Ray Lamontagne

Ray Lamontagne is one of my favorite musicians. If you haven't heard his stuff, you should really check it out. Here is a video:

Here are the lyrics to that song [Hold You In My Arms]:

When you came to me with your bad dreams and your fears
It was easy to see that you'd been crying
Seems like everywhere you turn catastrophe it reigns
But who really profits from the dying
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you in my arms forever

When you kissed my lips with my mouth so full of questions
It's my worried mind that you quiet
Place your hands on my face
Close my eyes and say
Love is a poor man's food
Don't prophesize
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
And I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever

So now we see how it is
This fist begets the spear
Weapons of war
Symptoms of madness
Don't let your eyes refuse to see
Don't let your ears refuse to hear
Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold on forever
And I could hold you in my arms
I could hold forever

And these are the lyrics to another of my favorite songs by him[Empty]:

she lifts her skirt up to her knees
walks through the garden rows with her bare feet laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters
I walk on down the hill through grass grown tall and brown
and still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain
on past the busted back of that old and rusted cadillac
that sinks into this field collecting rain
will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

of these cutthroat busted sunsets, these cold and
damp white mornings I have grown weary
if through my cracked and dusty dime-store lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?
lay your blouse across the chair, let fall the flowers from your hair
and kiss me with that country mouth so plain
outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
to me it sounds like they're applauding us the quiet love we make
will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

well I looked my demons in the eyes, laid bare my chest, said do your best to destroy me
you see, I been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kind of bore me
there's a lot of things that can kill a man
there's a lot ways to die, yes and some already dead that walk beside me
there's a lot of things I don't understand, why so many people lie,
it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me

will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

it's the hurt i hide that fuels the fire inside me.

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i like that.