Be this sunset, one for keeping This June bug street sings low and lovely Those Band-Aid children chased your dog away She runs, returning, sun still sinking
Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees Love to say this to your face, "I'll love you only" For your days and excitement What will you keep for to wear?
Someday drawing you different May I be weaved in your hair?
And the white tooth man who sold me a gun A map of Canaan and a government bond Said, "I love this town, but it ain't the same" / Said the plain clothes cop to the holy ghost "I've heard nothing if it wasn't the wind" And we all got sick on a strip club meal While the statehouse was frying all the witches again
Almost home with an olive branch and a dove You were beating on a Persian rug With your Bible and your wedding band Both hidden on the TV stand / Almost home and got lost on our new street While your grievin' girls all died in their sleep So the dogs all went unfed A great dream of bones all piled on the bed
There ain't a penthouse Christian wants the pain of the scab but they all want the scar / And even the last of the black-eyed babies say That every saint has a chair you can borrow and a church to sell
A boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans Then making a wish he tossed in the sea Walked to a town that all of us burn When God left the ground to circle the world
Now I'm a fat house cat Nursing my sore blunt tongue Watching the warm poison rats Curl through the wide fence cracks / Have I found you? Flightless bird Grounded, bleeding
適合睡前聽的歌或各種意義道晚安的歌，一天選一首，可能會多推薦同一組創作者或同一部作品OST的其他首歌。
餘燼和焦煙，火星還在低語，你想要繼續燃燒。
▎The snake in the basement
▎Found the juniper shade
▎The farmhouse is burning down
餘燼與焦煙
地下室的蛇
找到杜松樹蔭
農舍正在燃燒
▎Some whispers around the trees
▎The juniper bends
▎As if you were listening
餘燼與焦煙
樹旁環繞低語聲
杜松枝幹低垂
像你側耳傾聽
▎You asked me to pray for rain
▎With ash in your mouth
▎You'll ask it to burn again
餘燼與焦煙
你要求我祈求下雨
嘴裡還有灰燼
你想再次燃燒
餘燼和焦煙，火星還在低語，你想要繼續燃燒。房舍也可以是關係的隱喻，但我覺得這首歌更像描述過往的混亂與災難，屋子著火，火焰沖天，消防員挖出醉酒的母親和緊抱相框的父親。敘事者看著女孩滿臉炭渣，對他伸出手。
Iron & Wine是Sam Beam的個人樂團，歌詞平易近人，小小的日常敘事，可能是日落印象，或者某種味道，偶爾他也寫一些不愉快的事件，而他就是把畫面唱出來，喜歡這種平淡。細密的空心吉他，歌聲溫暖，帶點蒼涼，是可以放心呼吸不用擔心打擾的旋律。
比較常聽Our Endless Numbered Days和The Shepherd's Dog，推歌都從這兩張裡頭找
Be this sunset, one for keeping
This June bug street sings low and lovely
Those Band-Aid children chased your dog away
She runs, returning, sun still sinking
Down and down
Once again
Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees
Love to say this to your face, "I'll love you only"
For your days and excitement
What will you keep for to wear?
Someday drawing you different
May I be weaved in your hair?
Or the ghost of a friend?
All the while that she wept
She'd a gun by her bed
And the letter he wrote
From a dry, foundered boat
Papa died Sunday and I understood
All dead white boys say, "God is good"
White tongues hang out, "God is good"
And the white tooth man who sold me a gun
A map of Canaan and a government bond
Said, "I love this town, but it ain't the same"
/
Said the plain clothes cop to the holy ghost
"I've heard nothing if it wasn't the wind"
And we all got sick on a strip club meal
While the statehouse was frying all the witches again
Almost home with an olive branch and a dove
You were beating on a Persian rug
With your Bible and your wedding band
Both hidden on the TV stand
/
Almost home and got lost on our new street
While your grievin' girls all died in their sleep
So the dogs all went unfed
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed
There ain't a penthouse Christian wants the pain of the scab but they all want the scar
/
And even the last of the black-eyed babies say
That every saint has a chair you can borrow and a church to sell
A boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans
Then making a wish he tossed in the sea
Walked to a town that all of us burn
When God left the ground to circle the world
Now I'm a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
/
Have I found you? Flightless bird
Grounded, bleeding