a handsome mix of haunting melodies

1.
instrumental piano

2.
if you get too tired
you can lay your hair across my pillow
the darkness coming quickly
this time of the year.
you can lay your hands on me
if you like
you can lay your hands on me
for a while
that night inside the fog...

3.
in the woods
after the snow
the white noise witch
her hammers cold
...it's going to be alright
i know your hearts
are heavy as mountains
but we're going to go
back home one day.

4.
he tried hard to help me
you know, he put me at ease
and he loved me so naughty

made me weak in the knees
oh i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
i'm so hard to handle
i'm selfish, i'm sad
now i've lost the best baby
that i ever had
oh i wish i had a river
i could skate away on
i wish i had a river so long
i would teach my feet to fly

5.
i got up, it was dark
there is no one in the park at this hour
how do i keep finding myself here?
oh, fight me.
i looked back and he was screaming.
i'd left him dreaming, a dangerous feat
and i'll run back and shake him tightly
and whisper
if they want you
well, they're gonna have to fight me.
oh fight me.

6.
there is not a river wide
nor a mountain high
and neither sin nor evil
could change how i feel inside
and all of the strength of the ocean
and all the heat from the sun, from the sun
others have tried, but i just can't deny
for me, you are the one
true love is given
and true love is give and take
there's nothing to keep me from loving you
not fire, no, not ice

7.

ice will melt

water will boil

you and i can shake off

this mortal coil

it's bigger than us

you don't have to worry about it

ready or not

here comes the drop

it's only natural

that i should want to

be there with you

you feel lucky

when you know where you are

it's gonna come true

here in your arms, i remember

it's circumstantial

nothing written in the sky

and we don't even have to try

shaking like mud

buildings of glass

sink into the bay

they'll be under the rocks again

you don't have to say

i know you're afraid

8.

i'm lying in the dark

...let it go...

you're hiding from me now

there's something in the way that you're talking

the words don't sound right

i can hear them all moving inside her

go, i'll be waiting when you call

whenever i fall at your feet

you let your tears rain down on me

whenever i touch your slow turning pain

the finger of blame has turned upon itself

and i'm more than willing to offer myself

did you want my presence or need my help?

who knows where that might lead...

and i fall at your feet.

9. 

snow lies all around

there's no sense of doubt

you are the only one

to keep me sane when all is wrong

deep in every dream

though you're far from me

there in the deepest snow

i only wanted you to know

oh my heart

waits in winter now

10.

late december cold

i remember

ghosts

let me know

when they get to heaven

i'll let go

when god lets me forget them

heaven my heart hold

this time i'll let it

late december snow

i'll remember

ghosts

11.

like a freeze-dried rose

you will never be

what you were to me

in memory

but if i listen to the dark

you'll embrace me like a star

envelop me

if things get real for me down here

promise to take me to before you went away...

my silence solidifies

until that hollow void

erases you

erases you so i can't feel at all

but if i never feel again

at least that nothingness will end

the painful dream

of you and me...

12.

poke the body with a stick

roll it down

ignore the moaning

as it tumbles to the ground

be brave and save your day

these days are cold

numbers rule, i've been told

the pattern's clear

better fit into the mold

you need to be brave

and save your day

to cough up sympathy isn't hard

but it costs

hold tight to your life savings

you have to do what you must

to save your day

so poke the body and roll it down

the grave looks cold

but we're still young

we're still young...

13.

met a boy who made me cry

he said

stay away from my kind

i said i appreciate his honesty

and i stayed away

for a while

then he cried

and i laughed on the telephone

and we talked for hours...

but on these [winter] nights

when the weather's right

i miss him by my side

oh by my side

and when the wind blows

west from the hills...

i think of him

oh the boy who surely taught me

how to love

showed me

how to trust and i gave in

and oh, our love it was strong

it was so deep and we were young

and i was a little bit naive

but still how i was in his arms

for 1000 sundowns

it was a love worth remembering...

14.

all of these days into one

awaken to the silence of the sun

who can i talk with today?

why am i still the same?

no reward for calling out your name

as i have done time and time again

you were off in some great distant sun

i am unfrozen, time to shine

all of my sad songs can't make you change

they'll just keep 

pushing you further away

one of your great regrets would be staying in place

i can't hold you back from your dreams

when you figure out what's real 

i'll be standing here

a little bit older but forgiving 

as the night into day

15.

instrumental piano

a handsome mix of haunting melodies

1. hug the piano by emma pollock

2.  policeman getting lost by the clientele

3. mountains by sparklehorse

4. river (joni mitchell cover) by angus stone

5. night terror by laura marling

6. not fire not ice by busby marou

7. it's only natural (crowded house cover) by lior & emma louise

8. fall at your feet (crowded house cover) by boy & bear

9. winter now by broadcast

10. ghosts by communist daughter

11. the sound of white by missy higgins

12. save your day by jose gonzalez

13. 1000 sundowns by emma louise

14. gem by matthew dear

15. ariadne sleeping by the clientele