Landscape of Animals: 3. Endeavour
We sail our ship along the coast Others try to beat us, but at most we'll be a day or two behind The leak is getting bigger, and supplies are running low, and the crew is getting tired. They work hard...
View ArticleLandscape of Animals: 5. Skeleton in Cupboard
Back at twelve no one's home Go to sleep on your feathers... Start to feel adventurous Take a walk down the street The ravine up ahead... Bullets in the legs; you cry for help, wishing you could say...
View ArticleLandscape of Animals: 2. The Big Dig
The man who drank a pot of coffee falls asleep The boy who set his mind and didn't make it thinks: What does it take? Have I done wrong? Move the barrows on the line and push them up the hills onto the...
View ArticleLandscape of Animals: 4. Time Traveling Blues
Get in the car we're going to Red Star Talk about that week we had in New York Maybe we'll find a new place right next door I've been told you just gotta get the hell out Out to sea the world's great...
View ArticleLandscape of Animals: 1. I Wanna Hold Your Otter Hand
He can't be more careful So care can't be the answer Once there was a flailing otter and he sailed Once there was a sailing otter and it gailed Once there was a trailing otter and he failed Once there...
View ArticleLandscape of Animals: 6. Landscape of Animals
It's hot in the sun and the pavement burns right through to the soles But where else can we go that's a home just for us? Walk to my friend's and it's minutes of silence and of cold But the moment we...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 9. Take on Another One
Take on another one. I don't know where to find him, know how to find him. I don't need to know.
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 8. An Old Song
An old song heard out on the ocean at sunrise, only for moment. The candles burn into the evening in your eyes, wild and then returning. There, standing by the window, looking out upon the world. Oh,...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 7. All Those
If all those who knew her should write something about her. This side is different, this other side is done. You can't quite repeat it. Teach me I'm listening. Learn without thinking. Oh, should I know...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 5. Healed Eyes
Black and white litter the floor leading up to the door and out onto the ice. We'll stop on the way at a warm place to stay. Wouldn't that be nice? And up with the sun we'll rise, and turning away from...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 4. The Prairies
Oh, what a night! Such a night for a fight. What a night to get kissed with a fist. They line up to watch you, and everyone's watching this shining example of all that they love. It's all that they...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 3. Run Home
She slipped in the snow, and he told her to empty her shoes. The looks on their faces, I guess that they thought I was bad news. She scrambled to get it all together for me, but I sent them on their...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 2. Auntie Anne
Her mind clouded over, all over. It's over. There was nothing to do but keep watching the news. When an airplane went down, they all drowned. Her boy had been on it. He must have been on it. He was...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 1. In Any Place
It's been months since he's been gone, but he hasn't bought a thing. How long 'till he leaves before he remembers anything? They brought themselves into his house and left what they could bring. What...
View ArticleSCOTLAND: 6. Breakfast and Tea
Sat down, waiting for me. I asked for some tea. I thought the morning would probably be silent except for the old you and me. In the car, hours before, I heard your voice in no time at all. The weekend...
View ArticleWhat Better Time Than Christmas
This track originally appeared on the Old Ugly compilation, "Another Old Ugly Christmas" which can be downloaded here: oldugly.bandcamp.com/album/another-old-ugly-christmas
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