Losses Lyrics

Lyrics and Music by Shaun Carrier - Guitar/Vocals

Music by Jamie Carrier - Violin/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - tenor guitar, piano, organ, bass pedals

Ray Rizzo- drums and percussion

Spent some years of my life

Chasing the ghost of your taillights

Tell me now, how did you try

To think of ways to say "I'm leaving"

But it never was so black and white

You stuck around past Christmastime

Just long enough to build a lie

That we could all believe in

I can still smell the cold on your coat

Old Spice and cigarette smoke

The shape you made in the door

As the night swallowed you whole

Later on I had a dream

That God had made a name for me

I thought "well that could never be"

Besides I never did believe in fairy tales anyway

But sometimes I still can feel

The way I pressed you to my cheek

In the silence I believe

There may be forgiveness

I can still smell the cold on your coat

Old Spice and cigarette smoke

The shape you made in the door

As the night swallowed you whole

I still find you living here

In the quiet with my fear

A little better every year

Every year I'm trying

And I watch my babies grow

Summer sun and winter cold

And I try always to show the love that is surviving

The love that is surviving

Words and Music by Jamie Carrier -Acoustic Guitar and Vocals

Music By Shaun Carrier - Electric Guitar/Harmonies

JK - bass, electric guitar, piano, wurlitzer,

Ray - drums and percussion

I wish that I could say I have no enemies

But that's a lie

I wish that I could say that I succeed at everything I try

I wish that I could say that I could look the face of Love

Straight in the eye

And say I'd done my best

That I'd always done my best

But I waste time crying, feeling sorry for myself

Til I can't breathe

Stay up nights thinking about all that I've done wrong

Til I can't sleep

I know one day it'll all go the way of all flesh

And I'll be free

In the meantime, I forgive you

But I don't know how to move

Maybe there's a little bit of longing

In every song I love

For the world to be not what it is,

But like the world I dream of

Where innocence is sacred

And people try to build each other up

Every body has enough

Every one is loved

But I waste time crying feeling sorry for myself

Til I can't breathe

Stay up nights thinking about all that I've done wrong

Til I can't sleep

And I know one day it'll all go the way of all flesh

And I'll be free

In the meantime, I forgive you

But I don't know how to move

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know He's watching me

His eye is on the sparrow and so I know He's watching me

And it'll all go the way of all flesh and I'll be free

His eye is on the sparrow

So I know He's watching me

Music and Lyrics by Jamie Carrier-Acoustic Guitar/Vocals/Harmonies

Music by Shaun Carrier-Electric Guitar/Harmonies

JK - bass, organ, wurlitzer, piano,

Ray - drums and percussion

Stuart Bogie - woodwinds

Your ashes swirl around

In the field to the South of the house

The rocks that you carefully found

Have buried their way right back into the ground

Built what you had by the work of your hands

Passed it along with a smile and a laugh

All that you've given's been broken in half

And the children you loved

Scattered like chaff

Over the mountains and onto the plains

You cradled your love like a renegade flame

Burning down fear and enticing the rain

To laugh and to dance as she joined in your game

Fire in your belly and fire in the dark

The world is made warmer wherever you are

All of those fires are started with sparks

And the babies are born with the Sun in their hearts

Trees that you planted in fullness of Spring

Gave shelter to neighbors and birds of the wing

Lovely as autumn the thoughts that you'd think

Lovelier still were the songs you'd sing

Ashes to ashes and dust back to dust

The time that we had doesn't seem like enough

The bones of your trees, now they sigh and they crack

Under weight of the feet that may never come back

Music and Lyrics by Shaun Carrier - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals

Music by Jamie Carrier - Violin/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - bass, piano, electric guitar, organ

Ray - drums and percussion

The air was still

Blood in the water

Forgot the breach,

Forgot the fray

Forgot the night

Death in busted armor

When he called out and turned away

Yeah the sun was casting shadows

Spreading out like stains

Down on that muddy avenue

Down on that gutted plain

Heat from the horses mouths

And the teeth of the hounds that bay

Shots ringing out from my pistol

As the ground filled up with rain

They cut me down where the Breaklands get heavy

With Spanish bayonet and crooked sage

They strung me up neath the stars and they left me

Without a breath left to pray

So cut loose this rope from my throat

Cut loose my hands from these chains

Send home my soul to my mother

Leave my bones for the ravens

That I might fly

I might fly

I might fly

I might fly

Once as a boy I dreamed of dancing

As a ghost among the leaves

In the place where the sun couldn't catch me

In the place I first believed

Now the silence is all strung together

I swear it goes on for days

Here I sway as dim as a specter

And watch the wind wear me away

So cut loose this rope from my throat

Cut loose my hands from these chains

Send home my soul to my mother

Leave my bones for the ravens

That I might fly

I might fly

I might fly

I might fly

I might fly

I might fly

Music and Lyrics by Jamie Carrier - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals

Music by Shaun Carrier - Electric Guitar/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - spanish guitar, wurlitzer, farfisa organ, bass, bg vox

Ray - drums and percussion, bg vox

Gillian Pelkonen background vox

Dan Goodwin background vox

They buried my granddaddy outside the reservation parish

My mama wouldn't come

Cause of things he'd said when she got married

My uncle from the next town

Sang some songs, just a cappella

Begging the Creator to welcome him into his new dwelling

All that I could think of as that box went in the ground

Was when I could get a drink,

And how long my cousins would stick around

See I already know that I won't get much older

Than twenty-two, or three if I can't manage to get sober

My best friend wrapped his motorcycle clear around a tree

A month ago one night when we took methamphetamine

Two hundred years ago, white men came into this country

Bringing guns and whiskey and teaching the people about money

When money couldn't tempt 'em

They gave the children blankets

Killed em off with smallpox, and they expected us to thank them

I already know that I won't get much older

Than twenty-two, or three if I can't manage to get sober

My best friend never made it home from the hospital that night

So I get messed up each day so I can celebrate his life

If I never make it to that nameless, unmarked road

That's been the way to the next place for the souls that have gone before me

I hope they'll lay my bones down by this peaceful, kindly river

She'll wash away my sins

And she can offer me forgiveness

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

Written by Shaun Carrier - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals

Jamie Carrier- Violin/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - piano, bass, organ, bass pedals

There's a lock on your front door

That keeps me from knowing

Who you were, and who you are

Because you never showed me

All the color in your scars

The burns, the birthmarks, the busted teeth

On the west side of the river

Satellite and single wide

You were safe behind the curtains,

Warm behind the blinds

And now I'm diggin through the Junkmail

To see what I can find

I ain't sleepin much at night

Just listen to my heartbeat

And I am set upon by dreams

As mean as fire alarms

Really, sometimes I am crying

Sometimes I hold it down

Should I take your old jean jacket?

Should I put a record on?

Should I sleep out in your pickup?

Should I steal your guns,

The crucifixes, and dream catchers,

And everything you've done

We will lay you to rest the day the king died in Memphis

Medicine on your chest, just in case you get restless

Just in case you need some help

From one place to the next

Music and Lyrics by Shaun Carrier - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals

Music by Jamie Carrier - Violin/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - bass, piano, organ

Ray Rizzo- drums and percussion

At the crossing there I pass you

Coming in, I'm going out

Under arches of surrender as I leave behind my doubt

Never was there fury, like a fire to make me clean

You're just stained and you're just scared

And there is a remedy

And out there on the flatlands, you can see the stars

Like the sign of some strange angels in the night

Orien and Seven Sisters rise and fallin in their turn

Like we rise and fall, and live and die

And is it strange if you change?

Or stay the same?

Or just let it be?

And when you get to the gate

Do they holler out your name,

Or does the heartache and the pain make up the key?

Yes and solid as Polaris where we dangle by a thread

With the spinnin of these stones, with the static in my head

From what I've seen, there's only one thing that ain't changin

From what I've seen, there's only one thing that ain't changin

And is it strange if you change?

Or stay the same?

Or just let it be?

And when you get to the gate

Do they holler out your name

Or does the heartache and the shame make up the key?

And I'm praying "God

Shake off my dust and make me a believer

Cause I've been so low and lonesome all my life

I want to believe in your heaven

I want to go out and shoot the moon tonight

Cause it's drivin me crazy"

At the crossing there I pass you

Coming in I'm going out

Under arches of surrender as I leave behind my doubt

Never was there fury like a fire to make me clean

We're all stained, and we're all scared

And there is a remedy

Music and lyrics by Jamie Carrier - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals/Harmonies

Music by Shaun Carrier - Electric Guitar/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - bass, piano, organ, acoustic guitar

Ray Rizzo - drums and percussion

Moses, come on home now

The night is gone

The sky is bruised purple with mornin comin on

Even with your eyes closed

You can see the horizon

Call me in the night on my new phone

Ride my bike to get you and take you home

With your head on my shoulder

Singin songs on the backroads

I have tried with all my might

To be your flame, to be your fire

I've tried to be the voice on the radio

Put myself beside you while you played your piano

And your mouth made an "O"

I wrap myself around you while we sleep

But you're calling out for Molly in the middle of your dreams

And we play with the ways

To entangle bodies

Take you for a drive in my new car

Making love, or something, beneath the autumn stars

When I drop you at home I know

You don't love me

I have tried with all my might

To be your flame, to be your fire

I've tried to be the voice on the radio

Put myself beside you while you played your piano

And your mouth made and "O"

I can't be your Forever.

I can't even be your Now.

Take what I can from these moments

And throw the rest out

Music and Lyrics by Jamie Carrier - Vocals/Harmonies/Cello

Music by Shaun Carrier - Electric Guitar/Vocals/Harmonies

Composition by Josh Kaufman - bass, piano, organ, tenor guitar, slide guitar

Composition by Ray Rizzo - drums and percussion

Dan Goodwin/Ray Rizzo/Jamie and Shaun Carrier/Josh Kaufman/Gillian Pelkonen - claps

I am yours

Before I took my first breath

I heard your name pounded out in my Mother's chest

I loved it

The first time I saw a bird fly

Freedom

The way the sun paints its way into the night sky

Makin room for starlight,

Reflected back in moonshine

I knew you loved me too

I knew

And I got it tattooed on my body

"Beloved"

Beloved

And when the heavy threatened to drown me

I heard your voice singin in the breeze

"Peace, Peace"

And I believed and I learned how to breathe

But my lungs were ahead of me

My lungs already knew

And they called out to you

When I'm flying

Magnificent and wild and my feet don't touch the ground

When I'm crying alone in my car

Frightened as a child

Goin nowhere with the windows down

When I'm fighting back the poison

Keeping it inside so my words won't wound the one I love,

When I'm dissatisfied

When I'm holding my own

Rising with the wave that's gonna wash away the ugly stains

That sorrow made

I am yours, I am yours, Beloved

I am yours, I am yours Beloved

Beloved

Music and Lyrics by Shaun Carrier - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals

Music by Jamie Carrier - Violin/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - bass, piano, organ, electric guitar

Ray Rizzo - drums and percussion

Work my fingers to the bone

All it ever got me was lonely

I might've had you fooled

But I can't squeeze a drop from this stone

And I look in your eyes

How I hate you for it

Every beautiful word

Every beautiful note

Waste my time online checkin out the competition

Sometimes I wonder why

Why I even try at all

And the words don't come

And the feelings I don't recognize them

Just howl in my head to make someone feel somethin

I've been beating on this box of strings

All day and all evening

I'm comin up short, pullin back fistfuls of noise

And the years roll by like perpetual motion

Sometimes quickly, sometimes slow

The rain on the roof in the night

Like blood circulating

We rise and fall like the breath of the world

And the heat the pavement holds flows down into the gutters

I feel the cold start for my bones

I feel the cold start for my bones

Written by Jamie Carrier - Acoustic Guitar/Vocals

Shaun Carrier - Electric Guitar/Harmonies

Josh Kaufman - piano, bass, electric guitar, organ, drums and percussion

Your heart is a toolbox

Locked up in an empty shop

Only the wind howling for company

There's dust on the rafters

Thick dust on the floor

No one to disturb you here anymore

The body of a small mouse, just a skeleton

The ghosts of your machines

Auctioned off to strangers - they walked all over

But you never got

Anything

Don't believe the words spoken in anger

Don't believe the words written in love

Just listen to your own sad story

And keep the tools locked up

But there were stars

And there were songs

There were stars, there were songs

There were kisses in the moonlight underneath the summer sky

There were kisses in the moonlight underneath the summer sky

And there was love

There was love

There was love