Carbon Leaf is a five-piece rock band from Richmond, Virginia that is known for their Celtic / Bluegrass rock that was featured more prominently on their early releases on their own label, Constant Ivy Music. Their more recent albums, since signing to Vanguard Records in 2004, are more mainstream rock, though they still retain the influences of their Virginian music scene roots. On March 20, 2010 in a radio interview on WCNR the band announced... [read more] - Let Your Troubles Roll By
Love endures, it clings awayWhen asked to leave, it begs to stayLike the perfect song, at imperfect timesIt's the way the chords struck with the rhymesSo let your troubles roll by...He knows he can help himselfHe can...
- Life Less Ordinary
Live a life less ordinary.Live a life extraordinary with me.Live a life less sanitary.Live a life evolutionary with me.Well, I hate to be a bother, but it's you and there's no other, I do believe.You can call me...
- Grey Sky Eyes
Grey sky, always in your eyeWhere is the girl behind the cloud?Grey sky, always floating byBut I only peek when I'm allowedYou welcome me inAnd your veil is so thinBut the mystery continues to growYou say you must...
- Raise The Roof
Raise the roof, that I might see the starsTo gain wisdom, to see things for what they arePlease, I need proof Dance till you fallLove till you dieShut your mouthRaise the roof Trapped in the snare with too much...
- When I'm Alone
I opened up the music boxI wish you would have changed the locksTo keep me from replayingAll the feelings I've been savingI did not keep them locked up insideI did not take my steps in strideThought you were bluffing,...
- Paloma
Chase the high ground - where you'd rather be Where you might be found Face all aglow, to leave from hereTo pack up and go But it takes some time to get awayAnd you will have to build from what remainsTo run it takes...
- Changeless
Call my friends to share some wineTo share some laughs, and last goodbyesMy photographs of these yearsWill make me laugh through the tearsWhat are the odds, what are the odds?This ends and we don't meet againWhat are...
- The Sea
I woke up from a dreamA white rose was floating to greet... the seaMorning light, race me downThe wooden path, can't catch me now... the seaWill you wade with me? You and me, all alone?Wadin' on the seaI grab your...
- This Is My Song
My name is Luck, this is my songI happened by while you were gone, well...I apologize that I could not stayBut I hope good things swing your wayI know they will... here's your horseshoeSo best of luck to youFor the...
- One Prairie Outpost
Not been here since I was a boy The sky unwrapped, the world my toy A movie reel a million miles long On and on...Scene after scene passes by my lifeThe window's a wound. The road is a knifeThe irony, ask me, 'where...
- Clannanhide
There's a place we hide true selves Shine them into golden awe Clandestine, I. Charade, shadow the midnight Hide, muddle the meaning. Hide, muddle the meaning The Plan: Clan and Hide. (show the way...) Motes protect...
- Kinakeet Island
Hang on Parade... Catching up again Where's the feeling we knew then (Whisper, my friend...) So we pick up, with empty cup In dreaming we thrive As we doze alone, and cradle stone Am I alive? ...And all is fine on...
- Nowadays
So steadily go, the rain... So steadily go, the time... So steadily go, the season... So steadily go, long ago... All the little mysteries of a big yard A little bit older, rake the lawn I am a field mouse in a tall...
- To My Soul
Started out the same to Day Dreams afloat the Mothering Sky Peering out, miming hope with my face Float me high, hot air balloon To high, high to touch Hold it in (with old bookends) Well this hunting ground... Well...
- Jan. 9, 63 Degrees
This is an atypical day (it's the State we're in): Billow-beast clouds. Vibrant, bright like Spring. This is a turbulent drive, mixing bowl of good and bad Kooked by caffeine, Sky Wind Machine And the car absorbs it...
- Aurora
Shuffle in the feet, thrive alive Viking Confident, am lucky I Doomsday! A pillage-plunder magna cum laude Solar flare! An eye-spy with a panavision glare Sun's down, Oh no... where's the after-glow! Burn midnight...
- ...For Your Violin
She said, "Catch me if you can. You better plan, Gentlemen." So The Story Goes: Robin Hood stole the magic seeds from a Sherwood Dignitary Set 'em afloat on a Merchant's Boat, set sail for Johnny Appleseed Johnny...
- Ordinary Eyes
Shall we begin? Gather round, gather all: Keep it real, strip it down Rather not wait around With the Hungry Eyes of a snake-oil salesman Wait/Hurry Water to wine Have got the patience... Haven't got the time Saw...
- Traffic
Don't get mad at nothin' (Anything) that passes by Don't yank from the sky You make up too many voices Too many scenario's imaginari-OH! Dreary load Should keep on going...writing...riding Too long for...
- Mary Mac
There's a neat little lass And her name is Mary Mac Make no mistake, She's the girl I'm gonna track Lot of other fellas Want to get up on her back But I'm thinking that they'll Have to get up early Chorus: Mary Mac's...
- Follow The Lady
She's assigned a witch to spell my heart and now I'm drawn to her And my feigning resistance is waning, light as gossamer And I mind... In this dark, flint a spark. Shady lady, it glows out of you Through this complex...
- Wanderin' Around
Put me in new direction. Point me to the edge of the world With a warm heart and cold complexion I'm feeble with a flag unfurled Where to today? Miles away Chorus:And as I sigh the long goodbye, what will be found...
- Desperation Song
Here I'm debating time, I'm waiting Come the wake Free fall the cannonball volcanic shatters on the lake You settle down, Where you runnin to? What else can you prove? How many, many more until you lose? You thought a...
- The Boxer
Couldn't ask for a better day, two by two To the ring to the right point of view Each retreat to the corner that's definied by you To the ring to the right point of... Chorus:Lonely Reign She is the Boxer, she knows...
- So Why
What's the point in reaching you my lonely friend? What's the point in friends if friends can't make amends? I am not impressed not that I claim to know what's best. You're sick of love, you're sick of the day. The...
- Big Strong Man
Intro: Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? Haaaaaaaavvvvveeeeeee Have you heard about the big strong man He lived in a caravan Have you heard about the Jeffrey Johnson fight Oh lord what a...
- Attica's Flower Box Window
(She broached again and again over the careful morning scones that she adored all too quickly as he cranked up his jaw and turned off his ear. And she reminded they were his favorites and...) "Could we please consider...
- Gloryland
If you have friends in Gloryland, Who left because of pain Thank God up there, they'll die no more They'll suffer not again. Then weep not friends, I'm goin' home Up there we'll die no more No coffins will be made up...
- Crazy Train
Crazy, but that's how it goes Millions of people living as fools Maybe it's not too late To learn how to love And forget how to hate Mental wounds not healing Life's a bitter shame I'm going off the rails on a crazy...
- Seven Brides For Seven Sinners
Hold the phone. Where?s the fire? Call the preacher. We must pray. Round up the kids, 'cause this is Not your average wedding day. (What do we have?) Seven brides for seven sinners (What do we need?) Father, Son, and...
- Home
I lit a light on my gloom... And now there's only a half-moon I need to find a way home Back on the moon to be alone And so we make our way Through the sand of a sullen day (Whittle away....Whittle away) Dreaming in...
- Toy Soldiers
Today I strike out on my own The dog is dead. The kids have grown I fell asleep in my writing chair I drempt I'd found my childhood stare To family dinner Christmas night We'd cross the river shipyard lights Before...
- American Tale
Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo Shot, take it in. Shot of Indigo ooh, American Tale What if we march us to the grave? Or we make reason, an act of...
- Shine
Should I shy down. that's boring. snoring I'd like to teach me to sing in perfect harmony And I'd like to change the world. It's easier than changing me And I'd like to find one girl who knows me Strum bang the drum...
- Torn To Tattered
In a classroom somewhere alone Looking at the window scene Tune out the tutor in me Sun is going down through the line of trees I day dream And in my head I walk along All the paths we have been on There is a chance...
- Blue Ridge Laughing
Caught a red moon rise Brought me to our lives We used to drive this Blue Ridge laughing... The red star is Mercury or Venus To tell the truth, I don't really know Space brings back boyish wonder And if we run, we run...
- Maybe Today
It's Sunday noon in my room The wind is really ragin' Inside I'll hide in my tune And think of yesterday playing 'In my room' 'In my room' I feel like a kite high in a tree Is this where I'm suppose to be? I wish I...
- Days Gone By
It's where I am, It's where I go, When I need to be alone Or find someone. I'll sift sand and souls And telephone poles Stretched on this lonely Stretch of road... This beach head road. But the days gone by... For...
- Lonesome Pine
She made her wayShe felt she was to blame And her porcelain dolls She's boxed them all And along the way, she changed her name Lonesome Pine, rain or shine Stands aloneRoots unknown And I'm as brave as you And I'm as...
- Dear
Lie awake and look through the trees My Dear, My Dear... I am waiting, breathe my name My Dear, My Dear... Drift now to sleep, fall with the rain My Dear, My Dear... I'm not awaking, forget my name My Dear, My Dear...
- I Know The Reason
You talk tough to me And it makes me smile By the old church yard Your feelings hide I know the reason And you won't say: "If we grow too close, Will you push away?" I know the reason And I like, that we're the same...
- Untitled
I awaken Look through the the treesMy dear My dearI am waitingRespondingMy dear My dearDrift now to sleepFall with the rainMy dear My dearUpon awakingForget my nameMy dear My dear
- Mellow Tone
You're on my fingers You're on my paper We're close but far Here we are there you are You're on my weak heart My heart is tissue My heart's a scarHere we are there you are You're mellow tone The stepping stone To...
- What About Everything?
Holiday quiet on these streets, except for some stubborn leaves,That didn't fall with the fall, and now they clatter in vainHoliday sky, midnight clear, wind is high, hard to steerOld muffler rumbles like an old...
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