All of these moments cling to each other Just like a small boy clutches his mother Maybe one day they?ll go their own way I keep linking the daisies
You ceased to mow the lawn ten years ago You just wanted to see how your garden would grow You abandoned the pruning shears and welcomed each weed You
Build a tower Build a wall Watch it burn Watch it fall Two for sorrow And one for joy I?ve seen it all And it all comes undone A pale man pleads A pale
I?ve kind of got used to feeling cold I know I was warm one day a long, long time ago Maybe there?s a road that?s not this hard I?d rather not say why
You?re a beautiful trace Across time and space You?re a thing that once shone And you still shine bright In the darkest night Though you?re already
Holy Moses Asleep in his basket Encountered a question But he couldn?t ask it Nor could he answer In baby sighs and baby cries At least he heard no
I know the warp of a thread Of fibres and filaments silver and red But these golden stars Are blood on my hands Baleerie, baleerie baloo I cradled you
When you?re looking at life on the brim And trying to figure out if you remember how to swim You only find out if you jump right in That there?s only
The back of the winter is broken And light lingers long by the door And the seeds of the summer have spoken In gowans that bloom on the shore CHORUS
Old as I am, older than The threads of understanding, which we weave between us Old as you are, older by far Than the contours of the love that we leave
O MIRK, mirk is this midnight hour, And loud the tempest's roar; A waefu' wanderer seeks thy tower, Lord Gregory, ope thy door. An exile frae her father
Have you ever held something until your hands were aching? And then let it go and watched it fall and listened to it breaking? I have held back time
Six rain ridden summers and he still had an eye for me He kissed me each evening and told me he?d die for me And then he ran off the road, full of whisky
You?ve been waiting for the wind to change direction Waiting for the sun to shine You?ve been waiting for a new connection But you?re walking on the same
Words & Music: Karine Polwart Who stole the heart of my bonnie laddie? All alone and aloney O And left me another lad in his body Down where I cannot
Caught between the air and the windless deep (exit bass) You float like a lily flower. And you look just like you fell to earth to sleep And you?re waiting
I used to think I could live by the law And believe everything that my own two eyes saw But now all the certainties have come undone And it?s harder to
Skater of the surface Where the ice is thin Without plan or point or purpose You just spin and spin and spin and spin Skater of the surface You never