Now Listening: Lisa Hannigan

So I was driving home from Columbia, MO the other day, and had a fantastic mix CD featuring such artists as (above) Lisa Hannigan,  Iron and Wine, Andrew Bird, (and his "Bowl Of Fire"), Coldplay, Greg Laswell, Wilco, and my dear sweet Ray LaMontagne. It was such a stunning compilation of artists. I think I could sell it to Starbucks as one of their tacky seasonal promo CDs. The song that stuck out most of all, was Lisa's. Her lyrics were just amazing. I had never heard her before I had complied these songs onto the CD. So I figured I'd let you read, and appreciate. 

I don't know what you smoke or what countries you've been to if you speak any other languages other than your own but I'd like to meet you I don't know if you drive if you love the ground beneath you I don't know if you write letters or panic on the phone still I'd like to call you all the same, if you want to, I am game.

I don't know if you can swim or if the sea has any draw for you if you're better in the morning or when the sun goes down I'd like to talk to you I don't know if you can dance if the thought ever occurred to you if you eat what you've been given or push it round your plate still I'd like to cook for you all the same, I would want to, I am game,

If you walk my way and I could keep my head we could creep away in the dark or maybe not, we could shoot it down anyway.

I don't know if you read novels or the magazines if you love the hand that feeds you I assume that your heart's been bruised I know I'd like to know you you don't know if I can draw at all or what records I am into if I sleep like a spoon or rarely at all or maybe you would do? maybe you would do

if I walk your way I will keep my head we will feel our way through the dark though I don't know you I think that I would do I don't fall easy at all