St. Vincent
St. Vincent
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 September 1982
CountryUnited States of America
young fingers born
The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
down-and infinity
I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
education growing-up children
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
sleep cutting years
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!
beauty beautiful names
Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
i-miss-you missing-you broken-heart
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
god sky two
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
nature flower blooming
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
love night light
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
grief goes-on forget
Life must go on; I forget just why.
shelter
There is no shelter in you anywhere.
love rain men
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.
song reading eye
Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
giving-up men land
Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.