BARROW

Like A Home

 
There’s Nowhere I Can Go When I’m With You

There's a ghost outside my door

Calling out my name

And a ticket in my bedside drawer

To Katmandu

To Katmandu

There's a suitcase by my wooden bed

Rusting in its hinge

And dying stars above my head

On the avenue

On the avenue

So meet me when you hear my call

By the hole in my fortress wall

And hold me, so I will not fall

There's nowhere I can go when I'm with you

There are thousand roads outside my home

And a million where they end

I could travel each and everyone alone

Into the blue

Into the blue

So meet me when you hear my call

By the hole in my fortress wall

And hold me, so I will not fall

There's nowhere I can go when I'm with you

Julia Wants To Take Me Home

The dust hangs low in the setting sun

It's the last day of summer and I'm already gone

To the abandoned quarry, where the water's blue

Beyond the cold mirror, I'll imagine you

'Cause Julia wants to take me home

I never meet many stares that look my way

When the music gets loud, I drift too far away

In a room full of eyes, I feel sick to the bone

I get too drunk too fast and I sink like a stone

But Julia, Julia wants to take me home

To her seven inch records on the gramophone

So much better than being alone

Yeah, Julia wants to take me home

I'm always one minute late for trains

Always one minute late for chance

I got wine in my blood and rust on my chains

I got a woman in my bed with the coldest hands

But Julia, Julia wants to take me home

To her instant coffee and her methadone

So much better than being alone

Yeah, Julia wants to take me home

Well, I can't believe what I heard today

They found Julia in the quarry with the peacefullest face

Now, Julia, Julia wants to take me home

To her place beyond the horizon

So much better than being alone

Now, Julia, Julia wants to take me home

To her seven inch records on the grammophone

So much better than being alone

Yeah, Julia wants to take me home

Along The Way

There's a light

A strange light above the city tonight

And my dear, we're gonna be alright

In my arms I carry you

I've been gone

I've been gone so far away too long

Now, God has turned his radio on

To a sunset in stereo

Now, I took all the bullets

That were meant for you

All the demons and the saints

That were sent for you

I drank

I drank from every cup I was passed

I held on to every bottle, each glass

In a field full of swollen grapes

I rode

I rode every ticket I found

Till I dumped my worn chest on the ground

And I found my long lost fallen grace

And I took all the bullets

That were meant for you

All the demons and the saints

That were sent for you

I broke the tiles, you couldn't break

I took you down the old highway

Where you found comfort, too

Along the way

And I took all the bullets

That were meant for you

All the demons and the saints

That were sent for you

I broke the tiles, you couldn't break

I gave your life that was yours to take

I took you down the old highway

Where you found comfort, too

Along the way

Like a Home

In the North Country

Where saltwater eats up the shores

And where your eyelids get sore

As the wind sands your face

I was raised along the railroad

That pumped blood into the streets of my town

And the steel engine's pounding

Gave all my dreams pace

Out of the tunnels

And into the night

I stared at the fluorescent lights

That lit up the names

Of the places that felt like a home

Where the northern winds roam

I woke from my dreams

And into the train I was called

On weekends I was stalled

Behind aluminum walls

Out of the windows

And into the streets

I could feel my life escape from my seat

And little by little,

These tracks began to feel like a home

Where the northern winds roam

In the North Country

Where saltwater eats up the shores

I once boarded a train

And could never change course

Out of the night

And into the day

I still feel my life eroding like clay

As these bars of steel and this song

Is holding me home

Over the sleepers

And under the skies

I still see the wires dance for my eyes

As my breath on the window

Fades with my childhood home

Where the northern winds roam

Give Me Strength

I was just a no-one

Nothing was my game

No-one noticed when I came

Or ever found out where I stayed

Across the small town creeks

Of the badlands I did go

'Till I reached a rodeo

Spreading sawdust in the glade

I rolled up my sleeves

And my faded ink they showed

A roadmap of my loads

Emerged from the colors that remained

I gave up my ways

For every small town village's cheer

Their hopeful eyes and ears

Would give cold rushes through my veins

Give me strength to give in

Give me strength to be just

Give me strength, for I have sinned

On my way to your trust

One day, after sunset

In a tiny meadow town

She was standing in the round

As my eyes took a glance

She pulled out my hand

And dragged me to her bed

I recall the words, I said

There, in those rainy meadowlands:

Give me strength to give in

Give me strength to be just

Give me strength, for I have sinned

On my way to your trust

I woke up in many beds

Saw the sun set in many town

But through the years, somehow

I always crawled back to her floors

And on my last day

On this unforgiving world

With these roadworn words

I'm gonna knock on my last door:

Give me strength to give in

Give me strength to be just

Give me strength, for I have sinned

On my way to your trust

Everybody Knows

Everybody knows

There's a two before the three

Everybody knows

Everyone but me

I've been running in the fields

Chasing balls in high weeds

Drowned in a sea of corn in bloom

I found my way home

Through the twisted paths of reeds

But where the straight road goes

Everybody knows

Everybody sees

The apples in the trees

Everybody sees

Everyone but me

I considered every footstep

Dodged the lines between the pavement tiles

Ducked my head and counted drainage grates

I can't hide along the walls

Can't erase my travelled miles

I can't get no peace

'Cos everybody sees

Everybody's heard

The rhythm and the key

Everybody's heard

Everyone but me

I came in through the wrong door

To a room full of eyes like mine

Seemed like everyone's been here before

When I thought I knew my way out,

They changed the exit signs

That's the way it goes

When everybody knows

That's the way it goes

When everybody knows

Like I

Make me a bed

Of the pictures in my head

'Cause I could die so content tonight

I've seen thens, I've seen nows

I've seen the basement of my house

I've seen midnight in the pale sunlight

Dig me a grave

Of the tokens that you've saved

My grinding memory's spilling over

I've seen the Danube flow

Wyoming clad in snow

I’ve seen a lighthouse's beacon outside of Dover

Now, I wish you could see the sky

Explode in purple colors like I

I wish you could live

Inside the apple of my eye

And cry

Like I

I could dig one for you

In the soil that you once knew

Before the ground froze to barren dirt

Between the buildings where you go

You keep looking for you shadow

But you silhouette is already blurred

Now, I wish you could see the sky

Explode in purple colors like I

I wish you could live

In the apple of my eye

And cry

Like I

Roll me a cigarette

While the flowers are still wet

From the dew that falls on our last night on this place

Feel the smoke, thick and warm

It's gonna keep you safe and calm

Before we rise above with grace

Now, I wish you could see the sky

Explode in purple colors like I

I wish you could live

In the apple of my eye

And cry

Like I

Hometown Well

I'm just a stranger

A stranger in this town

Since I got here, I've been

Keeping my nose to the ground

Where I wander

Wonder and stray

I hold on to the key

To my mother's garden gate

You go through Heaven and through Hell

But you still owe silver to your hometown well

I get the words

The words that reach my ear

But my tongue won't bend

The vowels like they do 'round here

And then one night

One night when the moon looked away

They took my keys

And threw them in the high-tided bay

When you got nothing left to sell

You still owe silver to your hometown well

So I ran

I ran past the city limits sign

I just couldn't stop

'Till I got to the county line

I saw the fields

The fields, where they know my name

Then I turned around

And walked back the way I came

You spoke your very last farewell

But you still owe silver to your home town well

You hear the last ring of your funeral bell

Yeah, you still owe silver to your hometown well