Life cannot be written
It only can be lived
An endless sea of vision
For each is born within
And death is not an issue
It cannot break my heart
And I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
No, I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
Love is what they gave me
And love is what I give you
It's in the smallest movement
It fills the starless void
Our fingertips were touching
Though light-years passed between us
No enеrgy created
No enеrgy destroyed
Life cannot be written
It can only be lived
An endless sea of vision
For each is born within
And death is not an issue
It cannot break my heart
And I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
No, I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
The work is set before us
The path is clear and cold
The new year is only six days old
I didn't want to leave all my discoveries behind
But another me left long ago
And I know he's doing fine
Life cannot be written
It only can be lived
An endless sea of vision
For each is born within
And death is not an issue
It cannot break my heart
And I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
No, I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
Avett Brothers - The Avett Brothers Album Lyrics
Avett Brothers - The Avett Brothers Lyrics
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Jr Crawford, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Love Of A Girl
I've got regret, soul debt
Gotta get one hit
Sunlit, unfit
Still owe my alma matter
Nightmare, slow throwin' haymakers underwater
Gotta get my head right
Love you, goodnight
Gotta get cleaned up
Pressed up, dressed up
Sun down comes around
Find me with my head down
Toes turned in with my hands in my pockets
Like a present day hesitatin' Huckleberry Finn
So I sneak out, peace out
Peek out the curtains of a blacked out bedroom
Passed out cartoon version of a person
With a whole herd of sheep
Just floatin' in a circle with some capital Z's
Never find me waiting kindly
For someone to come remind me
Why I struggle so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl
I've got one older brother
He's a fighter and a lover
And every other day he seems to rediscover
What the underlying meaning
Of the dreaming and the scheming is
History colliding with the soul and the showbiz
Don't save much for a touchdown celebration (no, no)
Runnin' out the tunnel on a hundred foot elevation
Racin' through the scene like a drop of gasoline
Through a 427 in a Ford Galaxie
Never find me waiting patient
For someone to come explain it
Why I suffer so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl
It's a hard up, hard luck planet that we're livin' on
Heartache partaken of the blue ribbon
On most of the trails that we didn't put rails on
Showing at the funeral home with bells on
Gotta get woken up opened up all the way
Lawyer on the phone saying, "Hey I just called to say
Still two or three bills in the mail on the way
Hope ya doin' alright, hope ya had a great day"
Well, as a matter of fact
I ain't really doin' half bad
I was out running errands
From early 'til half past four
And I got a good deal on flowers at the grocery store
Never find me waiting kindly
For someone to come remind me
Why I struggle so, why I struggle so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl
Gotta get one hit
Sunlit, unfit
Still owe my alma matter
Nightmare, slow throwin' haymakers underwater
Gotta get my head right
Love you, goodnight
Gotta get cleaned up
Pressed up, dressed up
Sun down comes around
Find me with my head down
Toes turned in with my hands in my pockets
Like a present day hesitatin' Huckleberry Finn
So I sneak out, peace out
Peek out the curtains of a blacked out bedroom
Passed out cartoon version of a person
With a whole herd of sheep
Just floatin' in a circle with some capital Z's
Never find me waiting kindly
For someone to come remind me
Why I struggle so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl
I've got one older brother
He's a fighter and a lover
And every other day he seems to rediscover
What the underlying meaning
Of the dreaming and the scheming is
History colliding with the soul and the showbiz
Don't save much for a touchdown celebration (no, no)
Runnin' out the tunnel on a hundred foot elevation
Racin' through the scene like a drop of gasoline
Through a 427 in a Ford Galaxie
Never find me waiting patient
For someone to come explain it
Why I suffer so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl
It's a hard up, hard luck planet that we're livin' on
Heartache partaken of the blue ribbon
On most of the trails that we didn't put rails on
Showing at the funeral home with bells on
Gotta get woken up opened up all the way
Lawyer on the phone saying, "Hey I just called to say
Still two or three bills in the mail on the way
Hope ya doin' alright, hope ya had a great day"
Well, as a matter of fact
I ain't really doin' half bad
I was out running errands
From early 'til half past four
And I got a good deal on flowers at the grocery store
Never find me waiting kindly
For someone to come remind me
Why I struggle so, why I struggle so
Well, it's all for the love of a girl
Writer: Robert Crawford, Scott Avett, Timothy Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Cheap Coffee
Cheap coffee brewing in the kitchen
From the baby's room,
You were calling me
First steps I missed,
Made up by the second ones.
In a three room apartment
All of eight hundred square feet
I didn't know how,
I didn't know how
Good it was
I didn't know how,
I didn't know how
Good it was
Moonlight on your breast
Broken by the black straps of your dress
Broken by my grip
First love I missed
Made up by the last one
Makes me smile as the last of my memory slips
Into the past
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
It could go so fast
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
It could go so fast
When I think about the two of us
And what could happen just because
Something can break,
It don't mean that it will
What were we waiting for?
All dreamt and so much more
It was ours,
But it's ours still
Little hands building things
Climbing mountains, tracing stars, and chasing dreams
First light I missed made up
By the afterglow
I can still feel your warmth of your love light
Shining on me
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
Good it could be
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
Good it could be
Didn't know,
Didn't know
It could go so fast
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
It could go so fast"
From the baby's room,
You were calling me
First steps I missed,
Made up by the second ones.
In a three room apartment
All of eight hundred square feet
I didn't know how,
I didn't know how
Good it was
I didn't know how,
I didn't know how
Good it was
Moonlight on your breast
Broken by the black straps of your dress
Broken by my grip
First love I missed
Made up by the last one
Makes me smile as the last of my memory slips
Into the past
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
It could go so fast
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
It could go so fast
When I think about the two of us
And what could happen just because
Something can break,
It don't mean that it will
What were we waiting for?
All dreamt and so much more
It was ours,
But it's ours still
Little hands building things
Climbing mountains, tracing stars, and chasing dreams
First light I missed made up
By the afterglow
I can still feel your warmth of your love light
Shining on me
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
Good it could be
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
Good it could be
Didn't know,
Didn't know
It could go so fast
Didn't know how,
Didn't know how
It could go so fast"
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Jr Crawford, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Forever Now
How long is now?
We could stay but we don't know how
Some say forever
Who are these men?
I wanna live
Forever now with them
How far is heaven?
Is it in the air we breathe?
Some say before us
And it's always been
I wanna live
Forever now with them
How long is now?
How gone is yesteryear?
If you've ever been,
How can you ever disappear?
I have to sink & rise & sink
& rise again
And how far am I away from you?
You've always been
At the heart of Providence
And I want to love forever now within
Sink & rise
Sink & rise
Sink & rise
Again."
We could stay but we don't know how
Some say forever
Who are these men?
I wanna live
Forever now with them
How far is heaven?
Is it in the air we breathe?
Some say before us
And it's always been
I wanna live
Forever now with them
How long is now?
How gone is yesteryear?
If you've ever been,
How can you ever disappear?
I have to sink & rise & sink
& rise again
And how far am I away from you?
You've always been
At the heart of Providence
And I want to love forever now within
Sink & rise
Sink & rise
Sink & rise
Again."
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Jr Crawford, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Country Kid
I was a country kid through and through
I got my bare feet bit by a wreckin' crew
Of fire ants on a mission
For total domination of the font yard
Three years old on a ramshackle farm
Winnie the Pooh in the crook of my arm
Brother and sister not meaning no harm, pickin' on me
I was a country kid with a strong foundation
Gettin' myself a whole second education in the back of the bus
Kids kissin' and cussin' all around me
One more pickup in the trailer park
Hand to mouth, livin'll break a young heart
Beautiful girl with a hard, hard look in her eyes
Then I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
I was a country kid shootin' hoops in the dirt
Hidin' smokes in the pocket of a homemade shirt
Runnin' laps in the yard until my little legs hurt and then goin' again
Six feet of air off a plywood ramp
Dad's welding machine parked where I would land
All I could taste was blood, all I could feel were the rocks
In the palms of my hands
I was a country kid throwin' parties in the woods
Draggin' my friends out of their neighborhoods
Jealous of their cable TV and their girls next door
Slippin' off into the dark of the night
The shape of a body traced by moonlight
Interrupted by some other kid wantin' to fight over her
Then I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Flowing fast like the Mississippi, woo
I was a country kid
Now I'm grown, with a job and a wife and a son of my own
Navigatin' time zones, inspectin' the bones of the second half
Talkin' to God a little more often
Less requests and more sayin' thank you
For every single town and every single acre in between
'Cause I grew up and hit the city
But that metropolis'll never get me
I fly above it all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Yeah, I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
I got my bare feet bit by a wreckin' crew
Of fire ants on a mission
For total domination of the font yard
Three years old on a ramshackle farm
Winnie the Pooh in the crook of my arm
Brother and sister not meaning no harm, pickin' on me
I was a country kid with a strong foundation
Gettin' myself a whole second education in the back of the bus
Kids kissin' and cussin' all around me
One more pickup in the trailer park
Hand to mouth, livin'll break a young heart
Beautiful girl with a hard, hard look in her eyes
Then I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
I was a country kid shootin' hoops in the dirt
Hidin' smokes in the pocket of a homemade shirt
Runnin' laps in the yard until my little legs hurt and then goin' again
Six feet of air off a plywood ramp
Dad's welding machine parked where I would land
All I could taste was blood, all I could feel were the rocks
In the palms of my hands
I was a country kid throwin' parties in the woods
Draggin' my friends out of their neighborhoods
Jealous of their cable TV and their girls next door
Slippin' off into the dark of the night
The shape of a body traced by moonlight
Interrupted by some other kid wantin' to fight over her
Then I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Flowing fast like the Mississippi, woo
I was a country kid
Now I'm grown, with a job and a wife and a son of my own
Navigatin' time zones, inspectin' the bones of the second half
Talkin' to God a little more often
Less requests and more sayin' thank you
For every single town and every single acre in between
'Cause I grew up and hit the city
But that metropolis'll never get me
I fly above it all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Yeah, I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Writer: Robert William Crawford Jr, Scott Yancey Avett, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Orion's Belt
Dead heading
East to west,
Taking my memories,
Leaving this place.
Earning my heartache,
Holding it tight.
Owning my history outright
Like mine was the best
Everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing
Under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
Dead in my tracks,
Old and tired
Real time really done a number
Toes in the sand at the edge of the sea
Mother of mothers coming for me
Like mine was the best
Now everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing
Under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
I hear the same words
Leaving the mouth of my enemy
Troubled the same
I fear the worst
How complicated it can get to be
Trying to land in the same place
Where can I go
For a little bit of peace?
Too much racket up in DC
Whole lotta talking and
Money changing hands
Little bitty men with big plans
Like theirs was the best
Now everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing
Under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
When it's beyond Orion's Belt"
East to west,
Taking my memories,
Leaving this place.
Earning my heartache,
Holding it tight.
Owning my history outright
Like mine was the best
Everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing
Under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
Dead in my tracks,
Old and tired
Real time really done a number
Toes in the sand at the edge of the sea
Mother of mothers coming for me
Like mine was the best
Now everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing
Under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
I hear the same words
Leaving the mouth of my enemy
Troubled the same
I fear the worst
How complicated it can get to be
Trying to land in the same place
Where can I go
For a little bit of peace?
Too much racket up in DC
Whole lotta talking and
Money changing hands
Little bitty men with big plans
Like theirs was the best
Now everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing
Under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
When it's beyond Orion's Belt"
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Jr Crawford, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
2020 Regret
I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
So many moments pass me by
My lover's hope is bound to fade
A night with you is such a precious thing to miss
Here I go again
Pissing it away
But I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
I spent all that precious time
Somewhere else back then
Even when I wasn't gone
I might as well have been
Lord, I regret plenty
With this twenty-twenty view
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you
I let my fear of loss take hold
I will the fate of your heart
I couldn't blame you
If you discovered the things you wanted
Far away from me
And went to where they are
Turned away from me
And went to where they are
But I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
I spent all that precious time
Somewhere else back then
Even when I wasn't gone
I might as well have been
Lord, I regret plenty
With this twenty-twenty view
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
So many moments pass me by
My lover's hope is bound to fade
A night with you is such a precious thing to miss
Here I go again
Pissing it away
But I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
I spent all that precious time
Somewhere else back then
Even when I wasn't gone
I might as well have been
Lord, I regret plenty
With this twenty-twenty view
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you
I let my fear of loss take hold
I will the fate of your heart
I couldn't blame you
If you discovered the things you wanted
Far away from me
And went to where they are
Turned away from me
And went to where they are
But I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
I spent all that precious time
Somewhere else back then
Even when I wasn't gone
I might as well have been
Lord, I regret plenty
With this twenty-twenty view
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Jr Crawford, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Same Broken Bones
Somebody's waiting for me
There's an answer that I have been chasing
Always a change in my hometown to see
I'm running so fast
Who am I racing?
There's always something to do
But it don't fill the holes that it promises to
Now everything starts to move on its own
Carrying me too far away
Somebody's calling my phone
Begging for me to come home
Every town has the same broken bones
And loneliness
Does there have to be silence
To hear the truth?
I don't know that I'll find it
But I may know where to look
I am awakе in the dark
Alone at the kitchеn table
Taking the time to feel time passing by
Perfectly still
Perfectly here
Now everything starts to move
As if by some common magic
Shadows and sparrows and the very sky
Moving my heart
Standing me up
Someone is waiting for me
Somewhere apart from the part I can see
He never visits except in my dreams
Just out of reach
Gone but still close
There's an answer that I have been chasing
Always a change in my hometown to see
I'm running so fast
Who am I racing?
There's always something to do
But it don't fill the holes that it promises to
Now everything starts to move on its own
Carrying me too far away
Somebody's calling my phone
Begging for me to come home
Every town has the same broken bones
And loneliness
Does there have to be silence
To hear the truth?
I don't know that I'll find it
But I may know where to look
I am awakе in the dark
Alone at the kitchеn table
Taking the time to feel time passing by
Perfectly still
Perfectly here
Now everything starts to move
As if by some common magic
Shadows and sparrows and the very sky
Moving my heart
Standing me up
Someone is waiting for me
Somewhere apart from the part I can see
He never visits except in my dreams
Just out of reach
Gone but still close
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Jr Crawford, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
We Are Loved
Whether we speak up,
Or we are silent
If we are willing
Or we are done
If we're courageous
Or we are cowards
We may be burdened,
But we are loved.
Whether we stay true
And do for another
If we are hidden
Or we're discovered
If we're forgiven
Or we're forgotten
We may be lonely,
But we are loved.
Every stitch & seam
Every wish & dream
Even in tragedy:
There lies divinity.
Even as hope seems lost,
It may be found again.
I have felt alone,
But I have never been.
If you are standing
Or cannot stop moving
Whether you're haunted
Or cannot remember
Over the gravestone,
Under the rainbow
Pain comes and pain goes,
And we are loved.
Every stitch & seam
Every wish & dream
Even in tragedy:
There lies divinity.
Even as hope seems lost,
It may be found again.
I have felt alone,
But I have never been.
If we are spirit
Or we are human
Crossing the river
Or harboring change
If we deny it
Or if we face it
May we embrace it
We are loved."
Or we are silent
If we are willing
Or we are done
If we're courageous
Or we are cowards
We may be burdened,
But we are loved.
Whether we stay true
And do for another
If we are hidden
Or we're discovered
If we're forgiven
Or we're forgotten
We may be lonely,
But we are loved.
Every stitch & seam
Every wish & dream
Even in tragedy:
There lies divinity.
Even as hope seems lost,
It may be found again.
I have felt alone,
But I have never been.
If you are standing
Or cannot stop moving
Whether you're haunted
Or cannot remember
Over the gravestone,
Under the rainbow
Pain comes and pain goes,
And we are loved.
Every stitch & seam
Every wish & dream
Even in tragedy:
There lies divinity.
Even as hope seems lost,
It may be found again.
I have felt alone,
But I have never been.
If we are spirit
Or we are human
Crossing the river
Or harboring change
If we deny it
Or if we face it
May we embrace it
We are loved."
Writer: Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Jr Crawford, Timothy Seth Avett
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
