From forthcoming new album CARRIE & LOWELL
Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

LYRICS:
Now that I fell into your arms
My only lover
Give out to give in
I search for the capsule I lost

Drag me to hell
In the valley of The Dalles
Like my mother
Give wings to a stone
It’s only the shadow of a cross

I slept on my back 
In the shade of the meadowlark 
Like a champion
Get drunk to get laid
I take one more hit when you depart

I’ll drive that stake through the center of my heart
Lonely vampire
Inhaling its fire
I’m chasing the dragon too far

There’s blood on that blade
Fuck me, I’m falling apart
My assassin
Like Casper the ghost 
There’s no shade in the shadow of the cross

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Sufjan Stevens, "No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross"

I walked through your front door
having stopped hoping for
handsome men doing me any good
but in the back yard drinking canned PBR
wearing pale denim blue there you stood

we talked ourselves out of breath
you quoted from love and death
it got cold and we went to a bar
it was divey and dead 
and I kissed you and said
I just want to be where you are
  
how I had complained that day walking up manhattan avenue
thought it was too far away, only went because I’d promised to 

it was you
it was me it was all we could be 
it was spring in new york

all was new
we both knew
this was it 
this was what we had been waiting for

and nothing had ever been as simple and hard to endure
cause life was burning inside me like never before

had our next date in a bar, it was café noir
you remember my hat to this day
then to Pravda where you had been working before
where they filled us up with champagne

and I lost all my fear when you played with my ear
watching down by law at your place
then I knew you were mine and I had to define
falling in love once again

the sun disappeared and my dress was too cold for going out to eat
so I put on your jeans and a white polo shirt and we walked down the street

it was you
it was me it was all we could be 
it was spring in new york

all was new
we both knew
this was it  
this was what we had been waiting for

and nothing had ever been as simple and hard to endure
cause life was burning inside me like never before

sat on the bus all the way to Red Hook for an eternity
and we had lunch at Hope and Anchor Diner on Van Brunt street
we went to Dumbo and walked on cobble stones and under bridges, and all the while we were talking and talking, talking and talking

it was you
it was me it was all we could be 
it was spring in new york

all was new
we both knew
this was it 
this was what we had been waiting for

and nothing had ever been as simple and hard to endure
cause life was burning inside me like never before



New York

and we longed to get out
out of our skins and bounds
and there was a city we wanted to fill
with our sounds

and those who knew always turned 
 out to be something more than a friend
cause we had found something precious
we never wanted to end 

come out come out come out
can you here the streets shout
lost in a now that just won’t stop burning inside 
and let’s stay in this moment wherever it takes us tonight
just as brimming with life
as when we first got out

and now here we are
dancing and drowning our fears
’cause  in the darkness of midnight
no-one’s counting the years

yes here we are in a city so pretty that 
everyone always remains
that is too hard to let go of
that keeps on calling our names

come out come out come out
can you here the streets shout
lost in a now that is burning forever inside
and let’s stay in this moment wherever it takes us tonight
until the morning
comes spitting us out


New York

Karin Ström

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