Iron & Wine - History Of Lovers Lyrics

Simply wonderful.

this song SUCKS i will kill any last human being that darres to tell me this is art. fucking shill HILFartTLY BRINGS MIGRANT WORK ERS!!!!!!!!@! college snowflake liberals need to stop showing me this trash music.

kony 2012

greats iron and calexico, i love it

they are back on a European tour together this summer ( 6 dates so far )

NICE!!!

I've never gotten into Iron & Wine or Calexico but I love this song.

Louise only got from me innocent poetry
Although she played to not listen
But still I can hear myself speak as if no one else
Ever could offer the same

Some say she knowingly tasts like a recipe
Although so foolish and willing
I said Babe I can picture you bend as if wanting to
Bow as the curtain goes down

Coddle some men, they'll remember you bitterly
Fuck 'em, they'll come back for more
I asked my Louise would she leave and so cripple me
Then came a knock at the door

"I came for my woman", he came with a razor blade
Bound like us all for the ocean
I hope that she's happy I'm blamed for the death of
A man who would take her from me

Some they saw in me innocent poetry
Some, some say they'll never be certain
But still it's been written, a history of lovers
Given and taken in ink

Coddle some men, they'll remember you fittingly
Cut 'em, they'll come back for more
I asked my Louise would she leave and so cripple me
Then came the knock at the door

Louise came to rescue me, missing the irony
Blood made her heart change its beating
I hope that she's happy I'm blamed for the death of
The man she found better than me

Some say she knowingly tastes like a recipe...

ｇｏｏｄ

All the comments from a year ago talking about 7k hits...sitting here looking at almost 74k now :P

Probably my favorite use of a lap steel.

sounds a bit like heros by bowie

I just thought that recently

this has got a touch of talking heads about it and i love it

Does any body hear Dan Fogelberg in this?

Yes, thought it might have been a tune that I never heard from him.

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Listening to this again, it is not so much the Tom Petty groove as it mirrors the production on that track done by ELO's Jeff Lynne. His work with George Harrison around the same time had a similar quality. Still loving this song, though.

I saw something on DA where someone paired a kataaang picture with the lyrics to the beginning of this song, and it was like the best thing ever.
Iron and wine did half of the work, though XD

The melody is a fairly straight lift from "Where Were You When I Needed You" by The Grass Roots (with a quick phrase from "Obla-Di Obla-Da"), grafted onto the rhythm track of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down."

Which is a pleasant combo, all in all, and I will now proceed to duly purchase the track.

I will have a Samuel Beam beard if its the last thing I do

This song makes me dance :)

@CollarboneOfAHare

*you're

Grrrr...

@JDrevolver66

I've just noticed this today! Well observed. The other song your referring to is Charlene Duncan's 'I've Never Been To Me'

Clearly the fullest and most sophisticated thing calexico has ever done. And yet! only 7K hits. What a sadness.

Cool (and fractured) song. tho the melody is verrrry similar to Belle & Sebastian's "Take your carriage clock and shove it", which is itself nicked from some MOR song from the 80s.

This is such a great song it doesnt need a video clip

@anitaevans

There was a video of them playing this together on The Late Show at one point, as I remember. Seems to have vanished since though which is a shame.

This is such a beautiful song, too bad there isn't a videoclip for it. <3