
Iron & Wine: "Call It Dreaming"
Clip: 2/6/2025 | 3m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Iron & Wine plays “Call It Dreaming” with a band and the shadow puppet collective Manuel Cinema.
Iron & Wine plays his song “Call It Dreaming,” which imagines two people on a dreamy adventure together. Performed with a full band and the shadow puppetry collective Manual Cinema, the song comes to life by combining complex visuals and performance art.
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Iron & Wine: "Call It Dreaming"
Clip: 2/6/2025 | 3m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Iron & Wine plays his song “Call It Dreaming,” which imagines two people on a dreamy adventure together. Performed with a full band and the shadow puppetry collective Manual Cinema, the song comes to life by combining complex visuals and performance art.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[gentle music] [gentle music continues] ♪ Say it's here where our pieces fall in place ♪ ♪ Any rain softly kisses us on the face ♪ ♪ Any wind means we're running ♪ ♪ We can sleep and see 'em coming ♪ ♪ Where we drift and call it dreaming ♪ ♪ We can weep and call it singing ♪ [gentle music] [gentle music continues] ♪ Where we break 'cause our hearts are strong enough ♪ ♪ We can bow 'cause our music's warmer than blood ♪ ♪ Where we see enough to follow ♪ ♪ We can hear when we are hollow ♪ ♪ Where we keep the light we're given ♪ ♪ We can lose and call it living ♪ ♪ Where the sun isn't only sinking fast ♪ ♪ Every night knows how long it's supposed to last ♪ ♪ Where the time of our lives is all we have ♪ ♪ And we get a chance to say ♪ ♪ Before we ease away ♪ ♪ For all the love you've left behind ♪ ♪ You can have mine ♪ [gentle music] ♪ Say it's here where our pieces fall in place ♪ ♪ We can fear 'cause a feeling's fine to betray ♪ ♪ Where our water isn't hidden ♪ ♪ We can burn and be forgiven ♪ ♪ Oh, where our hands hurt from healing ♪ ♪ We can laugh without a reason ♪ ♪ 'Cause the sun isn't only sinking fast ♪ ♪ Every moon and our bodies make shining glass ♪ ♪ 'Cause the time of our lives is all we have ♪ ♪ And we get a chance to say ♪ ♪ Before we ease away ♪ ♪ For all the love you've left behind ♪ ♪ You can have mine ♪ [gentle music] ♪ Mine ♪ [gentle music]
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Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live. (5m 13s)
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Iron & Wine performs with a full band and shadow puppeteers from the collective Manual Cinema. (30s)
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Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
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