The Handsome Family Lyrics

#1 Country Song I remember the day my little brother brought you 'round I…
24-Hour Store Late, late at night Twenty-four hour store Ghosts fly up the…
3-Legged Dog Like a 3-legged dog you've called in sick. Sure there's…
A Beautiful Thing Don't you remember that snowy December When we went to see…
A Dark Eye In the parking lot where I waited alone A white bird…
A Shadow Underneath Lisa heard a whisper in her computer screen And in the…
A Thousand Diamond Rings A smashed windshield, the dust on a pickup truck Shine with…
After We Shot The Grizzly After we shot the grizzly After the airship crashed After …
Ain't No Grave There ain′t no grave can hold my body down There ain't…
All The Time In Airports I see you all the time in airports In the windows…
All the TVs in Town You can't see the stars above the city skyline But sometimes…
Amelia Earhart Vs. The Dancing Bear Amelia, Amelia Earhart, after her plane was torn apart and…
Arlene Arlene, I'm sorry for what I've done I wasn't looking for…



Back In My Day We had maps that unfolded back in my day You could…
Beautiful Don't you remember that snowy December When we went to see…
Beautiful William Beautiful William One morning in May In a milk-white conve…
Big Bad Wolf Sometimes I wear a bikini Dream about black holes Sometimes …
Birds You Cannot See There are birds in the darkness That douse electrical fires …
Bowling Alley Bar Dented cars make me think of you Sitting on a red…
Bury Me Here Down that foggy road Slow centipedes crawl Plum blackberries…
Caterpillars Sylvia was struck by lightning While reading in bed one…
Cathedrals the Cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship like the han…
Claire Said Claire said, ""Take care of yourself,"" she says As she drov…
Cold Cold Cold Cold, cold, cold As the cold wind blows Cold, cold, cold As …
Darling My Darling Darling, my darling, look at my waving antennae My barbed ja…
Don't Be Scared When, whenever Paul Thinks of rain Swallows fall in a wave A…
Down In The Ground I am not afraid when you call me down Down the…
Down in the Valley Down in the valley of hollow logs Two lovers lay in…
Drunk By Noon There once was a poodle who thought he was a…
Dry Bones Old Enoch, he lived to be Three-hundred and sixty-five When …
Eels They used to think the swallows were living underwater All t…
Eleanor Rigby Oh, look at all the lonely people Oh, look at all…
Emily Shore 1819-1839 She'd been coughing up blood Since the dogwoods bloomed Se…
Everything That Rises Some folks are like umbrellas They pass through your life wi…
Fallen Peaches We came down a black dirt hill Between the rows of…
Famous Blue Raincoat It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing…
Far From Any Road From the dusty mesa Her looming shadow grows Hidden in the b…
Flapping Your Broken Wings I can still see you there in your grass-stained underwear D…
flies Your fan of golden hair oiled with rose and cinnamon…
frogs Have you ever seen a fish leap up from a…
Gail With the Golden Hair Out in the red rock desert Sitting on the roof of…
Gentlemen Gentlemen, I tell you now I swear the truth I saw the…
Giant Ant Butterflies are monsters when you look at them too close And…
Glow Worm Up the snowy spires, where the air is thin as…
Gold Got a tattoo of a snake and a ski mask…
Gorilla Magilla Gorilla and Phyllis Diller Having lunch with a seria…
Grandmother Waits for You Grandmother waits for you with a pair of new shoes…
Gravity There's a blind man who hears angels He hears them whisperin…
Gulls Good Dr. Brown, he fell in love with a girl…
Happy Harvest Flowers, flowers, don't be sad We'll put you in a vase Puppi…
Here's Hopin' Here's hopin' the food don't get cold and the phone…
Hunter Green Last fall I hunted white-tail deer My dog and gun with…
I Fell There's a mountain north of Winnipeg Buried under ice And as…
I Know You Are There When the rope of death strangles And dark waters roar and…
If the World Should End in Fire If the world should end in fire The oceans boiling into…
If the World Should End in Ice If the world should end in ice In days of endless…
In the Air I am afraid of bridges Sometimes I have to turn around…
Invisible Man Can you see your hands Without bathing them in blood Can you…
Joseph Smash the windows. Lock the doors Cover the mirrors. Call th…
June Bugs I want to kiss you in thickets and dripping wet…
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues When you're lost in the rain in Juarez when it's…
king of dust I dreamed that I was flying above the glittering world But…
Knoxville Girl I met a little girl in Knoxville A town we all…
Lake Geneva You are crouched before the fire In a state park by…
Last Night I Went Out Walking Last night I went out walking Out on the edge of…
Lie Down Tuesday at dawn, Michael's glasses washed ashore With a styr…
Linger Let Me Linger Like the thorn bush twines against the chain link fence Like…
Little Sparrows All you little sparrows on a swaying branch Singing to the…
Lizard Granny Green was stooped as a windblown branch She lived hig…
Love Is Like Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping…
Moving Furniture Took a walk down the alley today I'm getting used to…
My Beautiful Bride Out in the heather where the sun burns bright She…
My Friend I swear I heard a bird Calling high in the chestnut…
My Ghost My ghost drives around with a bag of dead fish Falling…
My Sister's Tiny Hands We came in this world together Legs wrapped around each othe…
My Sister’s Tiny Hands We came in this world together Legs wrapped around each oth…
No One Fell Asleep Alone I saw a deer limp across A supermarket parking lot Last ni…
octopus The octopus has three hearts, it lives in caves below…
One Way Up How can you say there's only one way up When you…
Our Blue Sky Why do you dream of pearly white gates High in the…
Owls The blue house at the corner of Twilight and State Four…
Passenger Pigeons Ever since you moved out I've been living in the park I'd…
Peace in the Valley Once Again When they closed the last shopping mall Crickets sang in cru…
Pony Mae West was a man who liked the feel of…
Poor Poor Lenore Poor, poor Lenore carried off by crows As she wandered…
She Awoke With a Jerk She awoke with a jerk What had they done? She awoke with…
Sleepy I woke up from a sound sleep They were all around…
so long So long to my dog Snickers, who ate Christmas tinsel So…
So Much Wine I had nothing to say on Christmas day When you…
Somewhere Else To Be I didn't wrap my head in roses I didn't run screaming…
Spider In the shadows, in the bushes, in the space between…
Stalled The giant of Illinois Died from a blister on his toe After…
Sunday Mornin Comin Down Well I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold…
Tesla's Hotel Room In the last days of wonder When spirits still flew Where w…
The Bottomless Hole My name I don't remember, though, I hail from Ohio I…
The Dutch Boy My heart it goes out to that poor little Dutch…
The Forgotten Lake Come with me to the forgotten lake Where covered wagons and…
The Giant Of Illinois The giant of Illinois Died from a blister on his toe After…
The House Carpenter Well met, well met said an old true love. Well…
The King Of Everything See the grey dove Up in the green elm tree Raising his…
The King Who Wouldn't Smile There was a king who wouldn't smile Sat on the toilet…
The Last When you're too old to hit the timbers But you still…
The Loneliness of Magnets My heart is a beating compass pointing to the pole The…
The Lost Soul What an awful day (repeat) When the judgement comes, (repeat…
The Oldest Water Some water tastes colder Been rattling through time In and o…
The Petrified Forest When we were together I lay in your river As the…
The Red Door You appeared upon the white shore On a dark and moonless…
The Sad Milkman Above the dark highway, on a black tar roof Stood the…
The Sea Rose Wrapped in the weeds of the shallows In the moon's drifting…
The Silver Light There is no day or night In the forest of slot…
The Snow White Diner I am eating hash browns in the snow white diner Outside…
The Song of a Hundred Toads On my way out to the gold mines Crossing the western…
The White Dog Last night my window opened In the cold winter breeze And …
The Winding Corn Maze I came to a field of green Where the corn stalks…
The Woman Downstairs Chicago is where the woman downstairs Starved herself to dea…
There Is a Sound There is a sound like breaking glass When water falls on…
These Golden Jewels I left a black shoe hanging From a telephone wire I threw…
Tin Foil Late New Year's Eve, paper hat on your head, It's hard…
Tinfoil Late New Year's Eve, paper hat on your head, It's hard…
Tiny Tina Last September at the state fair Past the ferris wheel and…
Underneath The Falls The green one sleeps Underneath the falls Deep in the roar o…
Up Falling Rock Hill Up Falling Rock Hill where the leaves swoop like bats I…
Water Into Wine I heard tell of the miracles my blessed saviour done He…
Weightless Again We stopped for coffee in the Redwood forest Giant dripping l…
When That Helicopter Comes It's gonna rain champagne and the hills are gonna dance Ther…
When the Helicopter Comes It's gonna rain champagne and the hills are gonna dance The…
When You Whispered Up on the drawbridge when we stood in the wind My…
Where the Birch Trees Lean now that there are green sproutspushing through dead leaves …
White Lights When you walked with me away from the strip mall…
Whitehaven What a hideous forest surrounded Whitehaven Twisted black m…
Wild Wood Give me a swamp, a deep dark bog Where I can…
Wildebeest When Stephen Foster died in a flop-house on the Bowery His…
Winnebago Skeletons There's a fish in my stomach a thousand years old Can't…
Woodpecker Lovely Mary Sweeney, the famous window smasher Was just a q…
Your Great Journey Like four million tons of hydrogen Exploding on the sun Li…