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