signs of life

A folk/synth cover of Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains" off their album "The Suburbs." When the Arcade Fire version of this song comes on while I'm driving, I find myself screaming the lyrics at the top of my lungs within 20 seconds or so.  A great song. This doesn't do it justice I'm sure.

Enjoy.

Arcade Fire's "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" [cover]

Western Wind

And then
all at once
I’m a stranger to you

But what
is the same
what carries through

These days
on the run
falling away

The light
it is short
Love what you may

Days On The Run

LYRICS

Wake up, sleeper
Blue-eyed boy under the weather all the time.
Cotton and feather, wandering eyes,
both of your brothers can hear your cry in the night.

Call me a coward, because I had not climbed the wall when I could.
Slip under covers, soft and sad -
Maybe you'd love if I would have at least made a try.

---

Watch it grow above our heads,
leaves of silk, fruits stained red.
We woke up in the eaves
and in sleep we often dream of it, of it.

When I watched them rip you out
of the ground where you grew,
I'm sure I could not displace 
your shade with any further bloom

I knew.
I grew.
I knew.
I grew.



Blue-Eyed Boy/ Fig Tree

LYRICS 

I was enchanted, I was lost.
In a though my mind dismayed:
that it was best to cut the loss than wait
for the sun to dry the sea,
for the sea to steal the shore,
for a tattered sail to billow once more.

And the night we sat in wait
on the lake beneath the moon -
warm shivers and the Ghost, he moved.

He said "Solemn man, retire, leave your brother to his heart, and stop mending that old sail. Depart."

[The Refrain]

"The love of all will die (none to sing about)
The night He kissed my face (the night I kissed yours)
I was lost always (and enchanted by the)
star of evening long (the night I kissed yours)."

Tattered Sail

LYRICS 

Let me tell you, love is like spinning in the dark.
You drive stakes with your eyes, oh, I loathe that lovely Spark!
Filled to the brim with thoughts I shouldn't start,
you punch spikes with your mouth, I pull them up with my heart.

Thus begins the West and now I'll take to the road,
but the highways are all choked with what I used to call home.
"Fabled History," the salt and sea, they swallowed up the loam 
and in the absence of yourself, what is left to grow?

Stare at my mouth from across this united land
and imagine lips like oars that dive and pull to no end.
If my soul was still alive, could you bisect it and append?
If my corpse was somewhat warm, could you revive it once again?

[The Refrain]

Love, I can't! Love, I can't!
So just leave me here to die.
(No, I won't! No, I won't!
No, not while I'm still alive!)

So, take both of my hands and please draw them round your sides.
(So collapse both our hearts into one or else I'll die.)

Love, I can't! Love, I can't!
So just leave me here to die.
(No, I won't! No, I won't!
No, I won't believe that lie!)

That the sun will go down in an icy cold demise.
(So collapse both our hearts into one or else I'll die.)



In Celebration of an Impending Marriage

LYRICS

I've been thinking about going alone to the top of the world to look down.
From such a height could I escape the depth of Your love, this thorny crown?
Thinking about leaving behind everything that I once called home 
to reunite with the Old Ways and to rewrite that old tome.

Thinking aloud thoughts of a child and now they don't seem so misled.
Half a drink more before we collapse into the warmth of this old bed.
Thinking about nothing at all, staring into the face of God.
If you exist, are you distraught that You don't exist in my thoughts?

---

Our wandering thoughts often elope and this is the thought that I most dread:
"When this Old Tree falls to the earth, another won't grow in its stead."
Thinking, but it's much too late to recollect all I know
about the earth, so I'll wait to once again arrive at home.

---

taylorcammack

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