Future Islands - Singles Album Lyrics

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Seasons (Waiting On You)

Seasons change,
And I tried hard just to soften you
Seasons change,
But I've grown tired of trying to change for you

Cause I've been waiting on you
I've been waiting on you
Cause I've been waiting on you
I've been waiting on you

As it breaks, the summer will wake
But the winter will wash what is left of the taste
As it breaks, the summer will warm
But the winter will crave what is gone
Will crave what has all... gone away

People change,
You know but some people never do
You know when people change
They gain a peace but they lose one too

Cause I've been hanging on you
I've been waiting on you
Cause I've been waiting on you
I've been hanging on you

As it breaks, the summer will wake
But the winter will wash what is left of the taste
As it breaks, the summer will warm
But the winter will crave what is gone
Will crave what is gone
Will crave what has all... gone away

 

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Spirit

Trusted, repeated
Candor, uneven - in it's the will to find
The right design
The form belongs, to no one
Holding truth

Come see me through
Come through the sea
To share
And bare
The light inside of you

Don't cast away, don't cast away
Don't let them cast a role for you

Find the sun, force the moon
Loose the earth
For dreams come to those who let them in their guarded room
Open wide your winged-eye
Spirit drives - to catch the truth
For spirit thrives where darkness comes to challenge you

Be more than words
Be more than strength and kind
Be love and blind
To those who come to you

Sing something new
Belief is wet and ghost
Yet, loves the most of what we do

Don't cast away, don't cast away
Don't let them cast a role for you

Find the sun, force the moon
Loose the earth
For dreams come to those who let them in their guarded room
Open wide your winged-eye
Spirit drives - to catch the truth
For spirit thrives where darkness comes to challenge you

Those winter days
Those winter nights
Those days and those nights

Come see me through
Come through the sea
To bare
And share
The light inside of you

Don't cast away, don't cast away
Don't let them cast a role for you

Find the sun, force the moon
Loose the earth
For dreams come to those who let them in their guarded room
Open wide your winged-eye
Spirit drives - to catch the truth
For spirit thrives where darkness comes to challenge you

Challenge you, challenge you
Challenge You

 

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Sun In The Morning

Mine all mine
Wander
Away we go
Over lines
I won't let go, she knows why
She feeds my soul
She feeds my mind

Sun in the morning
Mu sun, every morning
My star of the evening
My moon, always beaming

She loves to watch me go
She hates to watch me go
I hate to watch her go
I love to watch her go

That's cuz I always know, she's always coming home
That's cuz she always knows, I'm always coming home

Sun in the morning
My sun every morning
My star of the evening
My moon always beaming
Sun in the morning
My sun every morning

She feeds me daily soul, she feeds me daily soul
She talks right to my soul

Sun in the morning
My sun every morning
My star of the evening
My moon always beaming

She feeds me daily soul, she feeds me daily soul

She talks right to my soul

 

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Doves

We've traded places times before
We were built for making love and not for war
I'm screaming fire! Fire!
And watching from the door
I'm feeling burnt clean, under your eyes
Putting me out

Ooh ooh, baby don't hurt no more
Ooh ooh, keep from crying
Ooh ooh, baby don't hurt no more
Ooh ooh, ooh baby don't hurt no more

And I feel it go
What we held so slow
Goes so quickly
And I need to know
All I need to know
Is the pain of lying

It's just a little too much on my mind, this time
It's just a little too much
On my mind
And I'm begging you please, singing

Ooh ooh, baby don't hurt no more
Ooh ooh, keep from crying
Ooh ooh, baby don't hurt no more
Ooh ooh, Ooh baby don't hurt no more

It's not for you, It's not for you
It's not for you

Ooh ooh, ooh baby don't hurt no more...
Ooh ooh, ooh baby don't hurt no more...

 

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Back In The Tall Grass

Home isn't open
It's like, when you get there
The tracks by the creek bed
The minnow's the body
Crawdads with their heads down low
Back in the tall grass
Stinging my cattails oh!
Lokking for brother
It feels like winter
But it's the heart of the summer
We can't go swimming
As long as we slumber

Cuz we're a long way from home
A long way from home
How did we get here?

One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone

And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially, when I'm a long way from home

A long way from home

How did we get here?
Back to the body
Words jump like salmon

One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone

And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially, when I'm a long way from home

In that backwater
Running through the woods
In that red water
In the mirror
Thinking of you

Spend all day just thinking of you
In the mirror thinking of you
Spend my days just thinking of you

And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially, when I'm a long way from home

Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home...

 

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A Song For Our Grandfathers

Been a long time, in a low place
Surrounded by what I have made
Need to get away
Get away from what relates
And what was done...

Cuz it's all over now

Through the woods, I come running to loose leaf
And carve my name
In the lines, there's not a trace
I hear the ghost whisper, and those old eyes watching me
But I feel safe...
Grandfather looking over me

He said:
Don't make them wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Don't make them wait
Nah, don't make them wait

I sat down, with a coffee on my bent knee
Looking out, at the burnt land, looking back at me
These used to be green crops
And high on a summer breeze
No it's fallow fields and clear-cut barren weeds

They said that if I stared
The abyss would stare back at me
So I did...
And I felt it slowly creep in me

Save for the smoke, that danced when I took a drag
It made me think about the way it all came to be...

Grandma watching over me

And she said:
Don't make them wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Don't make them wait
Nah, don't make them wait

Don't make them wait, nah
Don't make them wait

I hear the ghost whisper
And those old eyes watching me
But I feel safe
I feel safe

 

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Light House

When I couldn't see you for the wall
What was that you said?
What was that you said, before you called?

And when I couldn't catch you for the fall
What was that you said?
What was that you said?

"Nothing hurts this much"

But I've seen the way
That bodies lie
And bodies tend to break

And I've been away
I've been away too long
Too long to be afraid

But you know
What you know is better
Is brighter

And you know
You know
What you know is better
Is brighter

And this is where we were, when I showed you the dark
Inside of me, in spite of me
On a bench in the park
You said to me:

"This is not you.
This is not you..
This is not you..."

But I've seen the way
That bodies lie
And bodies tend to break
And I've been away
I've been away too long...
And I don't know a better place

But you know
What you know is better
Is brighter

And you know
You know
What you know is better
Is brighter

And this is where we were, when I showed you the dark
Inside of me, in spite of me
On a bench in the park

And this is where we are
In your bed, in my arms
Outside of me
In spite of, 'we'

I showed you the dark
And you said to me:

"You know
What you know is better
Is brighter"

"And you know, you know
What you know is better
Is brighter"

 

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Like The Moon

She looks like the moon
She says "It's your eyes"
She sees everything
She knows me too well

And she looks like the day
She says "It's the light"
Something in the way, she says "goodbye"

And she looks like the moon
So close and yet, so far
She says everything
She knows me too well

And I can call you, "friend"
And I can be the world
Silent chatter held

I won't be around

And I can be a friend
But I won't be around
Silent chatter, bound
Just don't push me out

She looks like the moon
She says "It's your eyes"
She says everything
She knows me too well

And I can call you "friend"
But I won't be around
Silent chatter, bound
Just don't push me out

We don't have to speak tonight
Just don't say "goodbye"

Making a home in my body
Letting it grow in my body
Taking these chains from my body
Letting it go from my body
Letting it go from my body
Taking these chains from my body
It's harder than you know

She looks like the moon
She says "It's your eyes"
She says everything
She knows me too well

And she looks like the day
She says "It's the light"
Something in the way, she says "goodbye"

Just don't say goodbye
I can be the world, tonight...

 

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Fall From Grace

You were mine when I was young
Why does it take so long?
When you were here, it was warm
Now it's just a bitter storm

Now I'm older, turning white
Watching days turn into nights
Now I'm older and I'm grave
Tell me, what's been left to save?

Pardon my reflection
In the mirror, at your feet
Before you go, please tell me
"Was it all inside of me?"

"I'll leave here in the morning..."

You were mine when I was young
Why does it take so long?
Now I'm older and I'm grave
Tell me, "What's been left to save?"

I held you in the morning
In the doorway of the sea
"Pardon my reflection
I was all inside of me"

We slowly fall from grace
We slowly fade away...

 

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A Dream Of You And Me

I wrestled by the sea
A loneliness in me
I asked myself for peace
And found it at my feet
Staring at the sea...

All that glitters is gold
Don't believe what you've been told
People lie, people love, people go
But beauty lies in every soul

I wrestled by the sea
A dream of you and me
I let it go from me
It washed up at my feet
Staring at the sea...

All that glitters is gold
Don't believe what you've been told
People lie, people love, people go
But beauty lies in every soul

If you wait, if you wait for the morning
If you wait, if you wait for the morning
If you wait, if you wait for the morning
If you wait, if you wait for the morning

How long, how long
How long, how long

I asked myself for peace
I asked myself for peace
I asked myself for peace
I asked myself for peace

I asked myself for peace
And found a piece of me
Staring at the sea...