Our Swan Song Lyrics

OUR SWAN SONG LP

© Laura Jean 2006

The Hunter’s Ode

I tried to trap you
like a hunter
traps a black bear

You outsmarted me
so we began a courting
based on outsmarting

I’ll take no woman friend
I’ll go to no town
La la la la la la la
And you’ll hide in no damn cave
all through the winter
La la la la la la la

It’s very tiring
alone in the forest land
hunting, hunting

I saw you in a clearing
I could have caught you
You could have hurt me

I’ll take no woman friend
I’ll go to no town
La la la la la la la
And you’ll hide in no damn cave
all through the winter
La la la la la la la

That bright morning
we forgot our calling
and we rested in the grass

We’re a team of fairy tales
living in the fair hills
with the sky the woods and the river

I’ll take no woman friend
I’ll go to no town
La la la la la la la
And you’ll hide in no damn cave
all through the winter
La la la la la la la

Don’t you take no woman in
she wouldn’t understand us
La la la la la la
I will hide in no damn cave
run from no clearing
La la la la la la la la la.

The Mid Way

We’ve been called up
Tonight’s the last in our own beds
Either side of the road is dark
In this last pure rest we lay heart to heart

Come on, come on, take the mid way
where the lights shine
If you don’t walk the way beside me
It’s all a waste of time

Don’t you lay like that
with your back to me
I know this is hard for you
but every time you hold on to me
whilst the sea roars over us
a part of us is married

Come on, come on, take the mid way
where the lights shine
If we don’t walk the way together
I’m a waste of your time
and you’re a waste of my time

Come on
I’m so fucking tired
how many painful times
laboured nights?
Take me home so I won’t need noone

We’ve been called up to shine
but it takes such a long time
If we all walk the way together
cruel beast or kind
the Caller we’ll find
A Good Thing

You wouldn’t know a good thing
if you fell over it in the street
In the middle of the road
The frog and toad, the hunter’s ode
fuck you and the horse you rode in on

You wouldn’t know a good thing
if you fell over it in the street

Boy, you’re so industry
Let someone else go and get the drinks
in case you lose your good seat
You wanted to rock when you were 16
but you couldn’t sing
so now you sit on the sidelines
delegating me

You wouldn’t know a good thing
if you fell over it in the street
You wouldn’t know a good thing
if you fell over it
what am I doing here

Waiting by the phone
like I’ve got a crush
and it’s crushing me

But hey, it’s all happening
If I’d have known all this three years ago
I’d be the gladdest of glad things
but being glad’s for when you’re done
Despite all the love around me now
this little girl still wants the big one

I wouldn’t know a good thing if I fell over it in the street

I Don’t Know

I don’t know
what it’s like to drift along
When people ask me what I want
I let them know

I didn’t mean to scare that lovely girl
she said she wants to travel the world
but when money’s tight it’s hard to feel free
and when you’re feeling lost
then where do you leave from?

I don’t know
what it’s like to drift along
When people ask me what I want
I let them know

There is a man that’s close to me
He wants to sail the seven seas
I hope he won’t leave me behind
Fly a while sail home if you’re still alive

I don’t know
what it’s like to drift along
When people ask me what I want
I let them know

I think she knows exactly what is what
You don’t need to leave home to know that
but I went on and on about my plans
as though they’d guide her to safe land

I don’t know
what it’s like to drift along
When people ask me what I want
I let them know

Remember that man I told you about?
His seven seas are all around
He’s a pirate but the sailors don’t know
that white sail flies into my home
that drifter, I love him so

I don’t know
what it’s like to drift along
When people ask me what I want
I tell them
how could I ever know?

The Ferry

In the evening
me and my girl
would catch the ferry
to my Dad’s house

The moon was the main thing
It changed everything
as we looked at
the hill approaching

All the great big houses
from that distance
looked like gravestones
in a garden

It was so romantic
all that was missing
was a tower
with a funeral bell chiming

The breeze melted out hearts
all us wild ones
sitting outside
on the ferry to my Dad’s house

I’m A Rabbit, I’m A Fox

Finding my path through the crowd
like a rip in the tide
like a trail on the hillside

Dodging the flock their heads to the ground
They don’t look up to the field
I want to scare them with a sound

I’m a rabbit, I’m a rabbit, I’m a fox
I’m a rabbit, I’m a rabbit, I’m a fox

I’m a lion pretending not to care
throwing glances like a spy
so lazy I don’t need to try

There’s something very, very sad about a girl
who wants to put on all her fur
alone forever

I’m a rabbit, I’m a rabbit, I’m a fox
I’m a rabbit, I’m a rabbit, I’m a fox

Nesting in roots
burrowing down
Losing my sight
I don’t need that now
Other senses grow
other senses change
Oh no, I’m not hearing things

I’m a mole
I’m a moth
I’m a rabbit, I’m a rabbit, I’m a fox

My life spans only a few years
Got to make the most of life
while I am here

So I’m just a girl on the door step to your room
and I’m writing a tune
I write them all for you

I’m a rabbit
I’m a lion
I’m a fox
I’m a tiger
I’m a mole
I’m a moth

It’s Supposed To Be Summer

I keep waking up
3:15am
Trying to figure out
how the light gets in
Some say God’s a light
that you can’t explain
I’m pulling down the blind
To get some more sleep in

It’s supposed to be summer
I’m just starting to feel it
When you say that you love me
I’m starting to think that you mean it

When I wake again
I know it’s getting late
Because I always have a strange dream
from ‘round 4 until 8
Do you ever dream about another girl?
Well I would break into your dream
You don’t really care about her

It’s supposed to be summer
I’m just starting to feel it
When you say that you love me
I’m starting to think that you mean it

Don’t you listen to them
They just want to control you
You are so right
they could never improve you
If they saw you in the morning
pretending to be asleep
if they saw you like I did
they would just let you be

It’s supposed to be summer
when you say that you love me

Don’t you listen to me
when I’m scared I just want to control you
You are so right
what I’m trying to say is
I love you too

Paradise Lost

In this dream I had I ruled a kingdom
I ruled because I had a holy vision
of paradise lost, lost, lost
Paradise lost

I dreaded losing all my power
I made the men build me a viewing tower
so only I could see my paradise lost

I took joy in imagining their faces
Their eyes half closed
in love with the land’s grace

but they will never see my paradise lost

I locked the tower
I locked it tightly
But one day someone was waiting up there for me
He said I saw you
I saw you in paradise lost

There I was just a blade of grass
My crown fell off and smashed like glass
The tower’s flag was raised half mast
Paradise, paradise lost

I took joy in imagining their faces
Their eyes downcast, my fall from grace
but I’ve gone to a better place
Paradise
Paradise at last

Happiness

Sometimes
I feel like my life’s a peacekeeping exercise
between my minds
It doesn’t make up at night
When I go to sleep it’s still alive

I just can’t express
love in a way
that’s going to cause us happiness

Yesterday
we talked about our relationship
like someone else was having it
Do you think
they would just walk away
or stay on the brink?

I just can’t express
love in a way
that’s going to cause us happiness

I didn’t put any bait on my fishing line
I just wanted to relax
Like people relax

Why, why, why do you stay?
You should listen to your little man
run as fast as you can
I’m not one for peace
You know that after contentment
the human story always ends

I just can’t express
love in a way
that’s going to cause us happiness

The sun hit my eye
at exactly the right time
I want to give you dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing

I want to express love in a way that’s going to cause us happiness
I want to express love in a way that’s going to cause us happiness

Solace

I don’t want solace
I don’t want solace

I don’t want to be with my friends
We help each other forget
we’ll all meet the same end
our raw hearts with no defence

We’ll all be alone then
I don’t want solace from them

I might seem hard and cruel
a bitter face in a dark room
but how can you say you’re in it with me
When there’s only one mind
one skull in here

Please don’t lie to my face
I don’t want solace

Deer in my ribs instead of a heart
Chasing it ‘round the cage for a lark
Hunting it ‘round in the park
So beautiful I held it too hard
I want that tenderness
I don’t want solace

Our Swan Song

How is an hour any different to a year
in this moment sitting here
I decided not to go along
I came back here and wrote this song
I stood at the side of our road
walked up our stairs and looked out our window
felt lonely in our heart
and on this song I made a start

The chorus line
usually writes itself
I don’t mind
being here by myself
I don’t mind now

We’ve got no chair in our room
My sister always laughs when she comes down
about how poor she thinks we are
I just sit on the floor to play my guitar
Let’s live alone together again
Let’s never joke about just being friends
I think I’d last about an hour
before asking you to be my lover

The chorus line
usually writes itself
I don’t mind
being here by myself
I don’t mind now

but it’s funny how
when you’re not there
I feel like I made the whole thing
up in my head