Album: Folklore (deluxe version)
Year: 2020
-Favorite lyrics from each song-
1. the 1
I hit the Sunday matinée. You know the greatest films of all time were never made
2. cardigan
I knew you leavin' like a father, running like water
•But I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs. The smell of smoke would hang around this long, 'cause I knew everything when I was young
3. the last great american dynasty
I had a marvelous time ruining everything
4. exile (featuring bon iver)
I think I've seen this film before, and I didn't like the ending. You're not my homeland anymore, so what am I defending now?
•All this time, I never learned to read your mind (never learned to read my mind), I couldn't turn things around (you never turned things around), 'Cause you never gave a warning sign (I gave so many signs)
5. my tears ricochet
We gather stones, never knowing what they'll mean. Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring
•I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, 'cause when I'd fight, you used to tell me I was brave
•And I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want, just not home. And you can aim for my heart, go for blood. But you would still miss me in your bones. And I still talk to you when I'm screaming at the sky. And when you can't sleep at night, you hear my stolen lullabies
•I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, and so the battleships will sink beneath the waves. You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same
6. mirrorball
I'm a mirrorball. I'll show you every version of yourself tonight
7. seven
And though I can't recall your face, I still got love for you
•And I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted. Your dad is always mad and that must be why. I think you should come live with me, and we can be pirates. Then you won't have to cry, or hide in the closet
8. august
Wanting was enough. For me, it was enough to live for the hope of it all
9. this is me trying
They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential
•And it's hard to be at a party when I feel like an open wound. It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you. You're a flashback in a film reel on the one screen in my town
10. illicit affairs
They show their truth one single time, but they lie, and they lie, and they lie a million little times
•You showed me colors you know
I can't see with anyone else
11. invisible string
A string that pulled me out of all the wrong arms right into that dive bar. Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire. Chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons. One single thread of gold tied me to you
12. mad woman
The master of spin has a couple side flings. Good wives always know. She should be mad, should be scathing like me, but no one likes a mad woman
13. epiphany
Only 20 minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany. Just one single glimpse of relief to make some sense of what you've seen
14. betty
If you kiss me, will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?
15. peace
All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret
16. hoax
You knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did was just as dark. Darling, this was just as hard as when they pulled me apart
17. the lakes
A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground with no one around to tweet it, while I bathe in cliffside pools with my calamitous love, and insurmountable grief
