by Laura Veirs on album Troubled By the Fire

I was walking through the snow When I saw a distant glow Of a farmhouse nestled down beneath the trees With a guitar on my back I thought it sure can't hurt to ask If I could stay the night And sing a

by Laura Veirs on album Troubled By the Fire

I survived the desperate toll dark depression takes I may not break even but babe I'll never break Golden coins and smiles no they cannot tip my scales 'cause this land, this love will never be for s

by Laura Veirs on album Troubled By the Fire

Struggling like a fly against the glass It's not clear why I can't blast Straight through Behind all the brightest smiles Twist the tortured, tortured souls who I'll never, never know Who I'll try an

by Laura Veirs on album The Triumphs & Travails of Orphan Mae

I'm falling off the barstool mama in this old ghost town saloon Where sunlight moves like sadness across the room Oh my sweet mama if you could only see me Now drunk as a skunk falling out of this run

by Laura Veirs on album Folk Against Fascism, Volume 1

Oh I'll twine with my mingles and raven black hair With the roses so red and the lilies so fair And the mirtles so bright with the emerald dew The pale and the leader whose eyes look like blue Oh I w

by Laura Veirs on album Saltbreakers

Serpent tails and flying fish sup up all the wishes that you sent to the stars Chinese dragons incandescent mirrors in the waves I want to put them in jars With my-y-y saltbreakers (ringing all the u

by Laura Veirs on album Saltbreakers

A strange July, storm came down From the north and pulled out the salt And it tore out the leaves From the pear tree and my canopy In the twigs and the bugs of sow I knew somehow I was free I held a

by Laura Veirs on album Saltbreakers

A handful of dream dust for my pirate He can hear the pPacific singing The sea meets the light in his salt water eyes Icy pictures of the water are captured in his frame The petals of night are unfol

by Laura Veirs on album Saltbreakers

I felt my vocal chords weakening I felt my concave thoughts I felt my voluntary blindness For staring straight into the sun The romantic air of your eye patch Called me across the room I clung there

by Laura Veirs on album Saltbreakers

Now the raging of the forest fires end And all the mammals fled I smell in the charred darkness A little green, a little red When you sing your song Your voice washed over the sea Glacial land of Bea

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

When you sing When you sing Stars fill up my eyes Galaxies Pour down my cheeks Galaxies Galaxies They flood the street Galaxies When we dance When we dance Eels and sea grass float on by I? m ten

by Laura Veirs on album Beneath the Surface Volume 1: A Bella Union Sampler

Birds were falling from the sky all leaves had turned to brown The heartless cold froze everything and took my poor red down Poor old red she's dead and gone her eyes I do remember at least i have th

by Laura Veirs on album Carbon Glacier

Clear as ice Oh, clear as ice Dripping down From a rock Spring will come And so will fall All my enemies have finally fled They? ve finally fled and gone Take your pick Oh, take your pick And dig in

by Laura Veirs on album Carbon Glacier

My wooden vibrating mouth Sing me your lover's song Come with me we'll head up north Where the rivers run icy and strong The empty theater is lying cold In the shadows of the past A church group ente

by Barbra Streisand on album Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

I've never been wrong But you're the only one I trust to Show me the way, I always hear your voice And in my dreams I hear you calling my name What is it about you? Some kind of light shines from you

by Laura Veirs on album Warp & Weft

Sadako is folding cranes The colors spills from the bed Golden paper fold one thousand Gods will grant a wish One mile from Misasa Bridge The arom bomb explodes She is blown out of the window She is

by Laura Veirs on album Warp & Weft

Dancing always brings joy, Dancing always brings joy, Tear after tear will fall from your boy, But dancing brings joy. Who is not a little worried, One or two dreams that they dug and buried, Sky tur

by Laura Veirs & Saltbreakers on album Don't Lose Yourself

I felt my vocal chords weakening I felt my concave thoughts I felt my voluntary blindness For staring straight into the sun The romantic air of your eye patch Called me across the room I clung there

by Laura Veirs on album Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home'

1, 2, 3, 4... Perhaps is the color of the sun cut flat and hovering the crossroads that I'm standing at Or maybe it's the weather or somethin' like that but mama you've been on my mind I don't mean

by Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers on album Saltbreakers

Now the raging of the forest fires end And all the mammals fled I smell in the charred darkness A little green, a little red When you sing your song Your voice washed over the sea Glacial land of bea