Iron and Wine - Gray Stables

[gray_ghost]

Everytime this song comes on WSUs campus radio I crank it up.  Googled the lyrics tonight because it was driving me crazy not knowing who was singing it or where they were coming from or what the fucking lyrics to this song mean.  The sound/lyrics are very similar to The Kinks - "Living on a Thin Line" (vaguely blue grass but ghostly/ethereal).  It's not music you can easily categorize.  "Southern Hippy Goth?"  I mean there is banjo/harmonica action going on but the lyrics are kind of like something William Blake would write if he were alive now.

Anyway....I fucking love this song:

Gray Stables - by Iron and Wine

brave lady, I could see you through
the mosses
laid, shameless in the sin
my lady with her porcelain and her
weightless
face, pleasing everyone

gray stables, and the horses of the
righteous
pray daily for the brave

lady, you were gorgeous in your
weakness
wet flowers on the ground
my lady never told of her sadness
bones floating in the sound

brave lady, could see me in the
darkness
wait, nameless like a stone
my lady with her watches by the
mattress
bathes lately all alone

gray stables and the horses of the
righteous
pray daily for the brave

lady, would you love me if I left her
laid breathless in the sun
my lady, like a teacup on the counter
frail, pleasing everyone

Oh - and they have kind of a dorky website:Iron and Wine