Tuesday Tunes: The Civil Wars

The Civil Wars new album is INCREDIBLE!  It's all I've been listening to since the day it was released.  Below are my favorite lyrics from each song...

The One That Got Away

"I miss the way you wanted me when I was staying just out of your reach, begging for the slightest touch.  Ooh, you couldn't get enough."

I Had Me A Girl

"He washed me as clean as a sinner could be."

Same Old Same Old

"‘Cause do I love you?  Oh, I do.  And I'm going to 'til I'm gone.  But if you think that I can stay in this same old, same old, well, I don't."

"I’m gonna name names.  I’m gonna call us out.  I’m gonna say it if you won’t."

Dust to Dust

"Oh, you're acting your thin disguise, all your perfectly delivered lines.  They don't fool me.  You've been lonely too long."

"Let me in the wall you've built around.  We can light a match and burn it down.  Let me hold your hand and dance 'round and 'round the flames in front of us."

"You're like a mirror reflecting me.  Takes one to know one, so take it from me."

Eavesdrop

"I don’t want to talk right now.  I just want your arms wrapped around me in this moment before it runs out."

"I can’t pull you closer than this.  It’s just you and the moon on my skin."

Devil's Backbone

"Oh Lord, Oh Lord, what do I do?  I’ve fallen for someone who’s nothing like you.  He’s raised on the edge of the devil’s backbone."

"There wasn’t a wrong or a right he could choose.  He did what he had to do."

"Give me the burden, give me the blame.  I’ll shoulder the load and I’ll swallow the shame.  Give me the burden, give me the blame.  How many, how many Hail Mary's is it gonna take?  Don’t care if he’s guilty, don’t care if he’s not.  He’s good and he’s bad and he’s all that I’ve got."

From This Valley

"Oh the outcast dreams of acceptance just to find pure love's embrace.  Like an orphan longs for its mother, may you hold me in your grace."

Tell Mama

"Tell Mama all about it.  Tell Mama what you need.  Tell Mama what you want.  And I’ll make everything alright."

Oh, Henry

"Oh the grass is green everywhere but under me.  Or so it seems."

"Got a wedding band in the name of a wandering man.  I love the best I can."

"Oh Henry, I know you wouldn't hurt me.  Don't you know that we don't need one more grave in this town."

"Oh you and I both know that at the end of that forbidden road, there's a six-foot hole."

"When we wed, we said forever ever and a day.  The whole town heard you promise to be true.  So boy, you're gonna only give your gypsy heart to me if it's the last thing you do."

Disarm

"Disarm you with a smile and leave you like they left me here to wither in denial, the bitterness of one who's left alone."

Sacred Heart

Translating this song from English to French could never do it justice.

D'arline

"I could get over you, but please don’t ask me to.  Just so you know, you’ll always be the only one, even when you’re not.  You’ll always be the only one, even when you’re gone."

"You always said you want me to be happy, but happiness was having you here with me.  You’ll always be the one that’s standing in my way.  And that’s okay."