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Artist: Big Thief
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Oh the last time I saw Paul
I was horrible and almost let him in
But I stopped and caught the wall
And my mouth got dry so all I did was take him for a spin

Yeah, we hopped inside my car
And I drove in circles 'round the freight train yard
And he turned the headlights off
Then he pulled the bottle out
And then he showed me what is love

I'll be your morning bright goodnight shadow machine
I'll be your record player, baby, if you know what I mean
I'll be your real tough cookie with the whiskey breath
I'll be a killer and a thriller and the cause of our death

In the blossom of the months
I was sure that I'd get driven off with thought
So I swallowed all of it
As I realized there was no one who could kiss away my shit

I'll be your morning bright goodnight shadow machine
I'll be your record player, baby, if you know what I mean
I'll be your real tough cookie with the whiskey breath
I'll be a killer and a thriller and the cause of our death

Oh Paul, I know you said that you'd take me any way I came or went
But I'll push you from my brain
See, you're gentle, baby
I couldn't stay, I'd only bring you pain

I was your starry-eyed lover and the one that you saw
I was your hurricane rider and the woman you'd call
We were just two moonshiners on the cusp of a breath
And I've been burning for you baby since the minute I left
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Big Thief
Big Thief is an alternative rock band from Brooklyn, formed in 2015. Adrianne Lenker is the lead singer and songwriter for the group. She also contributes guitar melodies. The
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Big Thief Lyrics
Big Thief lyrics - 82 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Vampire Empire", "Not", "Dried Roses".
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Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You by Big Thief
On 16 November 2021 the band announced their 5th LP (as well as a 5th single from the album, “Time Escaping”) alongside the following statement: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe
U.F.O.F. by Big Thief
U.F.O.F., the second F standing for ‘Friend’, is Big Thief’s third studio album and their first on 4AD, released on May 3, 2019. U.F.O.F. was recorded on a 10-acre farm in a barn-
Vampire Empire / Born For Loving You by Big Thief
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Capacity by Big Thief
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Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
[Verse 1] / It's a little bit magic / Like a river of morning geese / In the new warm mountain / Where the stone face forms and speaks / [Chorus] / I believe in you / Even when you
Big Thief – Masterpiece
The first single form 2016’s album of the same name, Masterpiece is a powerful, uptempo song about the passing of time, and of lives. On one level it reminisces of times past
Big Thief – Contact
Jodi / Please turn the pages for me / You seem so free / You know I'm barely, barely / Wrap me in silk / I want to drink your milk / You hold the key / You know I'm barely, barely
Big Thief – Change
The track was previewed multiple times by Lenker via impromptu Instagram Live shows in 2021, before receiving its full band debut on 21 August 2021 at Garden Amphitheatre
Big Thief – Shark Smile
[Verse 1] / She was a shark smile in a yellow van / She came around and I stole her glance / In my youth, a vampire / Evelyn shone quiet as roses sting / It came over me at a bad
Big Thief – UFOF
Adrianne Lenker has spoken about how U.F.O.F symbolizes the other, those things outside of ourselves, those things beyond our understanding. The album’s title, adds ‘Friend’ to ‘
Big Thief – The Only Place
[Verse 1] / What if all the worlds in space / Would melt into one single place / And intertwine the human race / With other kinds? / The atom is an empty vase / A vehicle to know
Big Thief – Little Things
Released in August 2021, ‘Little Things’ is a track that expresses complete and utter infatuation with a romantic partner. The sheer power of these feelings consistently makes the
Big Thief – Mythological Beauty
This was the first single from Big Thief’s sophomore album, Capacity. The song is a meditation on the sacrifices, both literal and emotional, young parents are forced to take on.
Big Thief – Mary
‘Mary’ was written by Adrianne Lenker in the home which inspired the sentiment of the lyrics. In an interview with NPR, Lenker spoke about the inspiration for the song. She first
Big Thief – Not
On 13 August 2019, Big Thief announced that they would release their second album of the year, Two Hands, as a follow up to U.F.O.F. (which was released in May). “Not” was
Big Thief – Red Moon
[Verse 1] / Red moon rising like a fire in me / So many questions, she asks them all to me / I have to answer most curiously / Scarlet angel, I am too small to see / Earn, earn
Big Thief – Replaced
[Verse 1] / Move along through Santa Fe / And make a new beginning / What's that you were starting to say? / Or have you forgotten? / [Chorus] / 'Cause, 'cause the unlit moon would
Big Thief – Parallels
[Verse 1] / Don't I make you feel alive? / Don't I give you a good home? / In a way I know you're always by my side / But today I think I've always been a long way / [Chorus] / One
Big Thief – Real Love
[Verse 1] / Having a bad week? / Let me touch your cheek / I will always love you / [Verse 2] / Having your face hit / Having your lip split / By the one who loves you / [Chorus
Big Thief – Century
[Verse 1] / Dogs eyes in the headlights of the driveway / Cool autumn rain / Bugs died on your windshield on the freeway / Wonder if you'll be the same / Centuries flower / [Chorus
Big Thief – Time Escaping
On 16 November 2021, “Time Escaping” was released alongside the announcement of Big Thief’s fifth album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. The song was first debuted live
Big Thief – Certainty
[Verse 1] / Name on the line, last request / Pull the car over to find some rest / Saying, "I love you" / Need to lie here, need to leave / Living in the debt of make-believe
Big Thief – Animals
The animals are wonderful / Such a vision in the sun, how they lay low / I catch my breath and count my dough / And I only live to run and I need to go / You and I were born and I'
Big Thief – Capacity
I wrote the song “Capacity” after a dream. I woke up at my sister’s house in the woods and basically just wrote down the dream. Every verse is a part of the dream. I took the word
Big Thief – Cattails
[Verse 1] / Caroline, Caroline / I never could leave you to struggle / Hold the line, hold the line / I’ll be there on the double / In time, in time / Everyone does see trouble / [
Big Thief – Betsy
[Verse 1] / Driving through the night / Rings of crystal, crystal light / Every gulp of the warm suburb air / Betsy's auburn, auburn hair / [Refrain] / Ooh, ooh / [Verse 2] / Drive
Big Thief – Dandelion
He's old like the raspberry cold / Coming in the window / His gloom room / Flowers blooming out like armadillos / He looks to the left at the yellow lines / Moving with the traffic
Big Thief – Vampire Empire
[Verse 1] / Watching TV tired, bleeding on the bed / The milk has just expired, all the leaves are dead / I'm not quiet, you've been quiet, just receiving what you said / Reeling
Big Thief – Vegas
Holed up in Vegas for only one week / And I caught you tongue and cheek by the side of the road / Of an automobile expo / Turned up the volume and you started to weep / And I
Big Thief – Blurred View
[Verse 1] / I am the magazine, the blue screen / The big hand moving past the last thing / I turn for you, turn for you / Turn for you, turn for you / [Verse 2] / I am the private
Big Thief – Shoulders
“Shoulders” had become a live favorite long before it was announced that the song would appear on Big Thief’s fourth album Two Hands. A studio recording of this song was highly
Big Thief – Strange
[Verse 1] / Doesn't it seem strange / Searching for a hidden page / The fairy's cage / Coming of true age / Leave the costume on the stage / The silkworm's rage / Iridescent thread
Big Thief – Objects
Old volcanoes melting / Love is overwhelming / Letting your insides out / Blind altercation / Open invitation / Breaking your guard down / Leaving the familiar / Air is getting
Big Thief – Wolf
Hello to the morning moon / Woke up as you left the room / Pillow still warm / Scent like meadow grass / Has the feeling come to pass? / Has the feeling come to stay? / What can we
Big Thief – Happiness
[Verse 1] / Pull over / Look at mercury / Just believing / In silence / With your mother / Like a true beginner / [Refrain] / Happiness / [Verse 2] / The silver / The gradual decay
Big Thief – Coma
This song describes a woman whose mother was put into a coma by an unspecified man (maybe her husband, the narrator’s father?). However, her ailment is described as a “protective
Big Thief – Haley
Just like that, she is / I mean / We are, we are gone for good / For closing my eye / Too soon / Missed the room / Old magpie / It just passed me through / [Chorus] / Oh, when it
Big Thief – Sparrow
[Verse 1] / Wrapped in the wings of a sparrow / Beak is as sharp as an arrow / Sings in a whispering whistle / Sleeps in the ivy and thistle / Owls out swooping and howling / Deep
Big Thief – Pretty Things
In an interview with Stereogum, Lenker says: “Well the main thing that I’ll say without ruining the song is that the chorus is something that I like to focus on as a mantra. “
Big Thief – Promise Is a Pendulum
[Verse 1] / I could never build the ether or the grass overgrown / I could never build the river with a mouth full of foam / I could never build the winter with her cold tears of
Big Thief – Orange
[Verse 1] / Orange is the color of my love / Fragile orange wind in the garden / Fragile means that I can hear her flesh / Crying little rivers in her forearm / Fragile is that I
Big Thief – Spud Infinity
[Chorus] / What's it gonna take? / What's it gonna take? / What's it gonna take / To free the celestial body? / [Verse 1] / From way up there, it looks so small / From way down
Big Thief – No Reason
[Verse 1] / Been pulling through / Since the last time I touched you / Making due with an internet signal / Calling for the delivery to the front door / [Chorus] / There is no
Big Thief – Jenni
[Verse 1] / Too hot to breathe / Too hot to breathe / Too hot to breathe / [Chorus] / Jenni's in my room / Jenni's in my room / Jenni's in my room / [Verse 2] / Her skin so bare
Big Thief – Blue Lightning
[Intro] / One / One, two, one, two / [Verse 1] / Blue lightning was an autograph signing up the sky / To the question that I had to ask, she only answered, "Why?" / Angelia took
Big Thief – Forgotten Eyes
“Forgotten Eyes,” is the second track on Big Thief’s fourth album, Two Hands. It was released on October 2nd, 2019, as the second single from the album, following “Not”. According
Big Thief – Watering
This song depicts a woman who is being stalked. It is told mostly from her perspective, with the exception of the last verse and the following refrain, which are narrated by the
Big Thief – Flower of Blood
[Verse 1] / Give me some time on Earth to know you / Help me unearth the map and show you / Thinking of her, thinking of him, want to? / [Chorus] / When you touch me / [Verse 2
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