This is my song to bring the leaves out of the trees My song to turn them all kinds of colors from green 'Cause Elizabeth's coming like the sky in the East Teach the birds to sing, teach the crickets to hold their peace She's gonna be here long after I'm gone She's gonna be here long after I'm gone She's gonna be here long after I'm gone

Last day on the road Headed, headed home Last day by myself Driving out of hell And my feet are tired and I need some water and I think I might pass out But if I do I’ll dream of you so I walk without a doubt And if you love me you should tell me right before we die So I can spend the whole rest of my life looking right into your eyes And if you love me you should tell me right before we go So I can be the very first one in heaven to know And you don’t know me well But you know me better than I know myself So baby come on by I want to look into your eyes and see the sky And my steed is tired and I need some water and this is what it takes I couldn’t fake the ocean with table salt and a million lakes With table salt and a million lakes With table salt and a million lakes And if you live me you should tell me right before we die So I can spend the whole rest of my life looking right into your eyes And if you live me you should tell me right before we go So I can be the very first one in heaven to know And I’ve been trying to tell you With every word we speak But when I say I miss you That’s not what I mean ‘Cause when I say M I S S I mean L O V E When I say M I S S I mean L O V E oh, when I say M I S S I mean L O V E And if you love me you should tell me in a lavender field So all the bees can bear witness to all the love I feel And if you love me you should tell me in a thunderstorm So when our two fronts collide it doesn’t matter who’s cold or warm

I ain't much of a prophet and I ain't much of a priest But I know God's work Oh, when I see it And you probably wouldn't tell me you're an angel but tell me some angels that do I I'd think I'd know an angel when I see one in you And if you doubt the future honey, look to the east Ah, and think of all the things that haven't come to be And you probably can't tell if I'm a devil and frankly neither can I but oh, who knows what you see when you look into my eyes And honey, I've been looking for a savior 'cause I need to be saved oh, but when I look at you I know my salvation is not far away And if you doubt the future honey, look to the west ah, and think of all the things that haven't happened yet And if you doubt the future honey, look to the sun ah, I'm gonna marry you someday honey in front of everyone

Down in the gorge where it's dark and it's deep I've been thinking about a girl who loves me I brought her a rock from the river that sings I brought her a rock should've brought her a ring for her hand Oh, her beautiful hand Down in the gorge, you can find me down in the gorge Down in the gorge with the rocks and the trees I've been thinking about a girl who loves me I brought her a flower that grows by the banks I brought her a flower should've brought her my thanks for my life Oh, that girl saved my life Down in the gorge, you can find me down in the gorge Down in the gorge where the falls sing their song I've been sittin' and singin' along I don't know the words but I carry the tune I don't know the words but I'll bring that song back to you from the gorge I'll bring that song back to you from the gorge Down in the gorge, you can find me down in the gorge

sitting in the station waiting you said that one would come for me if I'm patient and there's that sound that you can hear that means they're moving so I stand at attention, looking down the track like a loooooooser I'm waiting for an A-Line train the last time I waited it eventually came so I'll just sit here I'll just sit here underground I'll just sit here I'll just sit here underground I don't mean to scare you with my eyes I feel like a kid or a lightning bolt who used to be somebody who already died and I'd write you a letter but I wouldn't have nothing to say so I'll write you a letter anyway and I'm waiting for an A-Line train the last time I waited it eventually came so I'll just sit here I'll just sit here underground I'll just sit here I'll just sit here underground I'm waiting for an A-Line train the last time I waited it eventually came so I'll just sit here I'll just sit here underground I'll just sit here I'll just sit here underground

You say you're a vampire while we're waiting for the red line we go back to Takoma and we sleep in the same bed my blood is ink and it's all drying I wished to love a vampire now I think that I am dying I'm just a lonely paintbrush I think that I can't love you now I said you're my sunflower and that was true one of the only completely honest things I've said to you now you say you're a vampire while we waited for the train and I got on the last one and you watched me ride away No words left for me to say 'cause all my ink is dry Everything I've ever said to you has been a lie

When I came over the overpass I saw a sight I'd never seen before I saw all of heaven spillin' down to Earth onto the valley floor When I came over the overpass Hell, I'd thought I was alone then I saw every angel spillin' down to Earth I guess the floor just broke Oh, and you should have seen the way light hit the river Oh, and you should have seen the way God loves all his children When I came over that overpass I saw a sight I'd never seen I saw every angel spillin' down to earth and every one of them was singing Oh, and you should have seen the way the light hit the river Oh, and you should have seen the way God loves all his children and how the clouds looked over the city Oh, and you should have seen the way light hit the river the river and now oh and you should have seen the way the clouds looked over the city and how God loves all his children

I'm coming over we're gonna talk about football teams in upstate New York and your family is a royal bunch and your sister's nice but you're the one I love 'cause she's not you she's not you she's not you oh, she's not you And Rooney if I told you you'd probably laugh it off just like everyone before and Rooney if you love me I'd cover up my flaws just like every movie star just like every movie star Cover up my flaws for you Hide them if you want me to and I've seen your face in different lights and can't think of one that I didn't like and all the other girls they think that I might but I never will but you're on my mind and they're not you they're not you they're not you they're not you Rooney if I told you you'd probably laugh it off just like everyone before and Rooney if you love me I'd cover up my flaws just like every movie star just like every movie star Cover up my flaws for you Hide them if you want me to Rooney if I told you you'd probably laugh it off just like everyone before and Rooney if you love me I'd cover up my flaws just like every movie star just like every movie star Rooney if I told you you'd probably laugh it off just like everyone before and Rooney if you love me I'd cover up my flaws just like every movie star just like every movie star Cover up my flaws for you Hide them if you want me to Cover up my flaws for you Hide them if you want

Lilly I've been stuck at home Wishing you weren't so far gone Lilly I've been trying just to fall asleep and Lilly I've been sittin' here listening to words that I cannot hear Lilly I've been trying just to stay awake I don't know where you're going and I don't know if you'll get there on time all I know is that I love you don't need no reason, no reason or rhyme and Lilly I've been thinking back to when we walked off the beaten track Lilly, I've been trying just to stay awake Lilly, I've been so ashamed Oh, I'm going insane and I've been trying to, trying to fall asleep I don't know where you're going and I don't know if you'll get there on time all I know is that I love you don't need no reason no reason or rhyme Oh, Lilly come home!

If you stay any longer I might drown in my pain I can't have you any longer so darling, catch that train Winter's on it's way now and the geese are in formation and I talked to the leaves in the woods and to the dark and together we're all changing so let go of my hand and let the fog roll off the sea I have an ocean to cross and you have a life to live without me without me So darling, catch that train go south with the summer rain and you won't have to see my lying face ever ever ever ever again the River froze a long time ago but since it's melted I can't separate our bodies myself I need you to help me so help me Darling, catch that train go south with the summer rain and you won't have to see my lying face ever ever ever ever again

So turn sunflower find the sun and if it's not there I'll retract my love and I'll give it back to the sea So turn sunflower find the sun an impossible task when the day is done 'cause I never loved you the way you loved me Turn Elizabeth, turn back time and make me worse at telling lies so that she never believes me Turn Elizabeth, turn away and lead my down into your cave and bury me where I never will be found

There once was a butterfly who stole away on a ship and he flew too high and got carried by the wind and he watched his only land fall away beneath and so that little butterfly got lost at sea that little butterfly got lost at sea and all the time he was singing I don't know if I should go tell me there's a place for me one lily pad in the sea I don't know if I should go and if I jump ship if I had one wish there'd be one in the sea and lily pad was pretty with a flower in her hair and sweet green eyes that soak up the sky and turn it into sugar and she let him land and dried his wings and listened to him sing and in return he flew around and brought her things and when it was time for her to go east she beckoned for him to come and so he turned east and flew into the rising sun and when it was time for her to east she beckoned for him to come and so he spread his wings and flew into the sun I don't know if I should go Tell me there's a place for me one lily pad in the sea I don't know if I should go tell me there's a place for me and if I jump ship and if I had one wish she'd be there in the sea I don't know I should go