The Holly & the Ivy - Album Lyrics

1. Love is a Constant Changing

Out on the mesa, in the wheatgrass

Where the blue contrasts with the green

I thought how I wouldn’t go back

I haven’t saved one receipt

Thought of a woman

Who dances with fire in her feet

And how I wish I could keep what I can’t keep

Cause love is a constant changing

Love is a constant changing

Out on the front porch off Sante Fe

You were lulling begging me to stay

Your stone blue eyes 

The same just in a different way

I will live, I will die

Every hello and sweet goodbye

It’s oblivion wearing a pretty dress

Cause love is a constant changing 

Love is a constant changing

Oh, love is a constant change

All the crumbs that fell 

from our children’s lips

The way you tasted when we’d kiss

Our garden-level apartment 

and Arizona skies

When we loved well 

and sometimes not enough

All the pieces are a mess 

but when I add ‘em up

They’re all the things I’m gonna miss most

Cause love is a constant changing 

Love is a constant changing

Oh, Love is a constant change with you

2. Lucky Heartache 

Hmm, hmm, hey, hey

Heavy enough to bend but not break

How much do I give when you take

I’ll try to leave a light on

I’ll try to help you roll your stone

I love you too much to let you go

Our history is the edge of a knife 

Cutting us through

There’s a little truth in every good lie

It’s hard to move on

I think about it all the time

I guess I’m lucky to know heartache

What love knows no heartache?

Hmm, hmm, hey, hey

No need to say it

It’s written in your eyes

We both love a good fight 

We are two sides of the same exact coin

You’re far, you’re close, at the same time

Our history is the edge of a knife 

Cutting us through

There’s a little truth in every good lie

It’s hard to move on

I think about it all the time

I guess I’m lucky to know heartache

Good love knows heartache

If I lose you at least I had something to lose

Good love knows (X3)

If we let go it means we were held on to

Good love know (X3)  

Good love knows heartache (X2)

3. Uncertainty

Ruffled all my feathers, tosses me in the wind

Talking in a palindrome 

With everything uncertain

It’s lusting for the harbor or Sisyphus rolling

We’re stranded in the hour 

With everything uncertain

We don’t have to carry no more

We don’t have to

We don’t have to carry no more

Each path we’re taking I’m on your side

There’s no way of knowing which one is right

But we can dance in the hour

Dance in the unknown

And if heaven gets too heavy, We’ll just let it go

Dressed up like an answer, truths red herring

Outcome puppeteering, when it feels uncertain

We’ll make our bed 

In the same one we’re sleeping

‘Cause nothing is wasted

Though it feels uncertain

We don’t have to carry no more

We don’t have to

We don’t have to carry no more

Each path we’re taking I’m on your side

There’s no way of knowing which one is right

But we can dance in the hour

Dance in the unknown

And if heaven gets too heavy I’d rather let it go

And hold on to you, Hold on to you (X5)

4. Forgone

It’s late March and your Christmas lights 

are still gutter strung

Like a dead star that’s light is still carrying on

You say if you are free 

you shouldn’t have to go and say it

Well from your mouth spills your heart 

a story to discredit

Forgone, Forgone, it’s time I be moving on

Forgone, Forgone, easier said than done

The figures don’t quite add up

The sum don’t balance out

Your heart has found a truth

But your mind keeps finding doubt

But then the sun it cracks 

like a yoke upon the roof

And from the darkness

you can see good medicine’s in you

Forgone, Forgone, it’s time I be moving on

Forgone, Forgone, easier said than done

Reduced it to its edges, suck the marrow dry

The season’s run its course

The road has passed ya by

But you will stand again 

And wear your chin held high

Sing it in refrain, oh the beauty it is to try

Forgone, Forgone, it’s time I be moving on

Forgone, Forgone, easier said than done

Moving on, moving on, moving on, moving on, Easier said than done

5. I Must Believe in the Morning

I must believe in the morning

For dark is the night that I see 

I must believe in the morning

To bring the storm to its knees

Yesterday promised but left without keeping

Took off in a long black hearse

Under the weight I was bending and bowing

Like a meadow pressed by the wind

But I’ve watched it grow from green to yellow 

Then die and burst up again

The wishing can rot, We got what we got

But dawn is as true as the dusk

I must believe in the morning

For dark is the night that I see 

I must believe in the morning

To bring the storm to its knees

Yesterday called but I couldn’t take it

Left a message on my machine

Said she tried to stop running her mind

But the past is always talking

The answers have gone, Reason has too

Like cherry blossoms in the wind

The paths overgrown, Nowhere to go

But hope is a stubborn friend

I must believe in the morning

For dark is the night that I see 

I must believe in the morning

To bring the storm to its knees

Nah nah nah, nah nah nah

Nah nah nah, Bring it to its knees

6. Baker’s Dozen

My mind zigzagging, Like lightning in the sky

My mind treadmill running

To what end will I edify

I wanna listen to your chest beating

We don’t have to talk about anything

We don’t have to talk about anything

All your half-drank cups of tea

Smell of bread and the fruit flies buzzing

Time with you is a baker’s dozen

It’s enough to just hold you

It’s enough to just hold you

My mind stuck in a flurry

Too expensive to sustain

My mind rid of the worry   

Worth is a place that can’t be named

When the wild world keeps on spinning

We don’t have to know all the meaning

We don’t have to know all the meaning

I want to kiss you and dance to Elton

Mountain of laundry and the sound of cooking

Time with you is a baker’s dozen

It’s enough to just hold you

It’s enough to just hold you

Nothing’s wasted, nothing’s lost 

Nothing’s wasted, it’s enough

Nothing’s wasted, nothing’s lost 

Nothing’s wasted

It’s enough to just hold you

It’s enough to just hold you

It’s enough to just hold you

It’s enough to just hold you

7. Orion

Foxes have their holes, Yes and birds their nests

But love is a river, A stream that can’t be damned

It flows and belongs like a memory or a sunset

A symphony playing

A beauty that cannot be kept

I croon for you, yet no words to be found

Way the grass moves in the wind spellbound

Free in your love, Free in your love                 

You surely don’t need me

But you say that you want me

Wolves have their caves

Yes and spiders their webs

But love is a circle, Only held with open hands

I’ll belong to you, Like a bird in the sky

Like Orion draped gently

In the blackness of the night

I croon for you, yet no words to be found

Way the grass moves in the wind spellbound

Free in your love, Free in your love                 

You surely don’t need me

But you say that you want me

Free, Free in your love

Free, Free in your love

Free, Free in your love

In your love, in your love, oww

8. When the Daisies Bloom Again

When the daisies bloom again

All of the pain between bookends

Pressed my mind into diamonds

Healing never feels like it

To see the pedals stand sunlit

Well time is teasing us now

It’s so easy to fall into your arms

And it’s so hard to get out of my own way

When the daisies bloom again

I hope that we’ll be different,

marred better by the weather and by time

Find ourselves a kinder frame

Be the mountain and the stream

Reap from the harvest of a previous hour

It’s so easy to fall into your arms

And it’s so hard to get out of my own way

Give me a light that never grows dim

Give me a hope when nothing’s certain

Give me a light that never grows dim

Give me a hope when nothing’s certain

Will I know better then? Will I know better then?

When the daisies bloom again

It’s so easy, easy, easy to fall into your arms

And it’s so hard to get out of my own way

9. Southern Facing Room

Oh, when I was aching, with the sigh to fill a hundred gray balloons

Lost in the found knowing I had to say goodbye to you

I had to feel it, felt what I need to

Just cause I’m healing, don’t mean I don’t miss you

You always were my southern facing room

All the light in you, Now we’re too far gone to know

But I still take a piece of you with me everywhere I go

I’d seen enough. but it’s hard to let go of something you love

Why I’ll never shake it, but I found joy in the alchemy of making

I’m not forgetting I had to feel it, felt what I need to

Just cause I’m healing, don’t mean I don’t miss you

You always were my southern facing room

All the light in you, Now we’re too far gone to know

But I still take a piece of you with me everywhere I go

It’s good to say goodbye, goodbye

I’ll find another light, another light

10. Clouds

It hits you like a screaming train

Tryin’ to catch your breath between the waves

I don’t know what to say, the words won’t satisfy

So much is said but not explained

Why love is worth its share of pain

I don’t know where it’s all headed, 

but I can stay here tonight

Until the clouds all roll away, roll

Roll away your clouds

I hate to see you circling the drain

A drink to lullaby the pain

I don’t know how it feels, but I’ll wait by your side

Until the clouds all roll away, roll

Roll away your clouds (X2)

Blue skies are comin’, Wait for the light now

we’ll probably be okay

Blue skies are comin’, Wait for the light now, 

roll those clouds away

Blue skies are comin’, Wait for the light now

we’ll probably be okay

We’ll probably be okay, Roll away, 

We’ll probably be okay, Roll

We’ll probably be okay, Roll away your clouds, 

We’ll probably be okay, We’ll probably be okay

So bring your feet back to the ground

Your minds a damn merry go round

I don’t know how this ends

But I’ve got a good feeling