lisa hannigan – tiny desk concert

At the NPR Music offices, October 2011. I fall in love with her a little bit more every time I watch her. Wow.

Set List:
“Knots”
“Little Bird”
“Passenger”

It was early in the morning,
we were sitting on the stoop,
there wheeled away a starling
and I thought that I would too.
Oh for all I knew,
I was lost through and through,
in my high heels and my old dress
with my new keys in the wrong city.
I tie the knots to remember in my heart,
so I choke and I sputter to a stop,
I am a borrower and lender of the lot.
I walk away asleep
and chalk an outline round the scene.
This shadow play of whiskey talk,
a heavy denier dream.
Oh let it be, I was lost in him and me.
In my high heels and my old dress
with my new keys in the wrong city.
I tie the knots to remember in my heart,
so I choke and I sputter to a stop,
I am a borrower and lender of the lot.

anna calvi – tiny desk concert

A slow build takes place in just three short songs performed at the NPR Music offices in January 2012 – from a guitar instrumental to the final primal cry of “Jezebel”. Calvi plays three songs from her self-titled debut in this powerful performance at the NPR Music offices: “River To The Sea”, “Surrender” and “Jezebel”.

waving goodbye for hello

today we buy time
we find a pin
for the sun
to hold it up longer
in the sky
we fool an entire population
that it is still midday
when she has long departed
we purchase that hour past
and do nothing in it
but sleep
and dream of more days to sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep
nuzzling her forever
in that sleep
forever in that sleep.