by Laura Veirs on album Saltbreakers

At the top of Phantom Mountain I saw the turquoise Brilliant burning sea The sweat on my shoulders The silvery haze Swords of lightning Hawks and Gulf Stream Made me crazy, crazy I could not tell the

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Lake Swimming Lake swimming Shucking free our deadened selves Like snakes and corn do Our bodies tore off swimming suits And all the old notions The cold ocean far away Enter the sun Mar

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Where Gravity Is Dead Where gravity is dead And the airplanes fly around Above the roaming bees And the buzzing town Above the tattered flags And the rotten show posters Above the clubs a

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Rialto Check out the skylark Riding and singing alongside Salt cool breeze coming from the West Ships and their lawlessness Running wild and the waves Wearing their bright blue summer bes

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Magnetized Slain By your zirconium smile I was slain By your olivine eyes Slain I was lying in piles Hoping shovels would cast me Furnaces burn everlasting Black tattoos of you onto me Fu

by Laura Veirs on album Year of Meteors

LAURA VEIRS Fire Snakes Mermaids Shimmer in the waves Wanted to share a word Course they only waved Left me alone With the blood in my mouth To paw and to pray To tear at the fray for a thundercloud

by Laura Veirs on album duyster.II

LAURA VEIRS Spelunking The tiny midnight caravan Made its way across the black hills As I watched from a distance The slow-going glow Their wandering you know Made me pine For the lamplight Where you

by Laura Veirs on album Tumble Bee

Continental soldiers on a bivouac Were playin' stud poker in a mountain shack Every vigilante laid down his hand When the captain of the guard gave a sharp command So Jimmy get your fiddle out a

by Laura Veirs on album Tumble Bee

Down the way where the nights are gay And the sun shines brightly on the mountain top I took a trip on a sailing ship And when I reached Jamaica I made a stop Well I'm sad to say, I'm on my way

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird Don't she warble as she flies She don't never holler coo coo Till the fourth of July Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird Don't I wish she was mi

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

This is the hammer that killed John Henry But it won't kill me No, it won't kill me No, it won't kill me Take this hammer and hand it to the captain And tell him I'm gone Won'

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

Freight train, freight train, run so fast Freight train, freight train, run so fast Please don't tell what train I'm on They won't know what route I've gone When I am dead and in

by Laura Veirs on album Two Beers Veirs

by Laura Veirs on album The Lookout

Cold mountain water Jade Merchant's daughter Mountains of the moon Electra, bow and bend to me Hi ho, the carrion crow Fol de rol de riddle Hi ho, the carrion crow Bow and bend to me Hey, Tom Banjo,

by Laura Veirs on album The Lookout

Cold mountain water Jade Merchant's daughter Mountains of the moon Electra, bow and bend to me Hi ho, the carrion crow Fol de rol de riddle Hi ho, the carrion crow Bow and bend to me Hey, Tom Banjo,

by Laura Veirs on album The Lookout

Cold mountain water Jade Merchant's daughter Mountains of the moon Electra, bow and bend to me Hi ho, the carrion crow Fol de rol de riddle Hi ho, the carrion crow Bow and bend to me Hey, Tom Banjo,

by Neko Case, k.d. lang & Laura Veirs on album case/lang/veirs

I kissed you in the morning But only in my mind's eye The sunlight rolls along your sleeping dunes The smell upon your skin is fireworks Delirium, delirium Kaleidoscoping in Could you love me too? In

by Neko Case, k.d. lang & Laura Veirs on album case/lang/veirs

We took a trip my Georgia and me Up through the wild strawberries Up past the river running loud We pitched a tent above the clouds Georgia Georgia Can you hear me calling in the grave Alone in field

by Neko Case, k.d. lang & Laura Veirs on album case/lang/veirs

I can meet you in the ring Where the sweat and punches fly I can meet you in the ring Where one of us is bound to cry Why do we fight? How can a love this pure and true Have me falling through the r

by Neko Case, k.d. lang & Laura Veirs on album case/lang/veirs

Supermoon Where all the diamond deals are made We never used to live this long We're pioneers my dear press on, move along And if my smile seems painted on once in a while I can count on you to notice