd rid mother earth of what never should last\nAnd give her the present of ash\nMade of a yardsale"},{"id":2672009,"url":"https://genius.com/The-avett-brothers-you-are-mine-lyrics","title":"You Are Mine","albumTitle":"True Sadness","albumId":148965,"lyrics":"[Verse 1]\nYou are mine\nThe edge I need when I am out of line\nThe air I breathe when I believe I'm dying\nI guess you are there\n\n[Verse 2]\nIt is told\nWith age, our hearts are destined to grow cold\nWell I won't argue that, but this I know\nThe snow won't fall on me\n\n[Chorus]\nLife goes, yes, I guess it's true\nWhy close down? We'll follow soon\nWhere we are is not so far from where we're gonna be\nYou and me\n\n[Verse 3]\nOur life is a heel\nWith danger in our hearts, the roads are filled\nWith shadows deep as dark, girl grip your wheel\nPush your moment through\nCome on\n\n[Chorus]\nLife goes, yes, I guess it's true\nWhy close down? We'll follow soon\nWhere we are is not so far from where we're gonna be\nYou and me\nYou and me\n\n[Bridge]\nYou are mine\nThe first to kiss, the last to say goodbye\nThe answer to the question: who do I owe my everything?\n\n[Chorus]\nLife goes, yes, I guess it's true\nWhy close down? We'll follow soon\nWhere we are is not so far from where we're gonna be\nYou and me\nYou and me"}]