1. Still

There was a time
How did we go about it?
One step at a time
Now we're happy standing
Still I love you still

Everything stays just like the old days
We get a sip and then we sip it till it's dry
Count all the ways it's just like the good days
We get a whiff and then it's with us till we die
Still it's with us still
Still I love you still

"And now a message from our sponsors"
"We will be with you momentarily"

Shhh, what's that sound? It's awful quiet
But I know that sound, maybe we've still got it!
Still we've got it still

When do these days become the old days?
This place gets dustier the more we let it in
Count all the ways it's just like the good old days
Take a number and we'll go around again
Still we're going still
Still we've got it still
Still it's with us still
Still I love you still

"We do appreciate your patience"
"Your satisfaction is our first concern"
"Locate the nearest exit"

Carry on, don't get me started
It's what we've got, it's what we wanted
Still we want it still
Still we've got it
Still it's with us
Still I love you still

2. The Woods

Until the leaf falls
I've never seen a tree
Every time I go into the woods

Before the sundown
I never know the time
Every time I go into the woods

I'm always certain
It hasn't been that long
Every time I go into the woods

I'm always learning
Things I've learned before
Every time I go into the woods

3. Drowning Elvis

Dead in the water
Circles on the mooring each day
The murmuring loons across the bay
Where I used to walk the surface with you

Pull me under
I've been dreaming

Dead in the water
Looking for a reason to stay
To usher out the current in your wake
When I used to walk the surface with you

Pull me under

Dead in the water
Which only makes it harder to say
I'm a messed up cowboy Jesus
You're the horse who gets away
And I used to walk on water with you

4. Ava

As we get to altitude, you pull out a photograph of blue shutters in the afternoon and boats on the water. I'm gonna have to think this through: how could you feel for a man the way a man could feel for you? You're talking in tongues to me and I've got a sudden fear of flying...

  Half of the day, half of the night, Ava

Up here you can't feel the world turn. Drinks only come around once, you'd think that they would learn. How's the two thousand and six? Is that the year for merlot? I've been waiting for something like this...

  Half of the day, half of the night, Ava

Ava, would you like me to be 29 or 23? With great height comes great ephemerality. Maybe we could acclimate to conditions on the ground...

5. The Company We Keep

CHORUS:
We have landed miles away from our families.
We have landed miles away from our families.

SOLO: I am still my mother's son.

CHORUS: I am still my mother's son.

SOLO: Who would I be on my own?
SOLO: Who would I be on my own?


CHORUS:
We have started a song that we can all play the parts to.
We have started a song that we can all play the parts to.

SOLO: I am not the only one.

CHORUS: I am not the only one.

SOLO: Who would I be on my own?
SOLO: Who would I be on my own?


CHORUS:
In this home we are the company, company we...
In this home we are the company, company we...

SOLO: We are the company we keep.

CHORUS: We are the company we keep.

SOLO: Who would I be on my own?
SOLO: Who would I be on my own?
SOLO: Who would I be on my own?

6. Blow The House Down

This one goes to market
This one makes a meal at home
This one has closets
While the have-nots down the way have none

So I go to the mountains, I go to the river
I pilot machines
People have places
And the places have the people's dreams
Oh! Puff, puff and blow the house down

There's a song for the robbers
On the other side of windowpanes
A song for the cowboys
Held up in hundred-mile-an-hour trains

And there's one for the lovers, and one for the sinners
That they sing in the pews
Short of distinctions
I'd say we've all grown tired of singing blues

Oh! Puff, puff, and blow the house down

7. Only Echoes

8. When Fortune Comes

I don't want to know about the weight on your back
Every stone you gather and stack—from now on
Don't look at me for an ounce of pity
I don't want to know when fortune comes
Cheated, borrowed, stolen, or won—same thing
The rocks all show when the river runs low

Acting like everything's free

I don't want to know how you bide your time
Consider me deaf, consider me dumb and blind
Consider me true to the man I knew

I don't want to know how you make your way
Dropping stones to get back someday—well, go on
Every stride is another left behind

You're acting like everything's free
There's always a cost underneath
Where're you gonna go when the road runs out?
Fallen down, half-dead, waking in a flowerbed
Where're you gonna turn when your bridges all burn?

Acting like everything's free
There's always a cost underneath

I don't want to know where you lost the track
Going, gone, and never came back—it's the same thing
What'd you do with the person I knew?

9. My Love

My half-assed best was all I had for your love, my maybe-tomorrows for your heart-to-hearts, my punch-drunk house calls for your candles and wine, my brother, my banjo, my never-done-wrong, all you wanted was me by your side. I tend to get what I want and do as I please, but you taught me I can't always get away with everything I thought I could and for that I thank you, my love. You weren't the first to call me an arrogant son-of-a-bitch, but only out of your lips could those words pull me out of my head, and now I spend my days alone and stay up all night with a picture of whiskey to my left, a bottle of you to my right.

10. Terrible Things

ANSEL ADAMS ON THE WALL ABOVE THE BED AND THE TREES ARE BLACK AND WHITE CHRISTMAS HOLED UP IN THE ADIRONDACKS DOOR WHERE WE PENCILED IN OUR HEIGHT NUTMEG ROLLING PINS FLOOR WHERE I KISSED MY BROTHER'S WIFE

ALL OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS I HAVE DONE HELL IS A PLACE WHERE A HORSE CANNOT RUN I AM THE HORSE I'M THE ONE WHO CAN'T RUN ALL OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS I'VE DONE

MAGNETS UP ON THE REFRIGERATOR SENTENCES CHANGE FROM NIGHT TO NIGHT ANSEL ADAMS ON THE WALL ABOVE THE DOOR WHERE WE PENCILED IN OUR HEIGHT

ALL OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS I HAVE DONE HELL IS A PLACE WHERE A HORSE CANNOT RUN I AM THE HORSE I'M THE ONE WHO CAN'T RUN ALL OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS I'VE DONE

11. The Ancestor

Go on, bury me
Under stone or under sea
Silent pictures
Keep the fishes company
There is little else for me now

But I will find my way
Out of the dark someday
Into a crimson yellow sun

Science fictional
When the morning comes we will
Walk for light years
Watch the nebulas appear
There is little else for me now

But I will find my way
Out of the dark someday
Into a crimson yellow sun
I'll follow my baby boy
He'll be a silver toy
And we'll count the ages as they're ending

But I will find my way
Out of the dark someday
Into a flash of solar inspiration
I'll follow my baby boy
He'll be a silver toy
And we'll count the ages as they're ending

12. Sweet And Low

Nothing tastes like sugar
it's all sweet and low

Nothing drinks like lemonade,
nothing skips like stone

Nothing runs like water
when your one true love is gone

And every day that comes along
has a silver medal on

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Nothing soars like falcons
it's all paper planes

Nothing stings like thistles
and nothing floods like rain

Nothing roars like fire
when you're standing on your own

No shelter from the coming storm
will ever feel like home

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Nothing's cut like diamond
it's all shades of coal

Nothing breaks like tidal waves,
nothing mends like bone

Nothing tastes like sugar
when your love can never return

How to feel with half your heart
is the toughest thing to learn