Rebecca Loebe Lyrics
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Marguerita:
When I leave I'll leave the sun hanging straight up in the sky
The apples in their baskets; let 'em rot and turn to wine
The cold averted glances, the fear in my bones
When I leave I'll leave the long arm and the trips behind the shed
The bundles in my mattress, the shaking of their heads
I'll fare the well to no one; I will disappear
Margarita, you're the reason I've been up at dawn
Marguerita, you're the reason I've been holding on
Marguerita, you're the queen of every beggar's son
Marguerita
When I leave I'll leave completely with a suitcase full of cash
I'll uncross every border, I'll untake every breath
Til we're standing in a chapel making promises
The girls'll get new dresses, the boys get baseball caps
I will answer every question, we'll dance til every last
Drop of celebration has been rung out of our shoes
We'll make love 'til the morning, make love 'til we can't move
Marguerita, you're the reason I've been up at dawn
Marguerita, you're the reason I've been holding on
Marguerita, you're the queen of every beggar's son
Marguerita, Marguerita
It was early in November on a cloudless sunny day
The sky grew thick with thunder, the birds all flew away
They shackled us like killers; we walked in single file
Marguerita, they've been talking oh but I ain't heard a word
I've been dreaming you can see me in my cell of steel and dirt
Hidden from the sun hanging straight up in the sky
I've been plucked like an apple left to rot and turn to wine
Marguerita, you're the reason I've been up at dawn
Marguerita, you're the reason I've been holding on
Marguerita, you're the queen of every beggar's son
Marguerita, Marguerita, Marguerita, Marguerita
Avalanche: Sing to me
A simple melody
So soft it barely sees
The light of day
Your voice rushes to
My ears like sunlight through
A boarded window who's
Been shuttered up all spring
Oh sing to me
That simple melody
So so innocently
It's as if you did not hear
The crack of separation in
A moment's hesitation
One heart inside me breaking
And another growing clean
Oh sing
There's a canyon that I've been to
The walls are tall and dry
Sounds echo off like tennis balls
And bounce around for miles
I am standing at the bottom
When your voice comes drifting near
I know I should run for cover oh
But then I would not hear you
Sing to me
some simple melody
So unexpectantly
Seeking nothing in return
Dust is whipping through the canyon
Rocks are trickling down the walls
I try to yell for help but drop
My words like cannon balls
The ground around me tremors
I cannot move I cannot stand
The thought of not remembering
You or this avalanche
Oh, sing
Oh, sing to me
Any old melody
So soft it barely sees
The light of day
Her In That Dress:
I could shut down the city,
throw you a parade
With circus tents and elephants,
firework displays
I could be barnum or bailey,
an army of rockettes
But I can't compete with her in that dress
I could build a home for orphans,
walk across the Nile
Find a cure for cancer,
help your parents reconcile
I could be shot out of a cannon,
land on your front step
But I can't compete with her in that dress
An unnerving sensation,
a disturbing relationship
In which I'm envious of bumps in the night
I could show you how I love you
every second of every day
Tell you oh you are free to go
but welcome to stay
I could guard your darkest secrets,
deep down in my chest
But I can't compete with her in that dress
No I can't compete with her in that dress
California:
Fell asleep in Hartsfield
Woke up in LAX
Bloody mary balanced on my knee
Stared on my reflection
Caught between two panes of glass
Right there on the plane
California I warned you I can't stay
Alchohol and nicotine
Caffeine and Hollywood
Funny how they wear us down in time
In the roughest of your waters
The smallest of my stones
Grow smooth in every way
California I warned you I can't stay
California I warned you I can't stay
How many stars
Align beneath your sun
All of them ours but one
California how could I be more clear?
I was born for rocky soil
A coast away from here
California you're with me every day
But I warned you I warned you I can't stay
California I warned you I can't stay
Land & Sea:
Then i woke up far away
In a house i owned with barely any clothes on
And a tousled head beside me
I was filthy as a mad woman,
Guilty as a bad person
Oh, the night was young and free
And i cried when i began to see
I woke up in a fantasy
I ran barefoot down the halls
Of a farm house in vermont
Or was it portland?
I have never been before
(Or so i thought)
I knew exactly where to find
What little peace i had in mind
Who'd've thought my wandering eye
Would carry me
Over so much land and sea
And wake me in a fantasy
Aand there your hands go
Where they know they shouldn't be
Caught in a cookie jar
Your fists aren't threatening
In the dark I roll to you
Pour my heart into the room
No one hears me, no one
Oh pity me
What a wretched thing to be
Woken from a fantasy
Married Man:
You can't knit socks for a married man
No matter how you tell yourself it's fine
No matter how it tempts you just to try
No matter how his wife would understand
You just can't knit socks for a married man
You can't drop over unannounced
No matter how it makes sense at the time
For a cup of sugar, swig of rye
I know it's hard to figure out, but
You just can't drop over unannounced
You've got a heart like a wild fire
You change the color of the sky
Damn up those desire
And let lying lovers lie
You can't change the way a river flows
No matter how it's touched you in the night
No matter how you're sure it's just your type
You know you're not too young to know
You can't change the way a river flows….and
You just can't knit socks for a married man
Meridian:
I've got half a tank of gas, sun spots on the dash
A shirt that smells a bit too much like you
I've got a lover i don't love, a heart too tired to bluff
A throne that i don't think i can use
I have tried to tell me friends that i'm aiming for the fences
Still i'm heavy with the sense i could've been happy
In Meridian
Well we lost that demon fight one long wreckless night
When the sun came up i saw had to go
I've got a lover who don't love me, guess that's just what i deserve, see
The symmetry of reaping what you sow
I have tried to tell my self that i don't owe no one else
Still i'm aching with the sense i could've been happy
In Meridian
And do you miss me, Mississippi?
Did you see how long i stalled,
Oh I let the engine idle, gave the light an extra cycle
Then tore my eyes from your door
Next time that I fall, let it be hard or not at all
Pull me up swinging from the dirt and smile along
Tell me about your kids and wife
The house, the trees, the tidy life
We always knew you've land on
I won't stay too long, I've learned when to move on
Just had to see what could have been
To see you happy in Meridian
So glad you're happy in Meridian
Siren:
You are not a siren, and this is not your song
but there is no denying I am holding on.
I'm trying hard to hide you deep inside my chest,
Just press your smile against my cheek and let gravity
do the rest
I am not concluding, and we are not forgone,
But there is no denying this is dead wrong.
the country sky is black, and flat as paper on a roll
you are brilliant as a floodlight through a million tiny holes
"It could be so easy,"
you whisper, and hold me close (??)
deafened by a silence that is desperately polite
it's the absence of our voices that keeps me up tonight
I'm haunted like a house,
I've been rattled like a chain.
You have woken up my ghosts,
you have given them a name.
"It could be so easy,"
You whisper in my hair.
You are not a siren, and this is not your song
But there is no denying I've been holding on.
I'm trying hard to hide you deep inside my chest,
Just press your smile against my cheek,
And baby, let me rest.
Siren:
You are not a siren, and this is not your song
but there is no denying I am holding on.
I'm trying hard to hide you deep inside my chest,
Just press your smile against my cheek and let gravity
do the rest
I am not concluding, and we are not forgone,
But there is no denying this is dead wrong.
the country sky is black, and flat as paper on a roll
you are brilliant as a floodlight through a million tiny holes
"It could be so easy,"
you whisper, and hold me close (??)
deafened by a silence that is desperately polite
it's the absence of our voices that keeps me up tonight
I'm haunted like a house,
I've been rattled like a chain.
You have woken up my ghosts,
you have given them a name.
"It could be so easy,"
You whisper in my hair.
You are not a siren, and this is not your song
But there is no denying I've been holding on.
I'm trying hard to hide you deep inside my chest,
Just press your smile against my cheek,
And baby, let me rest.
