TRACK TWELVE

“Salt Then Sour Then Sweet" (feat. Brandi Carlile)

FROM THE NEW ALBUM ‘GOOD GRIEF’, OUT AUGUST 28

PRE-ORDER GOOD GRIEF

Give me the light years
But I want the dark ones too
Grief is the singer in my band
She’s a passenger van
And a short cut straight to the truth

Learn from the night shades
They grow in the darkest places
Had we not been stung so many times
Would we ever have arrived at this heaven on earth
That I don’t want to waste

Pick a lucky penny up
And I’ll marry you for your money love

So keep the novocaine out of my wisdom teeth
Wanna feel it all
Salt then sour then sweet
Wanna kiss you and write love’s name on my crumbling walls
Lay them at your feet
With the rest of me
Salt then Sour then Sweet

Come to the porch love
Look up at the perfect sky
Holding the sun and the moon and the thunder in June
While she teaches the birds and the rain how to fly

I don’t need perfect
I just want to touch what’s true
I want to cherish the trying and the living and dying
And make big mistakes
The way kind people do

Pick a lucky penny up
And I’ll marry you for your money love

So keep the novocaine
out of my wisdom teeth
Wanna feel it all
Salt then sour then sweet
Wanna kiss you and write love’s name on my crumbling walls
Lay them at your feet
With the rest of me
Nothing more I need
Life is love I bleed
Salt then Sour then sweet

So sweet
So sweet
So sweet