The Carpenter (2012)

• The Once And Future Carpenter
• Live And Die
• Winter In My Heart
• Pretty Girl From Michigan
• I Never Knew You
• February Seven
• Through My Prayers
• Down With The Shine
• A Father's First Spring
• Geraldine
• Paul Newman vs. The Demons
• Life
• Standing With You (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)
• Die Then Grow (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

The Once And Future Carpenter lyrics - The Avett Brothers

I ain't from Texas, but I made my way from Dallas

And I know the lonesome sound is following

I ain't a gambler, but I can recognize a hand

And when to hold, when queens are staring back at me

Once I was a carpenter, and man my hands were calloused

I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight

But I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry

And I left the timbers rotting where they lay

Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me

And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky

And when the black cloak drags upon the ground

I'll be ready to surrender, and remember

We're all in this together

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die

And I don't come from Detroit, but her diesel motors pulled me

And I followed till I finally lost my way

And now I spend my days in search of a woman we call purpose

And if I ever pass back through her town I'll stay

Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me

And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky

And when the black dress drags upon the ground

I'll be ready to surrender, and remember

We're all in this together

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die

And my life is but a coin, pulled from an empty pocket

Dropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind

Hope and fear go with it, and the moon and the sun go spinning

Like the numbers and the fruits before our eyes

Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind

Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind

Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me

And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky

And when the black cloak drags upon the ground

I'll be ready to surrender, and remember

Well we're all in this together

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die

Live And Die lyrics - The Avett Brothers

All it will take is

just one moment and

you can say goodbye to

how we had it planned

Fear like a habit,

run like a rabbit out and away.

Through the screen door

to the unknown.

And I want to love you and more.

I want to find you and more.

Where do you reside

When you hide? How can I find you?

'Cause I want to send you and more

I want to tempt you and more

can you tell that I am alive?

Let me prove it.

You and I, we're the same.

Live and die, we're the same.

Hear my voice, know my name,

you and I, we're the same.

Left like a pharaoh,

sing like a sparrow anyway.

Even if there is no land or

love in sight.

We bloom like roses,

leave like Moses out and away.

Through the bitter crowd

to the daylight.

And I want to love you and more.

I want to find you and more.

Can you tell that I am alive?

Let me prove it to ya.

You and I, we're the same.

Live and die, we're the same.

You rejoice, I complain,

but you and I, we're the same.

Live and die, we're the same.

You and I, we're the same.

Hear my voice, know my name,

you and I, we're the same.

And I want to love you and more.

I want to find you and more.

Where do you reside

When you hide? How can I find you?

'Cause I want to send you and more

I want to tempt you and more.

Can you tell that I am alive?

Let me prove it.

You and I, we're the same.

Live and die, we're the same.

You rejoice, I complain,

but you and I, we're the same.

Live and die, we're the same.

You and I, we're the same.

Hear my voice, know my name,

you and I, you and I.

Winter In My Heart lyrics - The Avett Brothers

It must be winter in my heart

There's nothing warm in there at all

I missed the summer and the spring

The floating yellow leaves of fall

A million colors fill my eyes

The roman candles and the stars

The calendar says July 4

But it's still winter in my heart

They say flowers bloom in spring

Red and golden, blue and pink

They say seasons turn in time

Theirs are changing, why won't mine?

It must be winter in my heart

There's nothing warm in there at all

I missed the summer and the spring

The floating yellow leaves of fall

The air in there is frigid cold

I don't know what the reasons are

The calendar says August 1

But it's still winter in my heart

They say flowers bloom in spring

Red and golden, blue and pink

They say seasons turn in time

Theirs are changing, why won't mine?

It must be winter in my heart

I don't know what the reasons are

It must be winter in my heart

Pretty Girl From Michigan lyrics - The Avett Brothers

Can you not see

What you've done

You gave your heart away like that I didn't want to fall

In love

With anyone but you did

I can still hear

The song

The melody behind the kiss you gave me

You were wrong

I was right so I walked away

And left you there

Alone

I got so tired of talking on the telephone

How many times would we say the words "Goodbye"?

I made mistakes

And one

Was telling you that I'd be there when telling-time had come

I should've said I didn't care

Oh the time I would have saved

If I had been less willing to accommodate

You'd been a little less likely to cry

You go back to the high life

And I'll go back to the low

I should've known

But now I know

There'll be no words

From you

Describing how it felt to go through what I put you through

It all makes perfect sense

The way you cut

The rope

That kept you dangling from such pitiful amounts of hope

I would have cut it too

I Never Knew You lyrics - The Avett Brothers

Well I guess it's kind of funny how

I loved you so way back when

You say I wouldn't know you now

Well I didn't even know you then

We change a lot

And no one here can stop

That train before

It gets to where it's going

At all

So I guess it's kind of funny how

I loved you so way back when

You say I wouldn't know you now

Well I didn't even know you then

I heard about the company you're keeping

And from someone who didn't have much interest

In keeping us apart

So I guess it's kind of funny how

I loved you so way back when

You say I wouldn't know you now

Well I didn't even know you then

And so I go out Friday night

And talk to anyone I can

If they can see me they can hear me

Run my mouth

I tell them all

I'd love to see you once again

Or maybe

Just run into you hanging out

You know I lie, so it comes as no surprise

When I admit that I don't really want to reunite

So I guess it's kind of funny how

I loved you so way back when

You say I wouldn't know you now

Well I didn't even know you then

No I didn't even know you then

February Seven lyrics - The Avett Brothers

I went on the search for something true

I was almost there when I found you

Sooner than my fate was wrote

A perfect blade, it slit my throat

And beads of lust released into the air

When I awoke you were standing there

I was on the mend when I fell through

The sky around was anything but blue

I found as I regained my feet, a wound across my memory

That no amount of stitches would repair

But I awoke and you were standing there

There's no fortune at the end of the road

That has no end

There's no returning to the spoils

Once you've spoiled the thought of them

There's no falling back asleep

Once you've wakened from the dream

Now I'm rested and I'm ready and I'm ready to begin

I went on the search for something real

Traded what I know for how I feel

But the ceiling and the walls collapsed

Upon the darkness I was trapped

And as the last of breath was drawn from me

Light broke in and brought me to my feet

There's no fortune at the end of the road

That has no end

There's no returning to the spoils

Once you've spoiled the thought of them

There's no falling back asleep

Once you've wakened from the dream

Now I'm rested and I'm ready and I'm ready to begin

I'm rested and I'm ready to begin

Through My Prayers lyrics - The Avett Brothers

Hard to believe I won't see you again

We were just fighting when winter began

The coldness of our words competing with the wind from the north

Still they make me shiver but in a very different way

The pages of the calendar kept turning away

I have some better words now but it's too late to say them to you

My dream of all dreams and my hope of all hopes

Is only to tell you and make sure you know

How much I love you and how much I always did

And yes, I know you loved me I could see it in your eyes

And it was in your struggle and it was in your mind

And it was in the smile you gave me when I was a kid

Feels like no one understands

And now my only chance

To talk to you is through my prayers

I only wanted to tell you I cared

Every night after and every day since

I found myself crying when the memory hits

Sometimes it knocks me down, sometimes I can just put it away

Down in my mind where I don't care to go

The pain of a lesson is letting me know

If you have love in your heart let it show while you can

Yes now I understand

But now my only chance

To talk to you is through my prayers

I only wanted to tell you I cared

I only wanted to tell you I cared

Down With The Shine lyrics - The Avett Brothers

Down with the shine, the perfect shine

That poisons the well, and ruins my mind

I get took for a ride every time

Down with the glistening shine

It's in with the new, and out with the old

Out goes the warm, and in comes the cold

It's the most predictable story told

It's in with the young, out with the old

Down with the shine, the perfect shine

That poisons the well, and ruins my mind

I get took for a ride every time

Down with the glistening shine

A belly full of high-dollar wine

A fat hand, a fat wallet too

Things change and get strange

With this movement of time

It's happening right now to you

Down with the shine, the perfect shine

That poisons the well, and ruins my mind

I get took for a ride every time

Down with the glistening shine

It's a real bad time to bring up the truth

Though we've searched we found no

Fountain of youth

Not in Spain, no where near anywhere

Close to here

There's nothing good because nothing lasts

And all that comes here, it comes here to pass

I would voice my pain but the change wouldn't last

All that comes, it comes here to pass

Down with the shine, the perfect shine

That poisons the well, and ruins my mind

I get took for a ride every time

Down with the glistening shine

I get took for a ride every time

Down with the glistening shine

A Father's First Spring lyrics - The Avett Brothers

The sweetest surrender of winter

She put up a flag it is waving

The thunder of summer is rumbling in.

And I haven't seen you in days.

And my how that feeling has changed.

Oh I have been homesick for you since we met.

I have been homesick for you.

I've got to take to the sky.

And I'll tell you what that means for you and I,

If I die it's for you.

If I die it's for you.

I never lived til I lived in your light

And my heart never beat like it does at the sight

Of you baby blue, God blessed your life.

I do not live 'less I live in your life.

I do not live 'less I live in your life.

The realest thing I ever felt

Was the blood on the floor and the love in your yell.

I was a child before

The day that I met Eleanor.

Kiss of the wind in the hills,

The clearness, the morning, the late evening thrill

Blurry and grey like the roar

The wheels on the highway above them I soar.

When I'm in my sweet daughter's eyes

My heart is now ruined for the rest of all times

There's no part of it left to give.

There's no part of it left to give.

I never lived til I lived in your light

And my heart never beat like it does at the sight

Of you baby blue, God blessed your life.

I do not live 'less I live in your life.

I do not live 'less I live in your life.

I do not live

Geraldine lyrics - The Avett Brothers

I come from a place where every name

And every face seem so familiar

In came Miss Progress in her black dress

Look at the mess, she is a killer

Much like you and I

In every case that's made

There has to be a traitor

It's me this time

And I'm trading fun for right

Will I regret the notion later?

Geraldine's a name that comes to mind

When I go back to reminiscing

Abilene's a woman for my childhood

I spent the evenings kissing

I'm a fool for dreaming her alive

And loving something cold and rocky

The homophobic gentlemen built barricades

But their efforts couldn't stop me

In came Miss Progress in her black dress

Look at the mess, she is a killer

Paul Newman vs. The Demons lyrics - The Avett Brothers

You may have to drag me away from my demons

Kicking and screaming

It's been so long now, I've been with them

Don't know where they stop and I begin

We draw a line in the sand

Will you cross it? Oh, will you die for this?

Got nothing to tell you that you don't

Through your sadness below, already know

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Live through the past again

How many times must I live through the past again?

No more

Truth beyond truth and by our design

It is very fine like Newman's wine

Oh, to be like him and walk a path

To lend a hand, do something worth a damn

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Live through the past again

How many times must I live through the past again?

No more, wait

You may have to drag me away from my demons

Kicking and screaming

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Live through the past again

How many times must I live through the past again?

No more, wait

Life lyrics - The Avett Brothers

One comes of it, love it, love it

Let go of it, love comes from it

We're not of this world for long

Faith and promise, keep me honest

When starvation falls upon us

Daylight told me he would be

Gone with cold words spoke among hers

Wretched is the tongue of their world

We're not of that world at all

We will never be

Wouldn't it be fine to stand behind

The words we say in the best of times

Oh, and you and I know all too well

About the hell and paradise right here on earth

Keep it, use it, build it, move it

Claims can't touch how time will prove it

Watch us fly as loud as we can

Let her heartbeat change what I am now

Wouldn't it be fine to stand behind

The words we say in the best of times

Oh, and you and I know all too well

About the hell and paradise right here on earth

Standing With You lyrics - The Avett Brothers

Well it's been a pretty rough

Couple of years but I think things

Will change for us

And I always will put you before me

Unless, of course, it's dangerous

Standing with you

Standing with you

I might miss the rhythm

But I'm catching the tune

And that's something for me

Yeah that's something for me

Well I told you I won't make the same mistakes again

But you know I probably will

And so many nights, go by like a flash

From a camera without any film

But we don't need to remember every single moment we've had

And I don't need understanding for every single moment I've had

As long as I'm

Standing with you

Standing with you

I might miss the rhythm

But I'm catching the tune

And that's something, for me

Yeah that's something, for me

And I'll be walking with you

And Walking with you

I might miss the meaning

But I'm catching the truth

And that's pretty good for me

Yeah that's pretty good for me

[x2:]

Well it's been a pretty rough couple of years

But I think things will change for us

Die Then Grow lyrics - The Avett Brothers

Can you say your name to me, put mine after yours?

Can we build a house of glass without windows or doors?

Will you learn to love yourself the way I know you should?

Will we find the courage there to call our friendship good?

Call it good, call it good

The world is closing in on me, I think it's time I go

And with your sad young eyes you've taught me things I didn't know

And my heart broke down to powder there and I wish I'd let it show

And I listened as you said to me you'd rather die than grow

Die than grow, die than grow

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

Don't let romance and beating hearts change what we came to do

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

So I watched as those who ask for love, demanding some respect

Became the last in line to have what they come to expect

As what nobody taught them that they so rightly deserve

And the hums of their misfortune peaked, the hardest lesson learned

Lesson learned, lesson learned

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

Don't let romance and beating hearts change what we came to do

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

To watch us fall is why they came

And fall we did, to the call of the highway

Don't go home, don't look ahead, don't look behind

Everything we were is dead

Then a well of hope and talent sprang, and I caught a glimpse of light

And I drank from there as the colors rang out loudly from your eyes

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

Don't let romance or beating hearts change what we came to do

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

Anita, my Anita, I was born to follow you

Die then grow

Die then grow

Die then grow

Die then grow