Laura Veirs
salvage a smile
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Dead eye from the wood of life
Hold the ropes and the rigging lines
Red-eye a.m. Here i lie
Shipwreck passing underneath
What of the sailor and her spinning wheel?
What was she thinking being
Swallowed by the water whole?
Red on the left, green on the right
You can see me coming in the morning light
Brass and glass and rusted iron
Sextant here for the heavenly bodies
Compass here but the needle's shot
Magnetic deviation screws me up
Break the glass from your hanging lanterns
Break the sea with your blackened anchors
And you might end up a floating junk pile
But you can always scramble to salvage a smile
- Album:
- Warp and Weft
- Tumble Bee
- July Flame
- Two Beers Veirs
- Miscellaneous
- Hello I Must Be Going (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
- Hello I Must Be Going
- Acoustic Love Songs, Vol. 2
- Songs (The Very Best of Acoustic)
- Bella Union: A Sampler
- America
- Sun Song
- Warp & Weft
- OpenLab Morning, Vol. 1 (Mixed By Robert Miles)
- Love Indie Rock 2
- America - Single
- Sun Song - Single
- Spex-CD #100
- Carbon Glacier
- Uncut 2004.06: 15-track Pick of the Best Recent Music