All That We Let In lyrics

words and music by emily saliers

I've seen the sun on a funeral, the full moon in a midday sky

Tactician politician hold his head and wonder why
I'm always struck that much harder by the power of suggestion

By now I know the answer's always in the question

Now that we're done with that why don't you warm the car

All of the fields are filled with fresh boys playing football

dog at the window still looks all day never gets her fill

cause a glance means a chance to break the birds out congregating

I have seen a look like that you licked your chops from where you sat
make your kill for a thrill and you don't mind waiting

rise up your dead, there's life in the old girl yet

rise up your dead

when it bums you out, all the hunters sprung to pounce

words and music by amy ray

The volunteers come for your prayers

and some souvenirs,
With ivory skin and boycott lessons

Year after year.

Well I'm tracing your face up in the space of the bottom bunk,

Oh Cordova.

Where I cried and I cried,

I knew I was trading on things that I didn't have,

The things that I didn't have.

Now you come to me

With revolution's infidelity,

Won't have you see me as your sad sack

Lost my something and I can't get it back

Or a kill on your trophy rack

I checked my schedule now my train is rolling down a track
Past the sadness of the salt flats

To the prospect of the land fat

Or just a lazy orange house cat

On the sofa where I'll be put up

You've been the hole in my sky, (you're) my shrinking water supply

A hard knock
A cold clock
Ticking off my time
A long look
But no luck
Couldn't seem to find
Or unwind
Into peace of mind
While I was trying

A quick glance
A big chance
My heart beat like a drum
I saw you
And I knew
Chances just don't come
Round again
Not like this
First a laugh
Then a kiss

And I'm free in you
I've got no worries on my mind
I know what to do

Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo

Dust in our eyes our own boots kicked up
Heartsick we nursed along the way we picked up
You may not see it when it's sticking to your skin
But we're better off for all that we let in

Lost friends and loved ones much too young
So much promises and work left undone
When all that guards us is a single centerline
And the brutal crossing over when it's time

Oooooooo

Dark clouds are comin' like an army
Soon the sky will open up and disarm me
You will go just like you've gone before
One sad soldier off to war, enemies that only you can see.

Dishes stacked, the table cleared
It's always like the scene of the last supper here
You speak so cryptically that's not news to me
The flood is here it will carry you
And I've got work to do.

You spent five years saying you'd come my way
That's a little more wait than a heart can take
Yeah now that I know it's just a fantasy
I feel a hard time coming around for me
I said oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone
Oh oh
Oh oh
There's a heartache for everyone

I spent two years saying give me a chance
Hey I'd give it all up and I'll take your hand

We get to be a ripple in the water
We get to be a rock that's thrown
We get to be a boy on the bridge
Standing over the reservoir
I see the water lapping on the shoreline
Buried forest of a man made lake
Cemeteries are laying underneath it
Your heart like a damn embrace

We're floating we're swimming
And at this moment we are forgetting
What we caused what it takes

Whatever it was, is wasn't manumission

To spill the blood, to pull the weed

You can bury the past, but it's a mausoleum

With the ghost of a fist that won't let us be
Can we bring it together,

Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?

Can we make it better,

Do we tether the hawk, do we tether the dove?

I kicked up the dirt, and I said to my neighbor

I heard that you were drunk and mean
Down at the dairy queen
There's just enough of you in me
For me to have sympathy
And take it in stride
I know I had mine
And you were as kind
I am told

Ain't it funny how we lose one day
And a lifetime
Slips away
I'm looking back on us that way
Something I
Never thought I'd say
I take it in stride
I know I had mine
It was good for a time