“The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don’t dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
“Who knows, who knows, who knows, who knows
I just go where the trade winds blows
Sending love to my friends and foes
And I suppose I’m pleased
To be chilling in the West Indies
Jah provide all my wants and needs
I got the sunshine rivers and trees
And green leaves”
“It’s time to move on, time to get going
What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing
But under my feet, baby, grass is growing
It’s time to move on, it’s time to get going”
“Fruity lipstick on your cheek
I haven’t been home in a week
I’m cool with that,
I’ve got the sun to worry about
Let’s get started truth or dare
A million flowers in my hair
I’m cool with that
I’ve got the beach to worry about
I can feel the sand on my skin
And my drink is kicking in
And if you ever feel like leaving her
I’ll be here drinking my coconut water”
“Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean’s roar
Play for free, I play for me, I play a whole lot more, more!
Sing about the good things and the sun that lights the day
I used to sing to the mountains, has the ocean lost its way?
I don’t know.”
“By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake
I had my head out the window and Janey’s fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her ‘cause I was too loose to fake
I said, “I’m hurt.” She said, “Honey, let me heal it”
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice
Just as soft as a spirit in the night”
“I can’t look at the rocket launch
The trophy wives of the astronauts
And i won’t listen to their words
’Cause i like
Birds
I don’t care for walking downtown
Crazy auto-car gonna mow me down
Look at all the people like cows in a herd
Well, i like
Birds”
“I creep through the valleys
And I grope through the woods
’cause I know when I find it my honey
It’s gonna make me feel good
I love everything
So don’t it make you feel sad
’cause I’ll drink to you, my baby
I’ll think to that.”
“When the last light warms the rocks and the rattlesnakes unfold,
Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones.
And rise with me forever across the silent sand,
And the stars will be your eyes and the wind will be my hands.”
“Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I’ve come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had
The summer shone beat down on bony backs
So far from home where the ocean stood
Down dust and pine cone tracks
We slept like dogs down by the fire side
Awoke to the fog all around us
The boom of summer time”
“Down here, where’s we’re at
The weather changes, that’s the way it goes
Sometimes it snows, when everything’s wrong
Sometimes it snows, but when it does, it doesn’t last long
Down here, where we’re at
All we do is sit out on the porch
And play our songs, and nothing’s wrong
Sometime friends come around, they all sing along
Down here, where we’re at
Everyone is equally poor
Down here, we don’t care
We don’t care what happens outside the screen door”
“Hey, buddy do you got the time?
No I don’t got a watch, can you spare a dime?
I only got two olives and a couple of limes,
Guessin’ that means it’s martini time.”
“There’s a dark and a troubled side of life
There’s a bright and a sunny side too
Though we meet with the darkness and strife
The sunny side we also may view
Keep on the sunny side always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life
It will help us every day it will brighten all our way
If we keep on the sunny side of life”
“I can smell your cigarettes in my dreams
I’m filling your pockets with gasoline
Maybe I’ll catch you in the dark
What a beautiful bonfire we could start”
“Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun
Oh but mama, that’s where the fun is”
“Come on, girl
Let’s sneak out of this party
It’s getting boring
There’s more to life than this
It’s still early morning
We could go down to the harbor
And jump between the boats
And see the sun come up
There’s more to life than this
I could nick a boat
And sneak off to this island
I could bring my little ghetto blaster
There’s more to life than this”
“So baby let’s sell your diamond ring
Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away
This coat and tie is choking me
In your high society you cry all day
We’ve been so busy
Keepin’ up with the Jones
Four car garage and we’re still building on
Maybe it’s time we got
Back to the basics of love”
“I remember T-shirt weather
I remember some days
We were singing our lungs out
in the backseat together
And the seatbelts were burning our fingers
In the T-shirt weather
I remember sleeping till the early afternoon”
“Oh man, feel so nice
That was a long cold night
But then the sun came out to thaw the ice
Open the window man to smell the peach blossom
The tiger lily, the merry-gold
Oh look at her, she’s got something to say
And I cant wait to hear it
Won’t let her get away”
“A monument to build beneath the arbors
Upon a cliff the that towers towards the trees
Let every vessel pitching hard to starboard
Lay it’s head on summers freckled knees”
Bring Limes is dedicated to beaches, bonfires, vagabonds, and doing what you love.
