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Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

Calexico And Iron & Wine

Tiny Desk Concerts - Audio

NPR

Music

4.6 β€’ 1.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The two bands just released Years to Burn, their first album together since 2005. Now, they've performed three songs β€” two new, one old β€” for Calexico's Tiny Desk debut.

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0:00.0

I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert.

0:05.2

To see the video, subscribe to the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk Concerts.

0:10.2

Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. While my father built a man on the mountain,

0:28.0

I was chasing my Teresa around a tree,

0:31.0

we were kicking precious stones, sinking ships and swimming home.

0:40.0

Only crazy for the comfort of our clothes.

0:46.0

While my father built a mansion on the mountain

0:52.0

by Theresa Drag a drag a rag across my brow

0:57.0

She said the weather's only fair the wing can only blow your hair and I believed her well enough or didn't

1:08.3

care.

1:11.3

Everyone knows and they don't know

1:18.4

Candelier Light a love

1:27.0

it just It just watches the time go. Across the marble floor, out the ornamental door

1:36.0

even rain can hear it running off the road Oh. My father built a mansion on the mountain.

1:57.0

My Teresa drew me kisses through the cold.

2:07.0

We read the writing on the wall,

2:10.0

braced each other for the fall.

2:12.8

There's only one way of a mountain after all.

2:18.8

While my father built a mansion on the mountain.

2:25.0

It was me and my Teresa against the world.

2:30.0

We took all the river had to give we broke a bed

2:35.6

We bought a crib left the mountain mansion nothing to forget Nothing to forgive.

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