 Genius Lyrics
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Sparklehorse – It's a Wonderful Life
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The lead track off the album of the same name, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was, acording to an interview with Linkous, a “fuck you” to critics who focused only on the darkness and
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Lorena B – It's A Wonderful Life
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[Verse 1] / I am the only one / Can ride that horse, the yonder / I'm full of bees who died at sea / [Chorus] / It's a wonderful life / It's a wonderful life / [Verse 2] / I wore a
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Sparklehorse (Ft. Nina Persson) – Gold Day
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[Verse 1] / Good morning, my child / Stay with me a while / You not got any place to be / Won't you sit a spell with me? / You've got diamonds for eyes / It's time for you to rise
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Sparklehorse – Babies on the Sun
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[Verse 1] / The sound of your voice / Rose graves of cats / The pounding of your steps / Woke caves of bats / (La, la, la) / [Chorus] / Babies on the sun / Babies on the sun / [
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Sparklehorse (Ft. PJ Harvey) – Piano Fire
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A surrealist song with pacifist overtones.
The songs features many descriptions of inabilities and twisted characters, some of which are anthropomorphised.
Featuring PJ Harvey
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Sparklehorse (Ft. Nina Persson) – Apple Bed
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Of horses wet with melted ice / They would not heed my advice / And burdened limbs of its weight / To break and rot a whispered fate / Please doctor, please / A remedy in a bloody
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Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution – It's a Wonderful Life
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Once again I wake up alone on the wrong side of my bed / Once again you begin your dancing nakedly on the right side of my head / It's for a lack of better words that I can hardly
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Sparklehorse – Devil's New
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I pulled my heart, I pulled my heart out / I pulled my heart out / On a mountain high / I left it in the sun / But it would not die, but it would not / But it would not die / Are
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Sparklehorse – Ghost In The Sky (2001 Version)
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Abide with me from the morning 'til the evening / Abide with me when the night is high / Be my last sight and sweet to rest / Forever on your warm decaying breast / See you blind
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Sparklehorse – King of Nails
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[Verse 1] / The toothless kiss of skeletons / And summer hail / I'm the king of nails / I drink my liquor from the palm / Of a child who spoke in tongues / And smelled like sun / [
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Sparklehorse – Morning Hollow
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Ninth track of Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, fourth and final album by Sparklehorse.
The song was previously found as the hidden bonus track on his third
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Sparklehorse – Sea of Teeth
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[Verse 1] / Can you feel the wind / Of venus on your skin? / Can you taste the crush / Of a sunset's dying blush? / [Chorus 1] / Stars will always hang / In summer's bleeding fang
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Sparklehorse – Eyepennies
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[Verse 1] / I will return here one day / And dig up my bones from the clay / I buried nails and strings and hair / And that old tooth I believe was a bear's / [Chorus 1] / I held
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Sparklehorse – More Yellow Birds
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Much of this song alludes to a fatal mining accident, probably due to Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Mark Linkous (aka Sparklehorse) came from a family of coal miners.
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Sparklehorse (Ft. Tom Waits) – Dog Door
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Well she's as mean as a needle / Don't get too close to the heater / She's like a mean shop keeper / Who got an extra gun / She about 6'4" and she's a wrecking ball / Now go ahead
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Sparklehorse – Little Fat Baby
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Did you save your wisdom teeth? / Did you burn your Christmas tree? / But he got dragged by a donkey / Through the dirt and the myrtle / But he was once a little fat baby / Did you
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Sparklehorse – Comfort Me
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[Verse 1] / With rocks in my dress / And smoke in my hair / I walked into a lake / To get some sleep down in there / [Chorus] / Won't you come to comfort me? / Won't you come to
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Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
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Twelfth track from Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, fourth and final album by Sparklehorse.
The song was originally released in 2001 under the title “Maxine” on
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