by Bill Callahan on album Bill Callahan: Live at Third Man Records

by Bill Callahan on album Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

I started out in search of ordinary things How much of a tree bends in the wind? I started telling the story without knowing the end I used to be darker, then I got lighter, then I got dark again And

by Bill Callahan on album Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

I started out in search of ordinary things How much of a tree bends in the wind? I started telling the story without knowing the end I used to be darker, then I got lighter, then I got dark again And

by Bill Callahan on album The Best of 2009: 15 Tracks From Uncut's Albums of the Year

I started out in search of ordinary things How much of a tree bends in the wind I started telling the story without knowing the end I used to be darker, then I got lighter, then I got dark again Some

by Bill Callahan on album Bill Callahan: Live at Third Man Records

by Bill Callahan on album Bill Callahan: Live at Third Man Records

by Bill Callahan on album Bill Callahan: Live at Third Man Records

by Bill Callahan on album Bill Callahan: Live at Third Man Records

by Bill Callahan on album Apocalypse

Without work's calving increments Or love's coltish punch What would I be? An animaless isthmus Beyond the sea Oh bees only swarm when they're looking for a home So I followed them I found the bees n

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

Drinking while sleeping strangers unknowingly keep me company / In the hotel bar Looking out a window that isn’t there / Looking at the carpet and the chairs The only words I’ve said today are

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

You used to take me up / I watched and learned How to fly No navigation system / Beyond our eyes Watching I always went wrong in the same place Where the river splits towards the sea That co

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

You looked like worldwide Armageddon / While you slept You looked so peaceful it scared me Don’t die just yet / And leave me Alone alone alone On this journey / Round the sun Oh, Javelin!

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

The wind is pushing the clouds along / Out of sight A power is putting them away / A power that moves things neurotically Like a widow with a rosary Everything is awing and tired of praise / Moun

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

I don’t ever want to die Do you know this arrow when it arches high To meet the eagle in the sky? The eagle flies using the river as a map A small animal in its clasp / Alive and enjoying the

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

The road is dangerous / Pretty and white Tires spinning on snow / World spinning heavy and slow And I’m headed home Time itself means nothing But time spent with you A Donald Sutherland int

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

I painted names on boats for a Summer For luck you keep the same first letter You don’t want you don’t want you don’t want bad luck at sea Rich Man’s Folly and Poor Man’s Dream I paint

by Bill Callahan on album Dream River

A barroom may entice / A seagull like me Right off the sea / Right off the sea And into the barroom The barroom the barroom Barroom Barroom And let go / Yeah let go of the trapeze And melt t

by Bill Callahan on album Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

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by Bill Callahan on album Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Somewhere between the wind and the dove Lies all I sought in you And when the wind just dies, when the wind just dies And the dove won't rise From your window sill Well I cannot tell you Which w

by Bill Callahan on album Rough Travel for a Rare Thing

I could not work So I threw a bottle into the woods And then I felt bad For the doe paw And the rabbit paw So I went looking for the pieces Of the bottle that I threw Because I couldn’t work