I kept all the letters 
that you sent from home,
about the burnin' treetops 
and the swallows at dawn.
You wrote they flew so low,
you could catch them in your hand;
must be a hell of a storm comin',
there's gonna be rain.

I met a girl here,
you would've liked her, I'm sure.
When she smiles the heavens open,
I never want to close that door.
And I bought a diamond ring
for her pearl white fingers.
I'm gonna ask her to marry me, 
when the roses start to bloom.

All the letters from home (demo)

Don't This Look Like The Dark (Magnolia Electric Co.)

She said 'You have an old soul waiting
for the lines on your face just to catch up with it.'
I said I'm pretty sure that you got it wrong,
I'm just tired of the road, I'm tired as hell.
I'm tired of the road, tired of love as well.
'Cause these seedy bars sure ain't makin' me happy,
but at least they have enough medicine to last,
until I muster enough drunken courage
to dial your number in the faint barlight.
'I have no place to go, can I spend the night?'

'Darlin' you're the leavin' kind,
so why can't I get you off my mind?
You only bring trouble, 
you only cause pain,
Darlin', I know your leavin' kind.'

She said 'I love the shit you do to make me laugh,
I could spend the whole day just lyin' here.'
I said that's how I fill the awkward silence
when I feel you're gonna name me with the things you miss.
Leave that for tommorow, give me a kiss.
Don't you ever wonder what this thing would look like,
this thing that we've got going on
if we were younger and we were bolder,
and not the broken messes that we are now.
Love's not late night calls when time will allow.

Leavin' Kind (demo)

If tonight is all that we have,
these few hours 'till the dawn...
If tonight is all we've got,
hold me close, my darlin'.

What will it take to keep you near me?
Winter's coming and the cold.
I don't have much, oh to my name,
what I have I've drunk or sold.

I can offer you a good life -
not like them rich folks we saw before,
but I swear upon this ol' heart
ain't nobody gonna love you more.

If tonight is all that we have,
these few hours 'till the dawn...
If tonight is all we've got,
hold me close, my darlin'.

'Sometimes you're just done with a place,
you know full well, you're a rambler too.
And I would've already split,
but I have my doubts, now that I met you.

'Cause a good man is hard to find
one that's honest, harder still.
They always said that they would love me,
oh they said they always will.'

If tonight is all that we have,
these few hours 'till the dawn...
If tonight is all we've got,
hold me close, my darlin'.

This joint is closin', oh to hell with it,
there's still streets to be danced upon.
I will twirl you on the sidewalk,
I'll dance alone when you are gone.

'Promises are made to be broken,
I won't make no more, you'll see.
Let this darkness last forever,
if the light takes you from me.'

Elephant and the Moon - If Tonight (live demo)

One day I will wake up feeling old in a room that smells of memory,
don't let me dine alone that night, at the table, love, with Misery.
I left your things untouched and the dust has swallowed all,
my photographs may be half faded, but i can still recall:
the footprints that you cast into the hot, white sand;
you cut your heart with regrets and knew it wouldn't mend.
I kept my shit together and I always played it cool...
But call me, baby, if you need a fool.

I hardly have the money to keep this house from disrepair,
but what if you come back to find a stranger's living there?
Whispering kind words to his lover on the porch where we once sat,
though a house is not a home, I remember you told me that.
I wait for you each day near the summer twilight,
I know you won't be coming back, but I still hope you might:
sadness is the messenger and fondness is his tool...
Please call me, baby, if you need a fool.

One day I'll wake up feeling sad in a room that still smells of you,
shaken from a dream in which you felt exactly like I do.
Yes, I thought of running, but wherever could I go?
Wishing you were closer couldn't ever make it so.
You said 'if I stay here, I know that I will wilt;
a ship in a harbour's safe, but that's not why ships are built.'
I'll swallow all this longing and I will play it cool...
Yet, call me baby, if you need a fool.


(Call Me, Baby) If You Need A Fool

Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it seem like stars...

Jacksonville Skyline (Whiskeytown cover)

The first time that I met her, she wore a little cross around her neck.
She said she wasn't big on god, but you need someone to watch your back.
I said it's alright, I'm not looking for salvation, yeah, I think I'm way past that.
But I sure could use some company tonight, about two drinks more and I'll need a friend.

I read enough books about drifters, she says, to know that I'm becoming one.
I wish I could remember what the hell it was that I was running from. 
Sure, I had my fair share of misery and boys who would raise their hands on me.
And I left some good people behind to chase after the ghosts of things that I will never be.

I hope you got it made, I hope you made it safe...
Wherever you're going, Little Bird.

'Cause man, it gets pretty lonely out here in the arms of the Great Unknown.
Some days I survive on beer and cigarettes and wonder why I can see my bones.
All these one night stands got me feelin' pretty tired and I wasn't even standing much.
There's times when I think my mama was right: livin' outta suitcase, well, it ain't no kind of life.

I tried a couple places on for size lately, but I always got restless.
So I stopped countin' all those towns rolling past me in the rearview.
I guess it's just the fate of the leaving kind to travel light with a worried mind,
man, don't you really wish sometimes there was someone you could call in the dead of night?

I hope you got it made, I hope you made it safe...
Wherever you're going, Little Bird.

Maybe I was just born with wings too small and that's why I still haven't flown?
Maybe the ripped out pages of those motel bibles held some truth I haven't learned on my own.
Maybe all things have a happy ending and we all get just what we deserve?
Or maybe all our stories have been written down and we just get to observe.
Well, even if the only comfort to be found is in these sad songs and these faded blue jeans,
I still think about you sometimes. 
That's why I always smile when I think of New Orleans.

Elephant and the Moon - Little Bird (demo)

Petar Vranić is a musician from Zagreb, Croatia, playing sad songs for dirty lovers.

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