From my top 3 favorite bands

Iron and Wine

• Bird Stealing Bread
  • tell me, baby, tell me are you still on the stoop watching the windows close? i've not seen you lately on the street by the beach or places we used to go.
  • If i see you again on the street by the beach in the evening, will you fly like a bird stealing bread out from under my nose?
• Waiting for a Superman
  • Is it overwhelming to use a crane to crush a fly? It's a good time for Superman to lift the sun into the sky. 'Cause it's getting heavy, Well I thought it was already as heavy as can be.
• Love and Some Verses
  • Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees; love to say this to your face, "I'll love you only". for your days and excitement, what will you keep for to wear? someday drawing you different, may I be weaved in your hair?
  • Love and some verses you hear say what you can't say. love to say this in your ear, "I'll love you that way". from your changing contentments, what will you choose for to share? someday drawing you different, may I be weaved in your hair?
• Each Coming Night
  • Will you say when I’m gone away "My lover came to me and we'd lay in rooms unfamiliar, but until now"
  • Will you say to me when I’m gone "Your face has faded but lingers on 'Cause light strikes a deal with each coming night"
• Faded From the Winter
  • you're a poem of mystery; you're the prayer inside me; spoken words like moonlight; you're the voice that i like.
• Fever Dream
  • Some days her shape in the doorway will speak to me. A bird’s wing on the window. Sometimes I’ll hear her when she’s sleeping. Her fever dream, a language on her face.
  • Some days, like rain on the doorstep she’ll cover me with grace in all she offers. Sometimes I'd like just to ask her what honest words she can’t afford to say, like: "I want your flowers like babies want God’s love or maybe assurance tomorrow will come"
• Lion's Mane
  • run like a race for family when you hear like you're alone. the rusty gears of morning and faceless, busy phones. we gladly run in circles, but the shape we meant to make is gone.
  • and love is a tired symphony you hum when you're awake and love is a crying baby mama warned you not to shake and love's the best sensation hiding in the lion's mane.
  • so i'll clear the road, the gravel and the thorn bush in your path, that burns a scented oil that i'll drip into your bath. the water's there to warm you and the earth is warmer when you laugh.
  • and love is the scene i render when you catch me wide awake and love is the dream you enter though i shake and shake and shake you and love's the best endeavor waiting in the lion's mane.
• Passing Afternoon
  • There are names across the sea, only now I do believe. Sometimes, with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of me, But she'll mend his tattered clothes and they'll kiss as if they know her baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone.
• Peng 33
  • Curiosity far greater than the fear. It felt so simple, so prodigious, at the same time. Incredible things are happening in the world, Magical things are happening in the world.
• The Trapeze Swinger
  • But please remember me, my misery and how it lost me all I wanted.
  • Who the hell can see forever?
  • So please remember me, finally and all my uphill clawing. My dear, but if I make the Pearly Gates, I'll do my best to make a drawing of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl; An angel kissin' on a sinner; A monkey and a man, a marching band all around the frightened trapeze swinger.

The Shins

• Mines Not a High Horse
  • We'd like to go the distance, but not a one of us is gonna. you see nobody's wise enough to turn this ancient boat around these are the muddy waters i'm swimming in to make a living; that I might drown in them should come as no surprise.
• Young Pilgrims
  • I fell into a winter slide and ended up the kind of kid who goes down chutes too narrow just eking out my measly pies.
  • I watch the ice melt on the glass while the eloquent young pilgrims pass and leave behind their trail, imploring us all not to fail.
• New Slang
  • Turn me back into the pet that I was when we met. I was happier then with no mind-set.
  • And if you'da took to me like a gull takes to the wind. Well, I'da jumped from my tree And I'da danced like the king of the eyesores And the rest of our lives woulda fared well.
  • New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries. Hope it's right when you die, old and bony. Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall, Never shoulda called, but my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
  • I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find.
• Caring is Creepy
  • This is way beyond my remote concern of being condescending.
• The Past and Pending
  • Held to the past, too aware of the pending chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale.
  • Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless lies a trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running. Feed till the sun turns into wood, dousing an ancient torch loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.
• Gone For Good
  • I'd find a fatal flaw in the logic of love and go out of my head.
• Sleeping Lessons
  • Jump from the hook. You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise. See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life, And they got no right. As sure as you have eyes, They got no right.
• A Comet Appears
  • With burnt sage and a forest of bygones, I click my heels, Get the devils in line, A list of things I could lay the blame on, Might give me a way out.

Modest Mouse

• Night on the Sun
  • Turn off the light because its the night on the sun, youre hopelessly hopeless i hope so for you.
• Bukowski
  • Take what you want from me, you deserve it all.
• The Good Times are Killing Me
  • The good times are killing me.
• Heart Cooks Brain
  • On the planet that i call home, the years go fast and the days go so slow.
• Baby Blue Sedan
  • A nice heart and a white suit and a baby blue sedan and i am doing the best that i can.
  • And its hard to be a human being, and its harder as anything else, and im lonesome when your around, and im never lonesome when im by myself, but i miss you when your around.
• Out of Gas
  • Opinions were like kittens i was giving them away.
• Bankrupt on Selling
  • Well i'll go to college and i'll learn some big words and i'll talk real loud, Goddamn right i'll be heard.
• Broke
  • Broke my pace and ran out of time, sometimes I'm so full of shit that it should be a crime.
• Trailer Trash
  • And I shout that you're all fakes, And you should have seen the look on your face, And I guess that's what it takes when comparing your bellyaches, And it's been a long time, which agrees with this watch of mine. And I know that I miss you,And I'm sorry if I dissed you.