First aid kit

Now the pale morning sings of forgotten things
She plays a tune for those who wish to overlook
The fact that they've been blindly deceived
By those who preach and pray and teach
But she falls short and the night explodes in laughter

But don't you come here and say I didn't warn you
About the way your world can alter
And oh how you try to command it all still
Every single time it all shifts one way or the other

And I'm a goddamn coward, but then again so are you
And the lion's roar, the lion's roar
Has me evading and hollering for you
And I never really knew what to do

Well I guess sometimes I wish you were a little more predictable
That I could read you just like a book
For now I can only guess what's coming next
By examining your timid smile
And the ways of the old, old winds blowing you back 'round

And I'm a goddamn fool, but then again so are you
And the lion's roar, the lion's roar
Has me seeking out and searching for you
And I never really knew what to do

Sometimes I wish I could find my Rosemary Hill
I'd sit there and look at the deserted lakes and I'd sing
And every once in a while I'd sing a song for you
That would rise above the mountains and the stars and the sea
And if I wanted it to it would lead you back to me

And the lion's roar, the lion's roar
Is something that I have heard before
A children's tale, the lonesome wail of a lion's roar

Oh, the bitter winds
Are coming in
And I'm already missing the summer

Stockholm's cold
But I've been told
I was born to endure this kind of weather

When it's you I find
Like a ghost in my mind
I am defeated and I gladly wear the crown

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too
No, I'm not asking much of you
Just sing, little darling, sing with me

Now so much I know
That things just don't grow
If you don't bless them with your patience

And I've been there before
I held up the door
For every stranger with a promise

But I'm holding back
That's the strength that I lack
Every morning keeps returning at my window

And it brings me to you
And I won't just pass through
But I'm not asking for a storm

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too
No, I'm not asking much of you
Just sing, little darling, sing with me

And yes, I might have lied to you
But you wouldn't benefit from knowing the truth
I was frightened but I held fast
I need you now at long last

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too
No, I'm not asking much of you
Just sing, little darling, sing with me

I'll be your Emmylou and I'll be your June
If you'll be my Gram and my Johnny too
No, I'm not asking much of you
Just sing, little darling, sing with me
Just sing, little darling, sing with me

In the hearts of men
In the arms of mothers
In the parts we play to convince others
We know what we're doing
We're doing it right

May have written books on the subject
But then you may still be surprised
by your tone over the phone
to your sister while waiting in line
at the shopping mall just outside a town

In the hands of teachers
In the books you read
The things you say when we're lost the lead
I still try to speak up but my voice won't make a sound
And I thought it all over too many times

But when there is no use
And the lights are all out
I just give it up and I walk home
Past the shopping mall
That's just closing down

Will you tell yourself,
you all must be what you'll be
Who's to say who is who and what is what
If you simply don't agree
Now, time will come to claim you
And it will have its way
Don't make mistakes and don't regret
Don't waste the time that is left
And then do it all with a goddamn smile

In the hearts of men
In the arms of mothers
In the parts we play to convince others

In the morning on the train
You sit and stare at the rain
Or bury yourself in your books
Don't look at no strangers
No, don't give them any looks

But you ask yourself, why you're so afraid
Why you hesitate when someone asks your name
But they'll come too close if you tell them the truth
Who's to say they want something from you

But you're just a shell of
Your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that's you
Why'd you look so blue?

And the only man you ever loved
You thought was gonna marry you
Died in a car accident when he was only 22
Then you just decided, love wasn't for you
And every year since then
Has proved it to be true

But you're just a shell of
Your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that's you
Why'd you look so blue?

Maybe tomorrow you will make a change
Maybe someday soon you will find the strength

But you're just a shell of
Your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that's you
Why'd you look so blue?

So you come on home, walk through the door
She's in the kitchen searching through the drawers
So you stop and watch her and ask what she's looking for
She says she's not sure

And it gets late and you turned off the lights
Her body's so close to you in the night
But you dare not touch her and you don't wanna fight, so you just say,
"goodnight."

This old routine will drive you mad
It's just a mumble never spoken out loud
And sometimes you don't even know why you loved her
Well you look at her now, and you see why

And your youngest is out fighting a war
But he won't say what he's fighting for
If he's gone because of war for you, in which you rather be true

This old routine will drive you mad
It's just a mumble never spoken out loud
Sometimes you can't even recall the sound of his laughter
Oh, well did you ever really know the sound?

This old routine will drive you mad
It's just a mumble never spoken out loud
Sometimes you don't even know how you're still standing
Well she looks at you now, and you see how
Well you look at her now, and you know how

And you said: Don't give me nothing
You don't want to lose
I said: Darling, I'll give you everything I got
If I want them to choose

Then I got on a plane and flew
Far away from you
Though unwillingly I left
And it was so, so hard to do

The streets here at home had rapidly filled up
With the whitest of snow
And they don't make no excuse for themselves
And there's no need, I know

Now I miss you more than I can take
And I will surely break
And every morning that I wake
God, it's the same
There's nothing more to it
I just get through it
Oh, there's nothing more to it
I just get through it

It always takes me by surprise
How dark it gets this time of the year
And how apparent it all becomes
That you're not close, not even near

No matter how many times I tell myself
I have to be sincere
I have a hard time standing up
And facing those fears

But Frank put it best when he said
You can't plan on the heart
Those words keep me on my feet
When I think I might just fall apart

Now I miss you more than I can take
And I will surely break
And every morning that I wake
God, it's the same
There's nothing more to it
I just get through it
Oh, there's nothing more to it
I just get through it
Oh, there's nothing more to it
I just get through it

And so I ask where are you now
Just when I needed you
I won't ask again
Because I know there's nothing we can do
Not now, darling, you know it's true

It's me, it's me, you've come to take
My duality awakes
By midnight time I could not see
If I were you or you were me

We play the game with skillful hands
And so I asked for your demands
Give me your love, give me your thumb
And he traced us back to where we begun

So the morning came
And swept the night away
As I was looking for
A way to disappear
Amongst the quiet things
And all these empty streets
I found a way, I found a way
To reappear

I'll follow you
Where you go
Yes, I'll be there
Just so you know
I need your condolence
And your trust
But I won't ask
Won't ask for much

There's a heavy load upon our backs
Of things we carry from the past
My guilt-filled mind, it tried to run
But it traced us back to where we begun

So the morning came
And swept the night away
As I was looking for
A way to disappear
Amongst the quiet things
And all these empty streets
I found a way, I found a way
To reappear

I'll follow you
Where you go
Yes, I'll be there
Just so you know
I need your condolence
And your trust
But I won't ask
Won't ask for much

I'll only ask for so much
No, I won't ask, won't ask for much

So the morning came
Swept the night away
I found a way
I found a way
To reappear

Will you look at me?
Take a good look at me
And tell me who it is that I am
This old mirror it is broken
There's too much drift in the dam

It's not the world that's spinning, that's me
I go from nowhere to nowhere searching for the key
But there's nothing new under the Sun
All that will happen has already begun

Will you savor this in your mind?
This old feeling, when you're left behind
Will you hold to this as true
Or will you dance to another tune?

I was watching for a long time
As people crossed the street
Some heavy sadness weighed upon me
As I sat silent in the car seat

Shadows with that same look upon their faces
A child will die that nobody embraces
Everything gets tiresome, everything grows old
With each secret revealed, there's another to be told

Will you savor this in your mind?
This old feeling, when you're left behind
Will you hold to this as true
Or will you dance to another tune?

Will you look at me?
Take a good look at me and tell me who
It is that I am

Well it's a new year, with it comes more than new fears
Met a young man who was in tears, he asked me
"what induces us to stay here?"
I said, "I don't know much and I'm not lying,
But I think you just have to keep on trying."

And I know I am naive, but if anything
That's what's going to save me
That's what's going to save me

Took a stroll around the neighborhood where the trees are swaying
People passed in cars with their windows down, with a pop song playing
A man walked by, walking back and forth the street with a drunken smile to go along
He stopped to look at me and say, "child, don't fear doing things wrong."

Yet I am still afraid but if anything
That's what's going to save me
That's what's going to save me

Now I have a lot to learn and I'm starting tonight
Got to stop looking at things like they're black and they're white
Got to write more songs of a little more, treat my friends better
Got to stop worrying about everything to the letter
And sometimes when it's too hard to get up
It just might be a little call apart

But I find it hard to believe, but if anything
That's what's going to save me
That's what's going to save me

Tell me, tell me
Oh, what's going to save me?

At ten in the morning
I was laughing at something
At the airport terminal
At nine in the evening
I was sitting crying to you over the phone
Well passing the border from a state to another
Filled with people whom I couldn't help to relate to
And we stopped a while at a roadside restaurant
Where the waitress was sitting outside smoking in her car
She had that look of, fear in her eyes
And as we drove away from there she looked at me and
She smiled

I keep running around
Trying to find the ground
But my head is in the stars
My feet are in the sky
Well I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world

Well once you asked me well what's my biggest fear
That things would always remain so unclear
That one day I'd wake up all alone
With a big family and emptiness sleeping in my bones
That I would be so blinded, turn into fear
And that my fake laugh would suddenly sound sincere

Now I wasn't born for anything
Wasn't born to say anything
I'm just here now and soon I'll be gone
I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world

Now everyday there's a
While I sleep they start dimming the lights
Well I've seen everything I ever want to see
Screaming fire in the theater, people taking their seats
Watch it all go down like the stone in the stream
Fall for your reflection, drown in the tree

Tell me something real
Tell me something true
I just want to feel there's something left that I can do
But I'm nobody's baby
I'm everybody's girl
I'm the queen of nothing
I'm the king of the world

Wolf mother, where you been?
You look so worn, so thin
You're a taker, devil's maker
Let me hear you sing, hey ya hey ya

Wolf father, at the door
You don't smile anymore
You're a drifter, shapeshifter
Let me see you run, hey ya hey ya

Holy light, oh, burn the night, oh keep the spirits strong
Watch it grow, child of wolf, keep holdin' on

When I run through the deep dark forest long after this begun
Where the sun would set, the trees were dead and the rivers were none
And I hope for a trace to lead me back home from this place
But there was no sound, there was only me and my disgrace

Hey, hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey-hey, hey ya

Wolf mother, where you been?
You look so worn, so thin
You're a taker, devil's maker
Let me hear you say, hey ya hey ya

Wolf father, at the door
You don't smile anymore
You're a drifter, shapeshifter
Let me see you run, hey ya hey ya

Wayward winds, the voice that sings of a forgotten land
See it fall, child of wolf, lend a mending hand

When I run through the deep dark forest long after this begun
Where the sun would set, the trees were dead and the rivers were none
And I hope for a trace to lead me back home from this place
But there was no sound, there was only me and my disgrace

Hey, hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey-hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey-hey, hey ya

Marianne stood by the window
Looking out on the street as the cars sail by
Knew you, wondered if he was
Going to magically reappear,
Step out of his car,
Running to your arms, Marianne

Could wait for a sign but you're just killing time
And it's killing you too
Well you can't put behind,
It'll stay in your mind and it'll haunt you
Down, down, down

He was, he was your only son
Like you were your mother's only daughter
You had to believe when they said
He didn't leave because of you or me
But because he saw no other way, Marianne

Could wait for a sign but you're just killing time
And it's killing you too
Well you can't put behind,
It'll stay in your mind and it'll haunt you
Down, down, down
And I'm not looking for a reason, I'm looking for truth
But if I find it meanwhile it could be
Of good use, but there is no use
No use in
Blaming yourself, it won't lead to anything, Marianne

But what good does this song
But what good does convincing
I'm not waiting for you to get over this
This emptiness and fear, it won't cease to exist
I just wish that you would come to see
That everything is the way it must be
And if I am wrong, Marianne, you may call me a liar

So i could just sit here
Listening to the breeze
Say were all gonna die that curable disease
So i'm ready to be taken wherever it takes me to
But i'd rather just sit here
Waiting for you

So look
See here
This is all that i am
Some amateur painting
In a golden frame
Forgive me
Forgive me
Is all i have left
I guess i just needed a friend

Words that once sounded sweet
To my ears
Hold me close
I am full of these fears
Here where i stutter and shake
Only a mistake

Now we can play dress up!
Yes, i'll play the part
I'll stand up and laugh at my own frightened heart

Haha! haha!
Ain't it absurd how things can turn?
It's these kinds of nights
I forget the lessons i've learned

So look
See here
This is all that you are
I tried to find out how broke down these walls
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
It had to be that way
I guess i just needed a friend

Words that once sounded sweet
To my ears
Hold me closer
I am full of these fears
Here where i stutter and shake
Only a mistake
Words that once sounded sweet
To my ears
Hold me close
I am full of these fears
Here where i stutter and shake
Only a mistake
Words that once sounded sweet
To my ears
Hold me close
I am full of these fears
Here where i stutter and shake
Only a mistake