Christmas Child lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Winter's eve is creepin' in on December first, on a cold wind
And on the pantry door hangs a calendar
Counting down the days with their little doors
And I am just a Christmas Child
I lie upon the floor by the firelight in my home
Winter's eve, December 4. The tree is up and the lights adorn
I push the cloves into a tangerine
Fetch the holly from a neighbor's tree
And I am just a Christmas Child
I lie upon the floor by the firelight in my home
And I will lie lie lie awake
I will lie awake and I will stay right here until I fade away
Three weeks til Christmas Day
Winter's eve is nearer still, the house she creaks and the wind chills
Howlin' wind but I remain safely by the lighted pane
The frost, right upon the glass
You see the treeline fade into the dark of night right on time
And I will lie lie lie awake
I will lie awake and I will stay right here until I fade away
I will lie lie lie awake
Lie lie lie awake and I will stay right here until I fade away
Two weeks til Christmas Day
And I will lie lie lie awake
I will lie awake and I will stay right here until I fade away
I will lie lie lie awake
Lie lie lie awake and I will stay right here until I fade away
I will lie lie lie awake
Lie lie lie awake and I will stay right here until I fade away
One week til Christmas Day
One week til Christmas Day
One week til Christmas Day
Red Punch / Green Punch lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Nothing says Christmas like a party out at my great aunts
Out on the front lawn, some things never change
A manger scene, wise man, and herd of sheep so fantastic
Hard covered plastic blinking in the yard
Red punch, green punch, Brach holiday mints and some peanuts
The more things stay the same you know, the more they stay the same
Red punch, green punch, silver bowl of mints and some peanuts
The great aunts of the world you know will never change their game
Figurines like memories
Ceramics pulled from the basement, fire-glazed in 1963
Silent night music box, travel back in time
When Christmas always always shines
Red punch, green punch, Brach holiday mints and some peanuts
The more things stay the same you know
The more they stay the same
Red punch, green punch, silver bowl of mints and some peanuts
The great aunts of the world you know will never change their game
The poor years, the war years, the 50s and the 60s and the born years
Christmas in the 70s and the early 80s never fade
Red punch, green punch
Never thought that I could miss it so much
The more things change, you know
I think some things should stay the same
Red punch, green punch, silver bowl of mints and some peanuts
The great aunts of the world may come and go
But they never change their game
Ice And Snow lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Ice and snow
Ice and snow falling in time
Together they mingle and freeze
Ice and show
Just like the shade and the light
It's the blinding confusion
When the two of them meet
Ice and snow
Ice and snow, weary I know
But a fortress is not a reprieve
If I could melt ice and snow
Would you believe
That I would choose not to
To keep you with me
Souls in the shadows
Arms stretched to believe
Ghosts and their messengers
Sent to receive
Slip through the grasp
With the greatest of ease
Love me, just love me
'Till I rest at ease
Ice and snow
Ice and snow when it's the worst
You get the best of them both
Ice and snow
Ice and snow inside this fortress
But cold and alone
Makes no heart worthy home
Souls in the shadows
Arms stretched to believe
Ghosts and their messengers
Sent to receive
Slip through the grasp
With the greatest of ease
Love me, just love me
'Till I rest at ease
Souls in the shadows
Ice over snow
Once in a life
Just a few more to go
The start and the end
You know nobody knows
The part of life's living
When anything goes
Ice and snow
Ice and snow falling in time
Here one day
The next day it's gone
If I could melt ice and snow
Would you believe
That I would choose not to
To keep you with me
That I would choose not to
To keep you with me
Ode To The Snow lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Snowfall requires listening
And the silence it brings is deafening
As it whispers it echoes echoes through my bones
Bury me like silent peace
These gifts they fall like ancient memories
Like voices from the past cascading down
And the stillness drifts back in like possibility
And in the silence is where you find the song
And I'm blinded by the ease of letting go
Worlds shutting down... Just an ode to the snow
Tree limbs bend and spring up again
The snowfall fumbling down through the pines
To baptize, to confirm the frozen hallowed ground
Exhume my youth, everlasting change
Blankets entomb, the dreary colors fade
And I'm reminded to the time when I did everything
When the stillness drifts back in like possibility
And in the silence is where you find the song
And I'm blinded by the ease of letting go
Worlds shutting down... Just an ode to the snow
When the stillness drifts back in like possibility
And in the silence is where you find the song
When I'm blinded by the ease of letting go
Worlds shutting down... Just an ode to the snow
Worlds shutting down... Just an ode to the snow
Christmas At Sea lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Trying hard to stay awake
Christmas cards stacked on the table
I am at my desk thinking of you
Note after note
I spell out the season's greeting
Trying hard to keep them from becoming
Letters of distress
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S
A boat afloat at sea
Row you to me
Christmas at sea
Harboring the distant sound
It travels fast as rolling
Water I'm still at my desk, now I'm writing you
The house is dressed, the season's ornaments unpacked from the TV box
Silver, red, gold, and green
The window's lit, the tree is glowing
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S
A boat afloat at sea
Row you to me
Christmas at sea
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S a boat afloat at sea
Row you to me
And I apologize, it's late at night, if my mind is drifting, just let it slide
And I apologize, it's late at night
The weather has been nice
The streets abuzz with holiday
Traffic lights, of course, take forever
To make it through
The winter beach is clean and clear
I like how the lights just disappear
Over water
Over water
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S, a boat afloat at sea, row you to me
Christmas at C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S, a boat afloat at sea, row you to me
Christmas at sea (and I apologize) S-O-S, a boat afloat at sea (it's late at night, if my mind is drifting) row you to me (just let it slide)
Christmas at sea (I apologize) S-O-S, a boat afloat at sea (it's late at night, if my mind is drifting) row you to me (just let it slide)
Christmas at C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S (I apologize), a boat afloat at sea (it's late at night, if my mind is drifting) row you to me (just let it slide)
Christmas at C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S (I apologize), a boat afloat at sea (it's late at night, if my mind is drifting) row you to me (just let it slide)
Christmas at C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S (I apologize), a boat afloat at sea (it's late at night, if my mind is drifting) row you to me (just let it slide)
Christmas at C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S-O-S (I apologize), a boat afloat at sea (it's late at night, if my mind is drifting) row you to me
Toast To The New Year lyrics - Carbon Leaf
In the richest of seasons, we're drenched to the bone
While the light is still bright, we bring the year to a close
Sometimes we're standing there naked
Frozen in our own past, and winter's ritual colors
She rings out her last
And in the richest of seasons, in these colors we bathe
We greet the onset of winter and what we know she will take
And so you make resolutions, if it's all just the same
If a wound is a wound, why not just cut myself upon change?
In black and light, the year is formally closed
Yet still the darkest of seasons shimmer silver and gold
So let's dress up like penguins, we'll huddle en masse
We will ring in the new year, we'll throw a curse to the last
And so we make resolutions, if it's all just the same
If a wound is a wound, why not just cut myself upon change?
And so a toast to the New Year, and farewell to the last
May we dream ourselves forward, frozen wind at our backs
And so a toast to the New Year, and farewell to the last
May we dream ourselves forward, frozen wind at our backs
Another toast to the New Year, may we spring back to life
When the colors start shifting in the burgeoning light
May we spring back to life... may we spring back to life
When the colors start shifting in the burgeoning light
In black and white, the year is formally closed
Native America lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Carbon Leaf
As I went out in the open
I left for awhile
A tired stranger looking to be found
And so I stood there in silence
For someone to hear me
Someone to make the first sound
Someone to care for, someone to carry me home
I headed west to touch the ground
But the spirits didn't make a sound
As I stared in the face of Native America
And so my pilgrimage progress
Takes me over the land
Just so that I can keep up with the rush
And from the east to the west
I can feel my heart beating
To touch anything left untouched
Someone to care for, someone to carry me home
I headed west to touch the ground
But the spirits didn't make a sound
As I stared in the face of Native America
And so I leave to forget
To rebuild the patriot
Anything that I can find
Am I a visitor always
Always a stranger
Never knowing what I left behind?
Someone to care for, someone to carry me home
I headed west to touch the ground
But the spirits didn't make a sound
As I stared in the face of Native America
Out in the open
Wherever I'm looking
On everything that I see
Is an unwritten page
To an unfinished book
In an ongoing history
And as I stopped to see the earth go round
And as the sun's going up and down
It changes the face of Native America
And a river it runs right through
Red, white, black and blue
Straight down the face of Native America
I headed west to touch the ground
But the spirits didn't make a sound
As I stared in the face of Native America
Crossroads lyrics - Carbon Leaf
While at a crossroads
Headed A to B
I fell for a woman
Prone to run
But I couldn't make her follow me
So I offered up my heart
Before I left, final plea
And I would've taken her off
The hands of a man
If it were up to me
Standing at the crossroads
Just when everything meant to be
Faded out and disappeared
As far as the eye could see
We were standing at the crossroads
We were standing at the crossroads
Here we stood to assess the dirt
Where thunderclouds brushed the land
Here we stood, confessed to her
Heads bowed, hand in hand
Standing at the crossroads
Looking at these fields of dream
I stood and watched them come unsewn
Right at the patchwork seams
We were standing at the crossroads
We were standing at the crossroads
Standing at the crossroads
Just when everything meant to be
Faded out and disappeared
As far as the eye could see
Standing at the crossroads
Looking on these fields of dreams
I stood and watched them come unsewn
Right at the patchwork seams
We were standing at the crossroads
We were standing at the crossroads
We were standing at the crossroads
We were standing at the crossroads
If I Were A Cowboy lyrics - Carbon Leaf
The ghost of a building that once was a barn
Leans on itself on an old ghost-town farm
Its posts are all crippled
It's tired, it's done
Lays down to rest like a dog in the sun
Dust devils boil as they stretch for the sky
As if thirsty for more than the earth can provide
Sprinklers are quiet, hay's two bucks a bale
Just a piece of the west on the Oregon Trail
And if I were a cowboy I'd dance until dawn
If I were a cowboy I'd sing this song
Now the foothills roll on like a fabric of green
They fold in on themselves with no stitch and no seam
Higher to the mountains just fog and fir trees
If we haven't reached heaven we're at least at its knees
Corridors cut through these mountains of snow
Winding our way to the next makeshift home
So many ways out I forget where I am
So many ways out when a map's in your hand
And if I were a cowboy I'd dance until dawn
If I were a cowboy I'd sing this song
Out here the land is untouched and it's wide
There is no great progress, no great divide
The land seems so empty but with each step I know
Someone's been here before me with a story untold
Clouds in the valley
Dark shadows a break
A ghost creepin' and sweepin'
the dirt from his pain
Raindrops and teardrops
Just two bucks a bale
Another day in the west on the Oregon Trail
And if I were a cowboy I'd dance until dawn
If I were a cowboy I'd sing this song
And if I were a cowboy I'd dance until dawn
If I were a cowboy I'd sing this song
Midwestern Girl lyrics - Carbon Leaf
She's a midwestern girl
Her heart is paper mache
With a tornado ripping through
'Cause she is ready for change
California was fine
And she can soak up the sun
But she's returning to her roots
Where she will always belong
I-O-W-A, now
I-O-W-A, now
She's a midwestern girl
She's finally back in her state
I'm just a ghost out in the field
Virginia's so far away
She has the mane of a lion
Husky eyes that are framed
And cheekbones sculpted on the winds of I-O-W-A
Tell her when she's not around
Tell her as you're leaving town
Tell her when she's not around
Tell her everything now
But what are you supposed to say
To a midwestern girl as you are driving away
Well if you see your soulmate standing out in a field
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel
Down at the Val Air Ballroom
Out in western Des Moines
She's dancing out on the dance floor
And I feel high
Now the mirror ball spinning
It's a hundred degrees
It's always safer when it's crowded
But there are no guarantees
Tell her when she's not around
Tell her everything is fine
Tell her when she's not around
Before her roots take over
But I don't know what you're supposed to say
To a midwestern girl a thousand miles away
Well if you see your soulmate standing out in a field
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel
I'm just a ghost in a field
And she's a tundra queen
A midwestern girl beside an old evergreen
If you see your soulmate standing out in a field
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel
She's a midwestern girl
I got in late in the game
But I am driving in my mind to I-O-W-A
I-O-W-A, now [with crowd looping]
Unknown Bride lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Church bells, and I follow the sound
Footsteps on an unfamiliar ground
Tombstones led to
An old mission church on a hillside
If it was up to me
This is where it should be
I have watched you like watching the rain
Come to my hands
Feel the air drift through my fingers
Stretched out on the stone
Like a well for water I'm drunk for you
You alone
Oooh... you alone
Saturday rain, (brok by clouds)
Millions of people are starting to crowd
I am bound to you
You're by my side
Nowhere to hide
Unknown bride
Church doors swing wide to the sunshine
Out comes the tide, guests form their line
Church bells ring and all is alright
For the angel sings for the unknown bride
Dressed in white
Oooh... dressed in white
Saturday rain, (broke by clouds)
Millions of people are all having fun
I am bound to you
You're by side
Nowhere to hide
Unknown bride
Time to restore
Long overdue
Touch my face and pull me into you
Kiss my ear and dance this close to me
Hold me by your side until the unknown bride is the bride-to-be
The unknown bride is the bride-to-be
Saturday rain, (broke by the sun)
Millions of people have all come and gone
I am bound to you
You're by my side
Nowhere to hide
Unknown bride
Remember this place
Where the sun shone through just to kiss your face
If I should die without you by my side
Put my thin pine
On this hillside
Unknown Bride
For The First Time lyrics - Carbon Leaf
If I could see the western sky for the first time
If I could hold that horizon in my hand
If I could hold her close again before the wedding
If I could fall in love for the first time
If I could only let it go and start again
If I could write to my first love for the last time
What harm could it do?
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
If I could see that western sky for the first time
If I could hold that horizon in my hand
If I could sponge back the (pain) between two lovers lost
If I could fall in love again for the first time
If I could only let it go and start again
If I could pull the weeds of regret from a choking heart
What harm could it do?
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age
When I see that western sky for the last time
I will know for that for the first time I am done
(I will hang my head down out on the prairie)
A new age has begun
When I see that western sky for the last time
I will know for that for the first time I am done
I will cleanse my dusty hands out in the twilight
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age had begun
Love For Sale lyrics - Carbon Leaf
Love for sale
All of the love I would've given away
But I didn't wanna break your heart
Love for sale
I couldn't deny, I thought of running away
But I never wanna break your heart
Break your heart again
All my days
Lost in the shadows and feeling my way
You know I never really know where to start
Call my name
Lightning across the sky sideways
You know I never wanna be a part
Be a part again
There's nothing to leave behind
There's nothing to leave behind
There's nothing to leave behind
When you fall
When there's no one to call
When there's no one to call
When there's no one at all
Love for sale
Clamoring down another fire escape
But I'm sure you know it all by heart
All my time
All of your patience, all the warning signs
And you know I have a bleeding heart
There's nothing to leave behind
There's nothing to leave behind
There's nothing to leave behind
When you fall
When there's no one to call
When there's no one to call
When there's no one at all
There's nothing to leave behind
There's nothing to leave behind
There's nothing to leave behind
When you fall
When there's no one to call
When there's no one
When there's no one at all
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