Appaloosa Bones Album Lyrics by Gregory Alan Isakov

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The Fall

The fall, the fall, the fall
I keep stumbling back

Ivory bone opera glass
Angles of attack
You heard blood was thick, brothers and sisters
But ya don't know where anybody's at

Time was a bust, you thought you'd better be tough
Nobody gets past
The trembling wire

All eyes on you now, on you
We're all holding our breath
All eyes on you now, on you (the fall, the fall, the fall)
We're still holding our breath

We all break a little
We all break a little
We all break a little when we fall
And everybody keeps saying, "Get up, get up"

The fall, the fall, the fall
"Go on, get up"
The fall, the fall, the fall

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Before the Sun

Fifty-five mile signs
Thunder crack and lightning
While something else inside
Shines like the fourth of July

I'll go it on my own
I'll go it on my own, go it on my own
Sand City bus kicking up dust, kicking up dust
Before the sun comes up

The devil sees us now
Clear as the moon glows
Sleeping in our winter clothes
Radio's a crackling fire

I'll go it on my own
I'll go it on my own, go it on my own
Sand City bus kicking up dust, kicking up dust
Before the sun comes up

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Appaloosa Bones

Was it the voice I've known
Or your Appaloosa bones
That carried me home across the plains?
It's like you say all the time, "World has lost its mind"
Between you and I, I know that I've lost mine

Was I that gone? Man, I hope not
Glad you found me when you did

Well, there ain't no work
Just Pennsylvania birds
I heard they're nesting now in the city
And the TVs on from every window, every window
Evenings fall and flicker through the glass

Was I that gone? Man, I hope not
Glad you found me when you did

We've got a window sill
They haven't made no pill
To get us 'cross the wintertime
Tell time by the walls
Watch the shadows fall
And the pages slow in the room I called your name
And the pages slow in the room I called your name

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Silver Bell

Annabelle, I'll be gambling 'til my bones are 'neath the apple field
Silver rain makes green every once in a while

I been lost, lost at every crossing, I was just drifting cold
Couldn't tell ya how many times I was ready to fold

Finally found us some good luck, let's see if it lasts

Cold, cold, every shoulder, still I learned to lean and freeze
Your roaring smile, campfire lit up the trees

Ah, my gal, she's a silver bell, she pulls straight from the loam
Just a kiss from your lips and I'm ready to go

Finally found us some good luck, let's see if it lasts

Swing high, swing low, come to carry
We're here on the ground, but I swear it's heaven

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Watchman

Our love was untested, never rested
Slipping through our city fingers
Always dressed up, but never picked up
Watch every headlight cruising past our door

Oh, who's gonna pick us up?
Oh, the night is starting to ache
Oh, who's holding the reins?
Oh

And that sonar satellite that sings to us in universe
We're just hard stone but so easily broken
Like crumbling ruins off the coast of Spain

Oh, I'll keep watch tonight
Oh, when the coyote come
Oh, I'll be your watchman
Oh, while they're just flashes
They're just flashes

So take me however I seem to be, haunted I know
Our love got lost out there
Arm in arm, we'll light our torches
And search the fields behind the houses

Oh, our love is hungry and cold
Oh, here in the first snow
Oh, leave a trail of stones
Oh, so we can make it back

Oh, our love is hungry and cold
Oh, our love is hungry
Oh, our love is hungry and cold
Oh

Oh, our love is hungry
Oh, our love is hungry
Oh

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Miles to Go

Hotel bar
Sinking in
Broken heart
Busted strings

Lamplight eyes
Telephone wires
Darkened sky
We're almost home

I've been burning all my daylight
Running even midnight caught fire
Only way I ever learned how

Highway signs, cut the clay
You find yourself miles away

If you lie awake
While your universe shakes
And I go weightless and fall
Claws out for you now
Just hold on to yourself
Almost home
We got miles to go

Miles to go
But we're almost home

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Terlingua

Fox runs with the lightning
Worked its way into an open field
Come midnight, we'll all be dreaming
It's the owl who owns the evening

Remember when the engine quit?
My head against the steering wheel
You sparked up, began to grin
You and all your silver linings

Desert flowers wait for rain
Scattered seeds along the plains
Storms will swell, the days will fly
I'll love you like the passing time

There's hissing in the underbrush
Let's try and not talk too much
Promise I won't say a thing
It's the owl who owns the evening

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Mistakes

I caught a golden wave
It left me lost at sea
I turned crazy
Wild and awake
The ocean was angry
Foaming at the mouth

Turning in the undertow
Turning in the under
Turning in the under
Turning in the undertow

Mistakes, ah, ya paid, and paid, and paid for
Sun breaks, but you're finding only shadow

So you paid, and paid, and paid
So you paid, and paid, and paid

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One Day

One day the waves will forget the ocean
And wander their way up to the shore
One day the moon will quit being the watchman
Forget just who she's shining for

Oh, these bones will carry me home

One day these mountains will tire of standing
Drop their shoulders into the sand
One day the wind will give up its last breath
Go drifting off to some promised land

Oh, these bones will carry me home

One day the fire will give up its ashes
And weave their way through the open air
One day the rain will cover us up, darling
We'll drink and dance like there's no one there

One day the winter will give up its shaking
And lay itself by an open flame
One day the stars will stop flickering off
On and off and on and off
On and off and on again

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Sweet Heat Lightning

Monsters beneath your bed
What's real, what's in your head

Moon's out
My mother's house is empty
Come and find me now

Sweet heat lightning falls
Blue crack of light and that's all
Calling you to sing
Calling you to sing

You drive, let's see where this ends
Let's let the wheels wear out

Sweet heat lightning falls
Blue crack of light and that's all
Calling you to sing

Calling you

Calling you to sing
Calling you to sing

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Feed Your Horses

The city, they say, is on fire
You've been searching the big lights, searching the skies
You jump to the ballroom in that white wedding gown
I'll feed your horses when you go into town

You say love's a speeding train you gotta catch
You've been searching the subways for the perfect match
You comb through the corners of the old Lost and found
I'll feed your horses when you're looking around

Ageless, ageless, you know it is
Take this old heart of mine
I know you'll know what to do with it

Your crooked heart has left you to roam
Looking for love, you forget to come home
I'll wait for you, darling, like grain in the ground
I'll feed your horses, oh, I'll feed your horses
Yeah, and I'll feed your horses when you go into town