Gathering lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Blinding bright, we see

Through renaissance dreaming

We believe the daily muse

Buried but listening

And all we need is gathering

Fighting night, we leave

All our befallen gifts surround us

We retreat to the darkened lodge

That's cold with no songs to sing

And all we need is gathering

So chase the bear

Or run away

Put on your mittens to curse the flame

Spirits from

The gallows sang

"Stand in the fire but pray for rain"

Hollow out yourself

Just to take it in again

And find the distant sound

An empty vessel

But it's always haunted, thrashing out

Soon we find

All we need is gathering

So chase the bear

Or run away

Put on your mittens to curse the flame

Spirits from

The gallows sang

"Stand in the fire but pray for rain"

Blinding bright, we sing

Through renaissance dreaming

We believe the daily muse

Buried but forever free

And all we need is the gathering

So chase the bear

Or run away

Put on your mittens to curse the flame

Spirits from

The gallows sang

"Stand in the fire but pray for rain"

So chase the bear

Or run away

Put on your mittens to curse the flame

The songs of old

Remain the same

Stand in the fire but pray for rain

Stand in the fire but pray for rain

Stand in the fire but pray for rain

Wind In The Leaves lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Wind in the leaves

Crawl from my bed

The forest floor opens itself

To clear my dusty head

Wind in the leaves along a sylvan path

Your memory's grown inside me

Like a knotted branch

Rushing by like a spirit

Like a banshee through the trees

Moving everything in sight

But still sight unseen

Rushing by like a spirit

Like an angel through the trees

Was that for me? Was that for me?

Wind in the leaves along a sylvan path

Your memory's grown inside me

Like a knotted branch

From somewhere on the forest floor

A muted roar, a muted roar

Wind in the leaves congregations in the grain

Tripping over answered prayers

But washing out the bloody stain

Wind in the leaves

Another season I begin

To ring around the lake of fire

To touch the stones that bring me back again

And sometimes I rage

As if to punch a hole through the sky

Shouting into some heaven where everything you love

Is just passing by

Rushing by like a spirit

Like an angel through the trees

Was that for me? Was that for me?

Wind in the leaves along a sylvan path

Your memory's grown inside me

Like a knotted branch

From somewhere on the forest floor

A muted roar, a muted roar

Wind in the leaves along a sylvan path

Another memory born

Another look back

From somewhere on the forest floor

A muted roar, a muted roar

Come Sunday Morn lyrics - Carbon Leaf

My eyes are hazy. My spirit's weak

I can run with the best of 'em

But my legs have gone to sleep

Switch on the bright lights. Turn on this town

Tell the Ledger-Star the prodigal son-of-a-bitch is comin' round

Leave my blue suede shoes by the door

Break 'em in and then ask forgiveness

Come Sunday morn

All these floorboards are barely worn

Break 'em in and then ask forgiveness

Come Sunday morn

I woke this mornin' a ball full of rage

A heart full of burnin' fire was beatin' on its cage

Mom has gone to heaven. Dad is fairly well

Sister's got her hands too full

And I've gone all to hell

Leave my blue suede shoes by the door

Break 'em in and then ask forgiveness

Come Sunday morn

All these floorboards are barely worn

Break 'em in and then ask forgiveness

Come Sunday morn

Dance with me until the boiling fever's sweated out

Until the pales of grief run bottomless

On the flames that brought the drought

Switch on the bright lights. Turn on this town

Run me through 'til I turn to powder

And dash me on the ground

Leave my blue suede shoes by the door

Break 'em in and then ask forgiveness

Come Sunday morn

All these floorboards are barely worn

Break 'em in and then ask forgiveness

Come Sunday morn

Bow & Arrow (Shore Up A Love) lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Call the doctor!

Start to pray!

You've got to shore up

Your love today

Life will end

In peculiar ways

And the time you spend

Is un-exchanged

Whoa, bow and arrow's poised

To the sea of sky up above

One thing's for sure

You've gotta shore up a love

You've gotta shore

Shore up a love

From outside the garden

On a summer's eve

I see you crouched down

Pulling weeds

And I hide my face

From the memories

Like I hide my prayers

When I'm on my knees

Whoa, bow and arrow's drawn

To the sea of sky up above

One thing's for sure

You've gotta shore up a love

You've gotta shore

Shore up a love

Sing hallelujah!

Say amen!

Just shout it out

To begin again

In the wading pool

Of original sin

You know my heart

Was the first one in

Whoa, bow and arrow shoot

Into the sea of sky up above

One thing's for sure

You've gotta shore up a love

You've gotta shore

Shore up a love

You've gotta shore

Shore up a love

Gifts From The Crows lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Morning hits me up early

I follow my thoughts down the road

I take what I find

I keep my pockets lined

Looking for gifts from the crows

They follow me all through the branches

They call out the signs of warning

They gather and off they go

They follow me all through the branches

They call out the signs of warning

They gather and off they go

But I don't want to be

All alone, all alone

All alone, all alone

All alone, all alone

All alone, all alone

Shining on the way home

I found a gift from the crows

There's a candle set on the table

There's a orange burning low in the sky

There's a fragile peace washing over me

But it never outpaces the night

And we're telling the tales of our longings

And we're piercing the veil

With our stars that we scored from memory

And we're telling the tales of our longings

And we're piercing the veil

With our stars as we scored the memory

But I don't want to be

All alone, all alone

All alone, all alone

All alone, all alone

All alone, all alone

Shining on the way home

I found these gifts from the crows

Keep my pockets lined

They're shining for me on the way home

All of these gifts from the crows

Constellation Prize (2013)

• Circus
• Love Rain Down
• Alcatraz
• All Of My Love
• Two Aging Truckers
• Ragtime Carnival
• Sparklers
• Pierce My Heart
• Wolfin Down Your Heart
• Tombstone Vs. Ashes 

Circus lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Caught in a crowd, it's like a garden

And you're turning a phrase

How do you unmask from the performance

When all the world's a stage?

Is this where, where I belong?

Is this where, where I belong?

In the long shadows, in the darkness

Of confusion and purpose, it's time

We all have our window and vision

Yet sometimes I feel so blind

Can you explain to me what I see?

Can you help me decipher and decide?

Is this where, where I belong?

Is this where, where I belong?

The sun blinks its brilliant eyes

On confusion and purpose, it's time

To find the place you're broken in

And stare into the never-ending sunlight

I'm so done with this circus

Yet I love this escape

How do you free yourself and leave the rest

To the beasts in the gilded cage?

If every end is a new beginning

Is there cause to celebrate?

If any pause for reflection's been lost

In your need to fill all that empty space

Is this where I belong?

Is this where, where I belong?

The sun blinks its brilliant eyes

On confusion and purpose, it's time

Is this where, where I belong?

Is this where, where I belong?

The sun blink your eyes on the dark, broiling skies

On confusion and purpose, it's time

To find the place you're broken in

And stare into the never-ending sunlight

Sunlight

Sunlight

Sunlight

Love Rain Down lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Effortless, she's walking through

Walking through every open door

Like a breeze, love kind of blows

When you know what you don't know

Everything I need to know

I learned as a child

And I won't say that I was ready

But I will say it was time

That I let love rain down

That I let love rain down

I've run dry of lofty words

Am I a saint? Am I a fool?

I'll let the judgment rest on your shoulders

What's in the heart is solely up to you

Everything I need to know

I learned as a child

And at the end of this sordid history

I don't wanna come up dry

So, I let love rain down

Yeah, I let love rain down

Effortless, she showers down

Down from every single cloud

Like the rain, she likes to soak

When you don't have it, nothing grows

When the last word on love falls upon the ground

If the last ray of sun don't ever shine

Well, I can't say that I was ever ready

But I can sure say it was time

That I let love rain down

Yeah, I let love rain down

That I let love rain down

That I let love rain down

Alcatraz lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Hello its been awhile

You know I wished you well

I wrote a song for you

So break the chains and damn the cell

You wrote love, love is everywhere

In the notebook you gave me

You made a list of joys for me and you put your name first

How?

How?

How is no man is an island?

Well with California sliding off the chart

Pack your suitcase up and make a brand new start

California sliding off the map

Hurry now, can you make it home, can you make it back?

If nothing's built to last, why don't you, just put me out on Alcatraz?

I've been accused a time or two

Of having sentimental attributes of hanging on too long

When nostalgia is a vice that captures a warm place in time

And like a cool fog rolling in, clouding up the heart and minds

Whoa!

Whoa!

Oh well no man's an island.

Well with California sliding off the chart

Pack your suitcase up and make a brand new start

California sliding off the map

Hurry now, can you make it home, can you make it back?

If nothing's built to last, why don't you, just put me out on Alcatraz?

And every tear in your past, the reservoir you blink away

Washing down all the hilly streets, out into the bay

No man is an island, but each one does his time

To see if he can tough it out, in a prison of the mind

And like a note to a lover

Through the blue lines you can see

A chance to stay a prisoner, or an easy way to break yourself free!

Break yourself free!

Whoa California sliding off the chart

Pack your suitcase up baby open up your heart

California sliding off the map

Hurry now, can you make it home, can you make it back?

If nothing's built to last, and why don't you, just put me out on Alcatraz?

All Of My Love lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Where do lovers start?

In a starry eye

In a starry sea of gazes

We lay ourselves to rest

Where do lovers start?

In the wild calling of our heart

To an unknown place we call home

We lay ourselves to rest

To rest in this silent lullaby

When there's not a whole lot left

You're cradling the pieces

Of everything I am

All of my love

Where does the love connect?

In the starry sky

In the spirit, in the roiling firmament

Recovery is gain

To rest in your silent lullaby

When there's not a whole lot left

You're cradling the pieces

Of everything I am

All of my love

These wooden nickels age

Time to settle up when there's nothing left

Just be the life inside

Just be my place of rest

Where do lovers start?

In a starry eye

Bestowed upon the youth

To carry me away

To carry me away

To carry me away

To rest in this silent lullaby

When there's not a whole lot left

Keep cradling the pieces

Of everything I am

All of my love

All of my love

All of my love

All of my love

(You're carrying all the weight)

All of my love

(Carry it all away)

All of my love

(Carry it all away)

All of my love

(Carry it all away)

All of my love

(Carry it all away)

All of my love

(Carry it all away)

All of my love

(You're carrying all the weight)

All of my love

(You're carrying all the weight)

All of my love

(Carry it all)

Two Aging Truckers lyrics - Carbon Leaf

A horse needs to run

A heart needs to bleed

An engine can't gain the miles

If it's kept pristine

If the view of change is constant

Just like I've been told

Is any backyard the boundless start

To all directions unknown?

Will I be there?

Will I be there

When all the stories fade?

When I am out of breath?

My yoke is your yoke

Is resting on our shoulders

And we share the weary load

My yoke is your yoke

We're just like two aging truckers

Down the road

Children of our parents

A storybook held close

A mom and dad's heartfelt work

Is worked down to the bone

And the leveraging meant everything

And so a palace for a home

The remains of the day

Were never shown, never known

Will I be there?

Will I be there

When all the stories fade?

When I am out of breath?

My yoke is your yoke

Is resting on our shoulders

And we share the weary load

My yoke is your yoke

We're just like two aging truckers

Down the road

Two aging truckers down the road

We now work in reverse

We salvage and we save

We fight the rust

One if by land, two if by grace

Sure as the spring will hail

The greenest in all things

Let the freshest of our love set sail

And float the open breeze

Will I be there?

Will I be there

When all the stories fade?

When I am out of breath?

Will I be there?

Will I be there

When all the stories, oh

My yoke is your yoke

Is resting on our shoulders

And we share the weary load

My yoke is your yoke

We're just like two aging truckers

Down the road

Two aging truckers down the road

Two aging truckers down the road

Two aging truckers down the road

Ragtime Carnival lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Come and dance with me, baby

Hitch a ride, all aboard

Don't you dare say, "I love you."

Tell me once, tell me twice

Three times a charm, I'm out the door

Hold me close, pretty baby

Come alive inside my heart

Don't you dare say, "I need you."

Tell me once, tell me twice

Three times a charm, I'm out the door

And I'm getting old, oh lord

I'm getting old

Tell me it's true

Do you think of me

The way I still think of you?

Come and dance with me, baby

Take the carnival ride inside your heart

Lay your jewelry out before me

Say the words that make the world

Go round and round and round

Just be the love that sustains me

Come alive, come alive

Don't you dare say you'll miss me

Tell me once, tell me twice

Three times a charm, I'm out the door

But I'm getting old, whoa lord

I'm getting old

Tell me it's true

Do you think of me

The way I still think of you?

So, what's it take, pretty baby

I need a haircut and you can shave my face

There's a way that you touch me

Tell me once, tell me twice

Three times a charm, I'm out the

Tell me once, tell me twice

Three times a charm, I'm out the

Tell me once, tell me twice

Three times a charm, you know I'm yours

Come and dance with me, baby

Come and dance with me, baby

Come and dance with me, baby

Come and dance with me, baby

(I'm getting old, oh lord)

Come and dance with me, baby

(I'm getting old, oh lord)

Come and dance with me, baby

(I'm getting old, oh lord)

Come and dance with me, baby

(I'm getting old, oh lord)

Come and dance with me, baby

I'm getting old, oh lord

I'm getting old, oh lord

I'm getting old, oh lord

I'm getting old, oh lord

I'm getting old

Sparklers lyrics - Carbon Leaf

A little speck falls into the sky

Rub against the night in a flash of a fiery line

Little specks fall, pebbles, dust and sand

Things we hold inside our everyday hands

Somehow, somehow

We come alive just as we're flaming out

And we wish ourselves whole

And we hope ourselves pure

And we will ourselves different

And we pray ourselves upright

All the sparklers in the sky

Once around, if given time

They come out just fine

They come out just fine

The tears, the scars, the laughter, the love

The ebb and flow under the stars up above

How on earth, if we're just floating on by

Can all this darkness breed such beautiful light?

Somehow, somehow

We come alive just as we're flaming out

And we breathe ourselves calm

And we faith ourselves sure

And we sway ourselves evergreen

And we laugh, "Bring on the night."

All the sparklers in the sky

Once around, if given time

Will come out just fine

Will come out just fine

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine (Will come out just fine)

Will come out just fine... (Will come out just fine...)

Pierce My Heart lyrics - Carbon Leaf

I want to live in the evergreens

The Painted Desert's arid scenes

In the wilderness of your eye

I heard a sigh, your sigh or mine

In the staggering beauty

I'm climbing this beast's rigid spine

Dance to the rhythm of the aspen leaves

Quivering, quivering

Oh, what in the world?

What in the world?

Oh, what in the world?

What in the world?

Love, pierce my heart

Make it sound, make it whole

Love, pierce my heart

Fill it up, spill my soul

I want to fall through the canyonlands

Snake across the shifting sands

Glide the plateau while I resist

The quenching thirst, velveteen bliss

I want to live on the open breeze

Just a piece of wild terrain

All of these elements sculpting me

They carve your name

They carve your name

Oh, what in the world?

What in the world?

Oh, what in the world?

What in the world?

Love, pierce my heart

Make it sound, make it whole

Love, pierce my heart

Fill it up, spill my soul

Love, pierce my heart

Make it sound, make it whole

Love, pierce my heart

Fill it up, spill my soul

Love, pierce my heart

Make it sound, make it whole

Love, pierce my heart

Fill it up, spill my soul

Love, pierce my heart

Make it sound, make it whole

Love, pierce my heart

Fill it up, spill my soul

Love, pierce my heart

Make it sound, make it whole

Love, pierce my heart

Fill it up, spill my soul

Love, pierce my heart

Make it sound, make it whole

Love, pierce my heart

Fill it up, spill my soul

Wolfin Down Your Heart lyrics - Carbon Leaf

You're wolfing down your heart

You've hollowed out your soul

Your empty hands are enough to starve from

But still full enough to choke

Black crows, they're waiting for you

They know your ego's an empty bowl

You're searching to hold on to

Just something you can use

The crumbs you dropped, the threads from your buttons

The laces off of your own shoes

Black crows, they're waiting for you

They know your ego's an empty bowl

Climb to the top of your world

To find that there's nobody there

One set of boots at a time on the summit

It's lonely when there's no room to share

Black crows, they're circling you

They know your ego's an empty bowl

The heart's to be given away

Just as it was made

The soul's a much more ephemeral engine

Not tethered to earth-bound ways

So, say hello and settle in

Or hop upon the slightest breeze

If it doesn't take you where you hoped it would go

May it land you square on your knees

Black crows, they're waiting for you

They know your ego, your ego

Black crows on the telephone poles

You know your ego, you ego

Black crows on the side of the road

They know your ego's an empty bowl

You're wolfing down your heart

Tombstone Vs. Ashes lyrics - Carbon Leaf

A boy in church sat, confused

Father, son, holy ghost

Came as a package for the asking

Otherwise, no need to choose

Tombstone versus ashes

I can't decide

Cast my spirit heaven-bound?

Seal my bones up tight?

Tombstone versus ashes

Ain't it all the same?

Cast my spirit heaven-high

Let the ashes drift away

Oh ay, oh I...

Ain't we just like hay?

Cut and dried and baled

Our bodies grown to harvest souls

And used in some new way

Yeah, ain't we just like hay?

We're born to drift away

Til it's lesson time, when we're cut and dried

For the reasons why we're made

Tombstone versus ashes

I can't decide

Cast my spirit heaven-bound?

Seal my bones up tight?

Tombstone versus ashes

Ain't it all the same?

Cast my spirit heaven-high

Let the ashes drift away

Oh ay, oh I...

All this time, like firelight

A glimpse of what's in reach

Flickers out into night

All this time, like firelight

A glimpse of what's in reach

A box of watches and sweet memories

Are all that's left behind

Tombstone versus ashes

I can't decide

Cast my spirit heaven-bound?

Seal my bones up tight?

Tombstone versus ashes

Ain't it all the same?

Cast my spirit heaven-high

Let the ashes drift away

Oh ay, oh I...

Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle (2013)

• Bloody Good Bar Fight Song
• The Donnybrook Affair
• Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle (Instrumental)
• She's Gone (...For Good This Time)
• Oi
• A Song For The Sea
• Februaery Detailles (Instrumental)
• The Fox And The Hare
• I Love Victory!
• Amhrán Damhsa (Instrumental)
• Sad And Alone
• The Road Is Breaking My Heart 

Bloody Good Bar Fight Song lyrics - Carbon Leaf

Everything is fine

The spirit has to spill

This blood must turn to wine

Long before you're over the hill

Service to all the kings

Falling down on their pride

The lion's den hangs the crest

Of a man too occupied

Everything was fine

Until you bruised your way

Into my life

You're like one good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

Everything was fine

Until you bruised your way

Into my life

You're one good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

One good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

Everything you have

Is all you've ever known

Hang up the golden gloves

Time to claw down to the bone

Serve it up to swill

Til everything you have begins to spill

One is all you need

And all you need is life to sing along

Everything was fine

Until you bruised your way

Into my life

You're like one good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

Everything was fine

Until you bruised your way

Into my life

One good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

One good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

Everything was fine

Until you bruised your way

Into my life

You're one good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

Everything was fine

Just a few broken bones

Then the teeth begin to fly

One good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

One good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

One good bloody

Bloody good bar-fight song

The Donnybrook Affair lyrics - Carbon Leaf

A row, a ruction, a fracas, an affray

A rough-n-tumble free-for-all

A broil, a brawl, a melee

A ruckus to be reckoned with

And now without delay

We're takin the road to the Dodder on down

To march in the last parade

A row, a ruction, a fracas, an affray

A rough-n-tumble free-for-all

A broil, a brawl, a melee

A ruckus to be reckoned with

If anyone wants to dare

We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down

For the Donnybrook affair

I will go! I will meet you there

I will spend a week or two with you

At Donnybrook Fair

I will go! I will meet you there

But the council's up in arms

They aim to take it away I swear

The council's up in arms

They aim to take it away I swear

A license for leisure, What-e'er be the pleasure

The council's always up in arms

To try and take it away, hey!

Play the harp and play the fiddle

Play the whistle too

Bang the drum and use the lungs

To get the message through

But ya fight ya might get tar-n-feathered

So bow and say a prayer

To the commission for the abolition

Of the Donnybrook Fair

A row, a ruction, a fracas, an affray

A rough-n-tumble free-for-all

A broil, a brawl, a melee

A ruckus to be reckoned with

If anyone wants to dare

We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down

For the Donnybrook affair

I will go! I will meet you there

I will spend a week or two with you

At Donnybrook Fair

I will go! I will meet you there

But the council's up in arms

They aim to take it away I swear

The council's up in arms

They aim to take it away I swear

A license for leisure, what-e'er be the pleasure

The council's always up in arms

To try and take it away, hey!

A row, a ruction, a fracas, an affray

A rough-n-tumble free-for-all

A broil, a brawl, a melee

A ruckus to be reckoned with

And now without delay

We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down

To march in the last parade

A row, a ruction, a fracas, an affray

A rough-n-tumble free-for-all

A broil, a brawl, a melee

A ruckus to be reckoned with

If anyone wants to dare

We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down

For Donnybrook affair

I will go! I will meet you there

I will spend a week or two with you

At Donnybrook Fair

I will go! I will meet you there

But the council's up in arms

And they aim to take it away I swear

I will go! I will meet you there

I will spend a week or two with you

At Donnybrook Fair

I will go! I will meet you there

But the council's up in arms

They aim to take it away I swear

The council's up in arms

They aim to take it away I swear

The council's always up in arms

To try and take it away, hey!

Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle lyrics - Carbon Leaf

(Instrumental)