by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Lake Swimming Lake swimming Shucking free our deadened selves Like snakes and corn do Our bodies tore off swimming suits And all the old notions The cold ocean far away Enter the sun Mar

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Where Gravity Is Dead Where gravity is dead And the airplanes fly around Above the roaming bees And the buzzing town Above the tattered flags And the rotten show posters Above the clubs a

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Rialto Check out the skylark Riding and singing alongside Salt cool breeze coming from the West Ships and their lawlessness Running wild and the waves Wearing their bright blue summer bes

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Magnetized Slain By your zirconium smile I was slain By your olivine eyes Slain I was lying in piles Hoping shovels would cast me Furnaces burn everlasting Black tattoos of you onto me Fu

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Fire Snakes Mermaids Shimmer in the waves Wanted to share a word Course they only waved Left me alone With the blood in my mouth To paw and to pray To tear at the fray for a thundercloud

by Laura Veirs on album duyster.II

LAURA VEIRS Spelunking The tiny midnight caravan Made its way across the black hills As I watched from a distance The slow-going glow Their wandering you know Made me pine For the lamplight Where you

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird Don't she warble as she flies She don't never holler coo coo Till the fourth of July Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird Don't I wish she was mi

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

This is the hammer that killed John Henry But it won't kill me No, it won't kill me No, it won't kill me Take this hammer and hand it to the captain And tell him I'm gone Won'

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

Freight train, freight train, run so fast Freight train, freight train, run so fast Please don't tell what train I'm on They won't know what route I've gone When I am dead and in

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

by Laura Veirs on album July Flame

It sure is hard to dance across The room when you've got One foot on the floor And one foot outside the door I want nothing more Than to dance with you The peace I've known, floating along The deep

by Laura Veirs on album Tumble Bee

Continental soldiers on a bivouac Were playin' stud poker in a mountain shack Every vigilante laid down his hand When the captain of the guard gave a sharp command So Jimmy get your fiddle out a

by Laura Veirs on album July Flame

Since you lay my burdens Since you lay my burdens Since you lay my burdens down All the troubles I've been Dragging down this trail Seep into the thirsty ground Since you turned your light Upon my da

by Laura Veirs on album July Flame

Down among the dead The wide-eyed and the legless, only half a head Half a mouth to laugh from the porthole Through the mold and faded epitaphs Will you ever more tie up my hair with velvet bows

by Laura Veirs on album July Flame

Honey wax, melt it down Make your heart molten somehow Turn the fields of stone to magma Swinging out on the breeze I hear you singing, you're coming home I can see you now Summer is the champion Le

by Laura Veirs on album Tumble Bee

Shadows slowly creeping Down the prairie trail Everything is sleeping Ah, but the nightingale Moon will soon be climbing In the purple sky Night winds all a-humming This tender lullaby Car

by Laura Veirs on album July Flame

She can really play it She can really lay it down 'Smile', 'Good Vibrations' 'Help Me Rhonda', 'Homeward Bound' It would be so cool To be like Carol, Carol Kaye Maybe I can meet her Maybe shake her h

by Laura Veirs on album July Flame

Oh, I can see your tracks but I won't follow them I'll just hope for rain Or some kind of crazy wind to erase them And chase them into oblivion Oh, I can smell the smoke from your fire, babe But I'll

by Laura Veirs on album Tumble Bee

Hush a bye, don't you cry Go to sleep you little baby When you awake, you will have cake And all the pretty little horses Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Black and ba

by Laura Veirs on album Tumble Bee

Why, oh why, oh why oh, why Why, oh why, oh why Because because because because Goodbye goodbye goodbye Why can't a bird eat an elephant Why, oh why, oh why 'Cause an elephant's got a pretty h