Playlist James Vincent Mcmorrow

james vincent mcmorrow - and if my heart should somehow stop

The wind changed, the first day that you came through
Cut the corn, washed it clean
Now everything thats ever gone before, is just a blur
It's all because of you
And now i find, this cities like a stranger to me
I once was fooled by cadillacs and honey
But no one feels like you
Not like you, not like you, not like you

Cause even though the flower fades
Something takes it's place
A marching band on a sunny day,
Two pretty eyes or a a pretty face

Then in the forest i made my home
Lay down on hard and ancient stone
Then if my heart should somehow stop
I'll hang on, to the hope
That you're not too late
That you're not too late

And there are times i know when i will have to chase you
The further from my side you go, the longing grows
And though i hate this, i'll still want you,
I will hate this, but i'll still want you

Even though the flower dies somethings by it's side
A helping hand or a kiss goodbye, to ease it on it's way

james vincent mcmorrow - breaking hearts

You can stop your crying, I'm never coming back
You can stop your crying, just walk down the tracks again
I just can't take the pressure, it's all too much for me
I just can't take the pressure, so please just let me be

See I've been, breaking hearts, for far too long
Loving you, for far too long,
Making plans now, for far too long
Yes I've been breaking hearts, for far too long
Loving you, for far too long,
It's time I leave, it's time I'm moving on

I'm gonna find a city, call the streets my own
I'm gonna find a city, drink until it's gone
The girls there, look so pretty, treat me oh so well
The girls there look so pretty, they're all just empty shells to me

See I've been, breaking hearts, for far too long
Loving you, for far too long,
Making plans now, for far too long
Yes I've been breaking hearts, for far too long
Loving you, for far too long,
It's time I leave, it's time I'm moving on

When I need the shelter, I'll know just who to call
When I need the shelter, I'll be knocking on your door
But when it comes to dying, I'll do it on my own
I've never been too clever, I've always just hung on

See I've been, breaking hearts, for far too long
Loving you, for far too long,
Making plans now, for far too long
Yes I've been breaking hearts, for far too long
Loving you, for far too long,
It's time I leave, it's time I'm moving on

james vincent mcmorrow - down the burning ropes

When the hills let go
Slowly fade into the water like some ancient lover
On a ship filled with ghosts
It's something to behold

When the paper thin girls
With twisting little braids in their hair,
They take off their coats and throw
Pebbles and stones from the side of the boat,
Crying out
The stones they float, the stones they float
Oh my God, the stones they float, the stones they float

Down the burning ropes
Past the places where the steal beams meet concrete skies
You make your bed under the moonlight
I think it's time we said goodbye

Cause nothing moves in the warm air
And words that once would cut like a knife,
They just hang in the cloud and you're
Pushed by the lord,
But you're pulled by the crowds and
You're overboard, you're overboard
Oh my God, she's overboard

My love she's overboard
She's overboard
My love she's overboard

There's not a shell unbroken
In the valley where my heartache and the timbers lay
It's not the time to be hanging around here
You know what some might say

That people get too reckless
That even with the simplest of crimes
They leave, blood behind,
As I clean the knife for the very last time
I think she knows, I think she knows
Oh my God, I think she knows
I think she knows

james vincent mcmorrow - early in the morning i ll come calling

Early in the morning I'll come calling
I'll come calling after you
Darling if you answer oh we'll wander
Down the garden where it's cool
Later we'd discover all in covers
Children silent as the stars
Early in the morning In the morning
Everything at once is ours

Early in the morning I'll come calling
I'll come calling after you
Though you seldom answer still I wonder
What will pass here when you do
Delicate in grasses bright and ashen
Breathing sweet a ruby nest
Early in the morning
In the morning, withered
Singing we will rest

Early in the morning In the morning
I will call for you
Even if the words aren't clear,
And even if my voice seems cruel
Early in the morning In the morning
Red and almost true

Dressing in my finest suit
My cleanest shoes
Making sure the crease is true
Pressed and fresh and blue

james vincent mcmorrow - follow you down to the red oak tree

Follow you down to the red oak tree
As the air moves thick through the hollow reeds
I will wait for you there until someone comes
To carry me, carry me down

See I have not I have not grown cold
I have stole from men who have stole from those
With their arms so thin and their skin so old
But you are young, you are young, you are young

Then somebody laughs like it's all just for hell
As though we could not be saved from the depth of the well
But the cloth that I make is a cloth you can sell
To pay for the gossamer seed

Names get carved in the red oak tree
Of the ones who stay and the ones who leave
I will wait for you there with these cindered bones
So follow me follow me down

Follow me follow me down

james vincent mcmorrow - from the woods

From the woods, from the woods
They are coming from the woods
Riding horses cloaked in gray
Make their way, to my door
Lay their boots upon my floor
Wash their hands and start to pray
But I am gone, I am not there
I have followed mountain bears
To a cave of deepest tome
There I wait, by the mouth
As the smoke it flushes out
Then I'll slowly drag one home

All these things are ever lost
Stillness has brought my love to cost

From the woods, from the woods
Once a vision from the woods
At a point between two tracks
Bound by tape, and by wire
Bruised and beaten in the fire
So the metals faded black
Newer ropes, stronger nets
Have us plumbing further depths
For the wolves we'll never be
Should we go, would we die
If the weight it was to slide
Drag our secrets to the sea

All these things are ever lost
Stillness has brought my love to cost

I taste the sulfur on my breath
I see the blood pool on the step
The moon so thick, the wounds so fresh
And all is well

From the woods, from the woods,
They are coming, from the woods
(Ahhh)

james vincent mcmorrow - ghosts

The moon holds the light
And the moon's this spinning globe
Shedding light upon the road
The bird won't fly
And a bird without its wings is a low and tragic thing

We are ghosts
We are ghosts amongst these hills
From the trees of velvet green
To the ground beneath our feet
We are ghosts
We are ghosts amongst these hills
Pressing out along the shore
Pressing out along the shore

The mountain song
Matters not the thoughts of thirds
Matters only to be heard
And though I'm gone
I will come again in Spring
When the harvest can begin

We are ghosts
We are ghosts amongst these hills
From the trees of velvet green
To the ground beneath our feet
We are ghosts
We are ghosts amongst these hills
Pressing out along the shore
Pressing out along the shore

james vincent mcmorrow - higher love

Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart and in the stars above
Without it, life is wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine

Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what's fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's this higher love, I've been thinking of?

Worlds are turning and we're just hanging on
Facing our fear, standing out there alone
Oh A yearning, and it's real for me
There must be someone who's feeling for me
Things look so bad everywhere

In this whole world, what's fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's this higher love, I've been thinking of?

I will wait for it, I'm not too late for it
Until then, I'll sing my song
To cheer the night along

I could light the night up with my soul on fire
I could make the sun shine from pure desire
Let me feel the love come over me
Let me feel how strong it can be

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love, oh
Bring me a higher love
I could rise above for this higher love

@iesss

james vincent mcmorrow - if i had a boat

Golden, golden, golden river run
To the East then drop beneath the sun
And as the moon lies low and overhead
We're lost

Burn slow, burning up the back wall
Long roads, where the city meets the sky
Most days, most days stay the sole same
Please stay, for this fear it will not die

If I had a boat, I would sail to you
Hold you in my arms, ask you to be true
Once I had a dream, it died long before
Now I'm pointed north, hoping for the shore

Down low, down amongst the thorn rows
Weeds grow, through the lilies and the vine
Birds play, try to find their own way
Soft clay, on your feet and under mine

If I had a boat, I would sail to you
Hold you in my arms, ask you to be true
Once I had a dream, it died long before
Now I'm pointed north, hoping for the shore

Splitting at the seams heaving at the brace
Sheets all billowing breaking of the day
Sea is not my friend and everyone conspires
Still i choose to swim slip beneath the tide

Once i had a dream once i had a hope
That was yesterday not so long ago
This is not the end this is just the world
Such a foolish thing such an honest girl

If I had a boat, I would sail to you
Hold you in my arms, ask you to be true
Once I had a dream, it died long before
Now I'm pointed north, hoping for the shore

james vincent mcmorrow - we don t eat

If this is redemption, why do I bother at all?
There's nothing to mention, and nothing has changed
Still I'd rather be working at something,
Than praying for the rain
So I wander on, till someone else is saved

I moved to the coast, under a mountain
Swam in the ocean, slept on my own
At dawn I would watch the sun
Cut ribbons through the bay
I'd remember all the things my mother wrote

That we don't eat until your father's at the table
We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Never once has any man I've met been able to love
So if I were you, I'd have a little trust

Two thousand years, I've been in that water
Two thousand years, sunk like a stone
Desperately reaching for nets
That the fishermen have thrown
Trying to find, a little bit of hope

Me I was holding, all of my secrets soft and hid
Pages were folded, then there was nothing at all
So if in the future I might need myself a savior
I'll remember what was written on that wall

That we don't eat until your father's at the table
We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Never once has any man I've met been able to love
So if I were you, I'd have a little trust

Am I an honest man and true
Have i been good to you at all
Oh I'm so tired of playing these games
We'd just be running down
The same old lines, the same old stories of
Breathless trains and, worn down glories
Houses burning, worlds that turn on their own

So we don't eat until your father's at the table
We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Never once has any man I've met been able to love
So if I were you my friend,
I'd learn to have just a little bit of trust

james vincent mcmorrow - get low

Heard you're getting married (get low)
Everybody say it (get low)
Greatest man alive (get low)
I've been told (I could never show, I could never show)
Bought yourselves a diamond (get low)
Finally getting paid (get low)
Buying people's silence (get low)
They're afraid (I could never show, I could never show)

Constant threat of violence, it works
It can get you so far
End up feeling worse, it's cold
Then you're left with no one

I love the way your heart had no rules
Loving what your heart becomes
Even when you smile, you're still cruel
Loving what your heart becomes
Remember when my hands, they turned blue
Loving what your heart becomes
I love the way you hang with no fools
Loving what your heart becomes

What your heart becomes
What your heart becomes

How'd we get invited? (get low)
Out here in l. a. (get low)
Trying to be the man you need (get low)
Every day (I could never show, I could never show)
Thought I'd write a novel (get low)
Didn't like the weight (get low)
It's hard to stay inspired (get low)
And stay awake (I could never show, I could never show)

And struggling in darkness, it works
It can get you so far
But digging in the dirt, it gets old
Then you're left with no one

I love the way your heart had no rules
Loving what your heart becomes
Even when you smile, you're still cruel
Loving what your heart becomes
Remember when my hands, they turned blue
Loving what your heart becomes
I love the way you hang with no fools
Loving what your heart becomes

What your heart becomes
What your heart becomes

Gather in a circle
Dropping to our knees
Praying for forgiveness from you
Begging please
Clapping like we mean it
And nothing's ever changing
Everything about it
Always stays the same

I love the way your heart had no rules
Loving what your heart becomes
Even when you smile, you're still cruel
Loving what your heart becomes
Remember when my hands, they turned blue
Loving what your heart becomes
I love the way you hang with no fools
Loving what your heart becomes

What your heart becomes
What your heart becomes

james vincent mcmorrow - hear the noise the moves so soft and low

Hear, hear the noise that moves so soft and slow
That's the sound of freshly fallen snow
Your love is gold, your love is gold

Seems, seems as though we'll be stuck out here for days
To bang upon these drums that we have made
You never know, you never know

My one, my only one
Lies sleeping in the sun
Gave chase and so we run
Nothing breaks your stride like whats become

Stack, stack the frozen wood next to the shed
Pile it up so high then paint it red,
Confuse the dogs, confuse the dogs

And time, time we lost is resting on the stairs
The window out reveals the cooler air
And so we go, and so we go

My one, my only one,
Lied twice to keep me on
Gave chase and so we sung
Everything that ends has still begun

From the inside of my mouth
And the slow migration south
It's not to be denied, it's not to be denied

james vincent mcmorrow - i lie every night

Have you come here to waste my time again
You're asking too many questions
Asking too many questions I can't stand
And they come out of nowhere
Put my head through a window instead of talking
Have you come here to save me
Have you come here to waste my time again

You'll never learn
You'll never learn how much I
Want to burn
I want to burn

Ever since I've been able
Ever since there's been weeds growing in my mind
Got a scent for the weekend
A descent into weakness defined
I'd stop the clock
But there's somethings I can't control
Full moon stop
Porcelain against a wall
Against a wall

You'll never learn
You'll never learn how much I
Wanna burn
I wanna burn
And you'll never know
You'll never know how much I
Want to go
I want to go

I stare right into the dark
Thinking of ways to remind myself
That it's all a current up here
I saw a current of fear inside

I start right into the dark
Thinking of ways to remind myself
That it's all a current up here
I saw a current of fear inside

And that's the way
I like it
I like it
I like holding you
That's the way
I like it
I like it
I like holding you

james vincent mcmorrow - killer whales

It's getting hard to want me
Back I know I know
Just close your eyes and hold your breath
It won't be long
Before denial becomes regret
Just like you saw
Before I climb then break my legs
Just like before

So I take a long way home
Then I call you up
Convince you it's someone else
Somebody sure

That I'm still in love
But I'm not sleeping at
Night I'm afraid I could die
Without leaving a mark

Who am I to swim with killer whales
Who am I to wade to sea
They say the less I know the better
That seems ideal to me
Cause I'm like a tragic on a rail
There's better things to be
Counting my blessings every day
That started recently

But I take a long way home
Then I call you up
Convince you it's someone else
Somebody sure

That I'm still in love
But I'm not sleeping at night
I'm afraid I could die
Without leaving a mark

Are you sure where you are?
Are you sure where you are?
Are you sure where you are?
Are you sure where you are?

Cause I'm still in love
But I'm not sleeping at
Night I'm afraid I could die
Without leaving a mark

james vincent mcmorrow - last story

Saw you out
Take off some clothes
Say something real
Make it real
You're the best
Instinct I know
Just keep it going
You're the best
Staying at home
Listening to feelings

You turn it up
In your mothers basement
Trying to hold a cup
Shallow light surrounding leaves
You're heard it all
Swing in my direction later
That's close enough

Swear to God
I'd run for you
You'd find me waiting
Then we'd start over
It sounds so easy
Cause it's the last story
We'll ever read
So lets start over
It sounds so easy

I was young
Sleeping outdoors
Next to some demons
I was young
Maybe twice
I picked a fight
Just to be violent
Maybe twice
I stepped inside
I touched the ceiling

Now I want to leave
I still believe it's possible
For us to be
Be the type who hear that ringing
And both agree
Agree we liked it better before
I started singing

Swear to god
I'd run for you
You'd find me waiting
Then we'd start over
It sounds so easy
When it's the last story
We'll ever read
So lets start over
It sounds so easy

When will I notice
The light come creep
When will I notice
The lies come creeping

Run for You
You'd find me waiting
Then we'd start over
It sounds so easy
When it's the last story
We'll ever read
So lets start over
It sounds so easy

james vincent mcmorrow