True Sadness The Avett Brothers

make men out of monsters 'Cause I still wake up shaken by dreams And I hate to say it but the way it seems Is that no one is fine Take the time to peel a few layers and you will find True sadness Adam

A Gift For Melody Anne The Avett Brothers

I wanna get back I wanna get square I wanna get back on the hopes and dreams that I had That the good lord above us can spare Like that actor said I don't wanna lose heart I don't wanna get beat beat down

My Last Song To Jenny The Avett Brothers

Oh tell me please that I don't have to read between the lines Hey this is me and you don't have to keep something heavy on your mind Did you sleep?

Paul Newman Vs. The Demons The Avett Brothers

You may have to drag me away from my demons Kicking and screaming It's been so long now, I've been with them Don't know where they stop and I begin We draw a line in the sand Will you cross it

You Are Mine The Avett Brothers

You are mine The edge I need when I am out of line The air I breathe when I believe I'm dying I guess you are there It is told With age our hearts are destined to grow cold Well I won't argue that but

Nothing Short Of Thankful The Avett Brothers

How I need (rest) One more day of travel on the road. How we've been (blessed) Some times I don't feel that way. Nothing's gonna change my mind, I'm walkin' a different highway.

Laser Pants The Avett Brothers

Seth Avett: Fire laser pants at will. Scott Avett: Fire laser pants at will? Seth Avett: I will try. Scott Avett: Don't get 'em mixed up with your lazy pants.

Offering The Avett Brothers

others And I've loved others too But I loved them cause they were stepping stones On a staircase to you Sometimes I act foolish I don't know what to do Please babe try not to judge me For my offering is true

Colorshow (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Be loud let your colors show Try to keep the madness low If they hear and it's wrong And they come with torches on Yeah come on Be loud let your colors show Try to keep the madness low I tell them no with

January Wedding The Avett Brothers

And I've already asked her So in January we're gettin' married She's talkin' to me with her voice Down so low I barely hear her But I know what she's sayin' I understand because my heart and hers are the

February Seven The Avett Brothers

I went on the search for something true I was almost there when I found you Sooner than my fate was wrote A perfect blade, it slit my throat And beads of lust released in to the air When I awoke you

Distraction #74 (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

I was in love with your beauty from the day you walked my way Oh how I wish that was enough to have made me want to stay See I'm as true as I try to be and I must say my girl I tried the best to give to

No Hard Feelings The Avett Brothers

anymore And it finally lets me free Will I be ready When my feet won't walk another mile And my lips give their last kiss goodbye Will my hands be steady When I lay down my fears My hopes and my doubts The

Divorce Separation Blues The Avett Brothers

fire Ever since we've been apart Well I'm gonna wash the dishes Pay the bills and watch the news I've got the tough education No celebration Divorce separation blues Yodel eh hee yodelo lodi lay he yodel

SSS The Avett Brothers

never thought I'd feel Feel the way I do When I'm in your arms ba da ba ba Sing your melody to me And if you want me to leave I'd walk away from this old farm ba da ba ba Baby, baby, There ain't no cows

Slight Figure Of Speech The Avett Brothers

They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting They say that this is where the fun begins I guess it's time that I was quitting A slight figure of speech I

Ain't No Man The Avett Brothers

There ain't no man can't save me There ain't no man can't enslave me Ain't no man, a man that can change the shape my soul is in There ain't nobody here who can cause me pain or raise my fear Cause I got

Satan Pulls The Strings The Avett Brothers

Baby's in the cradle, Mama's in the bed Sparrow's on the windowsill and the devil's in my head Devil's in my head mama, devil's in my head Baby's in the cradle and the devil's in my head When the winter

Down With The Shine The Avett Brothers

Down with the shine the perfect shine That poisons the well and ruins my mind I get took for a ride every time Down with the glistening shine It's in with the new and out with the old Out goes the warm

Letter To A Pretty Girl The Avett Brothers

highway East of Roanoke We had a moment That felt like summer Now in slumber I can see your smile We drive for miles Through corporate Ohio Rest stops in West Virginia Traffic in Washington DC But of all the

Kick Drum Heart The Avett Brothers

The footprints over the snow the fabric of all the lonely C Covering only the fables and hands the rest is out in the cold holding the last of the seas F F F freezin' Yeah My my my heart like a

Kick Drum Heart (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

The footprints over the snow the fabric of all the lonely C Covering only the fables and hands the rest is out in the cold holding the last of the season F F F freezin' Yeah My my my heart like a kick

A Fathers First Spring The Avett Brothers

The sweetest surrender of winter She put up a flag it is waving The thunder of summer is rumbling in And I haven't seen you in days And my how that feeling has changed Oh I have been homesick for you since

Talk On Indolence (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Well I've been lockin' myself up in my house for sometime now Readin' and writin' and readin' and thinkin' And searching for reasons and missing the seasons The Autumn the Spring the Summer the snow The

The Ballad Of Love And Hate (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Love writes a letter and sends it to hate My vacations ending I'm coming home late The weather was fine and the ocean was great and I can't wait to see you again Hate reads the letter and throws it away

Winter In My Heart The Avett Brothers

It must be winter in my heart There\'s nothing warm in there at all I missed the summer and the spring The floating yellow leaves of fall A million colors fill my eyes The roman candles and the stars

The Traveling Song The Avett Brothers

Well I guess if my daddy hadn't brought me up Down a long dirt road in a pickup truck I'd feel alright, 'neath the city lights Couldn't leave the city lights it just ain't right I was born out west of

At The Beach The Avett Brothers

I know that you're smiling, baby, I don't even need to see your face Sunset at the shoreline, we are laughing, breaking up, Just like the waves Are you feeling, feeling, feeling like I'm, feeling Like

The Perfect Space The Avett Brothers

I wanna have friends that I can trust that love me for the man I've become not the man I was I wanna have friends that will let me be all alone when being alone is all that I need I wanna fit in to the

Signs The Avett Brothers

"It's the place and your friends that got me down Tellin' me I should not hang around There's a sign in the window Tellin' me I've got to go I see the signs everyday In your face and in the way

Love Like The Movies The Avett Brothers

So you want to be in love like the movies But in the movies they're not in love at all And with a twinkle in their eyes They're just saying their lines So we can't be in love like the movies Now in the

And It Spread The Avett Brothers

There was light in the room. Then you left and it was through. Then the frost started in my toes and fingertips. and it spread and it spread into my heart.

The Perfect Space (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

I wanna have friends that I can trust that love me for the man I've become not the man I was I wanna have friends that will let me be all alone when being alone is all that I need I wanna fit in to the

The Once And Future Carpenter The Avett Brothers

a carpenter and man my hands were calloused I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight But I took to the highway a poet young and hungry And I left the timbers where they lay Forever I will move like

Live And Die The Avett Brothers

All it'll take is just one moment and You can say goodbye to how we had it planned Fear like a habit, run like a rabbit, out and away Through the screen door to the unknown And I want to love you

I And Love And You The Avett Brothers

Load the car and write the note Grab your bag and grab your coat Tell the ones that need to know We are headed north One foot in and one foot back But it don't pay to live like that So I cut the

I And Love And You (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Load the car and write the note Grab your bag and grab your coat Tell the ones that need to know We are headed north One foot in and one foot back But it don't pay to live like that So I cut the ties and

Murder In The City (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

If I get murdered in the city Don’t go revengin in my name One person dead from such is plenty No need to go get locked away When I leave your arms The things that I think of No need to get over alarmed

Mama, I Don't Believe The Avett Brothers

I lay here pretending to sleep Someone's always asking for something of me I try to hide but I'm stripped of my strength Bound by the truth, bored by the speed And the promise of the fortune it brings

Pretty Girl From Michigan The Avett Brothers

You gave your heart away like that I didn’t want to fall in love with anyone but you dear I can still hear the song, the melody behind the kiss you gave me You were wrong, I was right so I walked away

Tin Man The Avett Brothers

you can't be like me but be happy that you can't I see pain but I don't feel it I am like the old tin man I'm as worn as a stone I keep it steady as I can I see pain but I don't feel it I am like

Smoke In Our Lights The Avett Brothers

You're not a girl, you're a town You're snow on the ground You're my first year in school You're the words in a song that Hoon sang to me And all around my memories, you dance You're not a girl, you're

Please Pardon Yourself The Avett Brothers

As I turn my head to your side of the bed While you wake, What's on your mind?

Laundry Room The Avett Brothers

Don't push me out Just a little longer Stall your mother Disregard your father's words Close the laundry door Tiptoe across the floor Keep your clothes on I got all that I can take Teach me how to use

The New Love Song The Avett Brothers

Elegant and soft Feminine as you ought One with earth and one with God Won't you please forgive me Won't you please forgive me As the daylight sinks As I fail to stop and think Once I cursed the things

Life The Avett Brothers

love comes from it We’re not of this world for long Faith and promise keep me honest When starvation falls upon us Daylight told me here I'd be Gone with cold words spoke among hers Wretched in the

I Killed Sally's Lover The Avett Brothers

Somebody get my blade Sally's been layin' with another man And he's sleeping in my place Somebody get my shotgun Gonna shoot him sure as rain You can run as fast as you want to boy I'll kill you just the

I Killed Sally's Lover (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

Somebody get my blade Sally's been layin' with another man And he's sleeping in my place Somebody get my shotgun Gonna shoot him sure as rain You can run as fast as you want to boy I'll kill you just the

Salvation Song The Avett Brothers

If you take my heart Don't leave the smallest part I've no need to live if you're to come up gone An as my life turns to a song And if and when I treat you wrong No I never want to hurt our family And

Salvation Song (Live At Bojangles' Coliseum/2009) The Avett Brothers

If you take my heart Don't leave the smallest part I've no need to live if you're to come up gone An as my life turns to a song And if and when I treat you wrong No I never want to hurt our family And