Marissa Nadler

Mayflower May Without a lover Without a friend Without a savior Without a friend Without a lover Without a friend Mayflower walked away Away towards the air And if you see her Call out her name And if you hear her Out in the rain Mayflower Maybelle I

My love and I Were walking down the road In a dream that I had not so many years ago And if my red blood will cease to flow Your ghost may come where I will go See you're as good as dead to me My holy ghost my savior tree And if my red blood will cea

Thinking of you All through the morning I'm thinking of you All through the evening I'm thinking of you And the way that your holy water grew I met a girl under the water It made me recall how I wanted a daughter But you never gave me nothing that I

Rachel Oh what a day to dance with you Oh what a day to die I held you once in the palm of my hand And a fine old time it was Rachel I fear your death will come And leave me alone to die Rachel I fear your death will come And gone to the dogs and the

Where did you go When the snow fell that year you were inside these wooden walls like a bear eager child for the end in your lair for the end of the year And that old familiar fear creeps up your little arms and runs through your veins like blood thr

Oh, to find Another lover Oh, to lie In the bed of another Breaking the bread And raising the silver there With you And I dreamed your face In the Mexican summer With Texas above To die with my brother Breaking the bread And raising the silver there

Yellow lights are free and gladly Light the shadow grey behind me Can you help her walk away again Blue the colour of the water Mary and her devil-daughter Drinking rubies in the rain again Oh Mary Don't you die Oh Mary Don't you die Cause of the col

Dying Breed Red is the colour of memory Blue is the way to green And darling you did gamble 'Cause you were a dying breed Yes, you were a dying breed Yellow, the colour of your skin Black was the colour of your hair Your earthly days have passed you

You were gone and I was gone and all of the flowers were dead and gone And all of the things that I had, were songs again Weaving the scent of the loss of your heart from they are to meant Life seems so empty without you, my friend Heartpaper lover A

If you ain't made it now you'll never gonna make it 17 people in the dark tonight You see some familiar faces behind the cellular lights Child town in the winter Used to drink more than your man could Waiting for the light Waiting for the light Waiti

Bird on your grave Tomorrow I'm gonna leave a bird on your grave And say a little prayer for you Kyle says you've been dead for a couple of months And I've been thinking your still here my friend And I still have your songs in my head And your face e

I was your lover You were my plan I told you that you were My sun and my sand But right away Get a circus job And I'd fly away El Camino, take me home El Camino, take me home You are a jester And I am an elf And I'm sad to the books That are stocked

1923 - Marissa Nadler Nineteen twenty three He sent a letter and it reached me Some things never change Be it a river or be it your name I call to you from another century To see it, the world had been kind and sweet And it really seems that the shad

So do you know I'm a dancer now With red painted lips, and a jezebel crown So have you heard, I'm a singer now With reliquary eyes, and a diadem frown But I look for you In the diamond trees And the highway divine Deliver me Your father died A month

Say hello to the sea Or to the lonely water Say hello to the sea Under the skies of azure And I met him yesterday Under my old umbrella And I met him yesterday Under the skies of azure And turquoise was the color of his eyes And bitter were the color

Will you play your famous song your little song, your lovely song? Will you play your famous song for me? I loved all the things he saw the little warbirds in the dark I loved the things he saw the ways in which the water fall ooh ooh ooh Will you pl

Mayflower was a girl Who came from my room With a box of faded feathers And her leather made shoes But you know when she goes She'll be crying Cause she died all alone With her feathers and bows I was just a lonely thing When I met Mr. Bear And he lo

Lily was a maiden in the castle sea They found her in the forest Where the wild willows be Lily was a maiden in the castle sea They found her in the forest Where the wild willows be Singing, Don't plead me, no For I will seize you in the snow Singing

Flowers died a long time ago my friend and they're hanging on the wall with wax and thread When you were young did you think it would ever end? When you were young did you think it would ever end? Sylvia was a girl that I knew best and she wore the f

It's a beautiful day and I went for a walk but I saw that old dirt path where we used to talk where is the rain cause some spring lovers are bringing me down again the years have come and your hands have gone but your land is something lost in a song