\"Lyrics
SEARCH HERE:
BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME:
#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
SITE MENU
Last Updates
Request Lyrics
Submit / Correct
Popularity Charts
VISITORS
Login / Register
Your Thoughts
My Playlists
[ More The Avett Brothers lyrics ]
add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment

Artist/Band: The Avett Brothers
Lyrics for Song: The Once And Future Carpenter
Lyrics for Album: The Carpenter [2012]



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



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 called purpose

And if I ever pass back through her town I'd 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



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 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


Album Lyrics: The Carpenter [2012]


The Avett Brothers
"The Carpenter [2012]"


1. A Father's First Spring
2. Down With The Shine
3. February Seven
4. Geraldine
5. I Never Knew You
6. Life
7. Live And Die
8. Paul Newman Vs The Demons
9. Pretty Girl From Michigan
10. The Once And Future Carpenter
11. Through My Prayers
12. Winter In My Heart