by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

I've been dying this whole evening Just to reach out for your hand And I've been trying to keep believing That I might ever understand Now the hour is getting late And the moon is sinking low You fin

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

Once I had a heart like a mean old hen Kept her locked up in a chicken wire pen Clucking at the walls, scratching at the ground Peck at anybody who would come around Then one day she didn't sing I li

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Have you asked the wildest bird to change his song? It's the only one he knows Have you tried to keep the river from the sea? Still that river flows If not for love, what are you for? We blow like we

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Would you meet me in the windy city If I come down from the sky? Would you take me to your fields of plenty With horizon in your eye? Let's take a ride across the rolling prairie Where the old ghost

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Long time, no sound, long years, waiting and waiting I hear it now, too loud, too strange to ignore I'll watch that road, my heart steady as a snare drum When you get here, I'm gonna meet you Like the

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

I love North Dakota 'Cause you have never been there And the days go on forever And the towns all look the same And I can ride the back roads And I can walk the main streets And show someone your pic

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Blue Adeline, blue Adeline I can see you lying awake with wonder I can see you running alive with hunger Blue Adeline, your face felt like mine Remember how we hung there above the hollow? Remember h

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

How can I carve your name in the trunk of a tree That'll be here long after we're gone? I can't even write it in the steam on the mirror And with nobody listening, not even myself It's as much as I ca

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Louie, all of the angels are facing outward Down here all of the stars look the same Lately I'm in the glare of a thousand glances Tell me, why are they staring so strange At a freediver Louie, you i

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Born a little soon, raised on too much moon Learned to get by on leave me alone Be the restless one, be the burning son Then you filled your hands with oleander and All the strippings of pride gone a

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

I'll move the air between us I'll touch you that way I'll make the waves crash on your shore I'll move the air between us You'll feel it even more, even more There's places in your mind Been working

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

The field grew wild all that buzzing summer We dozed a while, woke a little younger Hung your clothes, waited on the weather Thorn and rose twine and grow together When did all the birds of Belfast l

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Let it in and let it go You, falling like a lotus from my hand You, the only secret I can stand I let you in and I let you go Take me flying on your eagles wings Way way way up above the sting Let

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

Came to a land where the morning don't wait for the break of day Nighttime comes as a surprise Picked myself up, took myself far, far away Far away from a big hearted man who looks into my eyes, says

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

Every little wasted word and every little wasted smile And every little wasted year, every little wasted mile We're gonna leave them all right here Here we're gonna leave them all behind Every little

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

Oh river wide, older than time Hold us inside, don't go dry Dreamed, swam with you, ancient and new Woke up and knew it was true River's deep, the river's long and wide No one ever reach the other si

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

Today I went flying in my favorite patch of sky I circled and I circled above the world so high And I thought to myself, what a lovely lovely thing To be up here with the clouds To be flying right out

by Kris Delmhorst on album Shotgun Singer

I see you across the room Can't say hi, it's too soon Don't know why this doesn't fit I try and try, still I can't make it The world is wide, where's my corner? Somewhere to hide, somewhere to flow f

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

Gravity don't work on me The ground don't pull me down I can jump any thing I come to I do not need to come down Driving back from your house It's first gear all the way home Got my window wide, wide

by Kris Delmhorst on album Miscellaneous

You left here on your dirty feet But you're gonna come home on the train You left here on your shoe leather But you're gonna come home on the train You left here on your limousine But you're gonna c