Remember....

The stable song

Gregory Alan Isakov

Remember when our songs were just like prayer
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air
Come down, come down sweet reverence
Unto my simple house and ring... and ring

Ring like silver, ring like gold
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
Ring like clear day wedding bells
Were we the belly of the beast, or the sword that fell?
We'll never tell

Come to me, clear and cold
On some sea
Watch the world spinning waves
Like that machine

Now I've been crazy, couldn't you tell?
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table
Well I drank and sang, and I passed in the stable

That tall grass grows high and brown
Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground
And you sent me back to where I roam
Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know
Now I know

And I ran back to that hollow again
The moon was just a sliver back then
And I ached for my heart like some tin man
When it came, oh it beat and it boiled and it rang
Oh, it's ringing

Ring like crazy, ring like hell
Turn me back into that wild haired gale
Ring like silver, ring like gold
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal

Sospirando...

That Moon Song

Gregory Alan Isakov

the tail lights burn red

they were hotter than hell

and i’ve been long gone couldn’t you tell

the smoke in the air

couldn’t hide my shame

saw it lit up on that silver screen

and ahh that full bellied moon she’s a shinin on me

yeah she pulls on this heart like she pulls on the sea

and you came on strong like some running wave

and your beauty left me broke and hungry

left me begging to the birds for a bone or an offering

left me saying nothin, nothin, like i always say

and ahh that full bellied moon she’s a shinin on me

yeah she pulls on this heart like she pulls on the sea

and those broken hearted lovers,

they got nothing on me