Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car

Song Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car
Artist Iron & Wine
Album The Shepherd's Dog

Lyrics

[00:27.76] Love was a promise made of smoke
[00:31.44] In a frozen copse of trees
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[00:40.13] A bone cold and older than our bodies
[00:43.70] Slowly floating in the sea
[00:45.63]
[00:52.39] Every morning there were planes
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[00:54.95] The shiny blades of pagan angels in our father's skies
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[01:05.38] Every evening I would watch her hold the pillow
[01:09.32] Tight against her hollows, her unholy child
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[01:17.51] I was still a beggar shaking out my stolen coat
[01:21.20]
[01:22.07] Among the angry cemetery leaves
[01:24.07]
[01:30.32] When they caught the king beneath the borrowed car
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[01:34.01] Righteous, drunk, and fumbling for the royal keys
[01:37.39]
[02:41.30] Love was a father's flag and sung like a shank
[02:46.68] In a cake on our leather boots
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[02:53.86] A beautiful feather floating down
[02:56.99] To where the birds had shit on empty chapel pews
[03:00.24]
[03:06.11] Every morning we found one more machine
[03:09.30] To mock our ever waning patience at the well
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[03:18.80] Every evening she'd descend the mountain stealing socks
[03:22.80] And singing something good where all the horses fell
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[03:31.18] Like a snake within the wilted garden wall
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[03:34.62] I'd hint to her every possibility
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[03:43.87] While with his gun the pagan angel rose to say
[03:47.55] My love is one made to break every bended knee
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