Iron & Wine: “Singers and the Endless Song”
Clip: 2/6/2025 | 5m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live.
Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live. The performance collective Manual Cinema brings the song to life visually through shadow puppet animations of a wolf on the hunt and a rabbit on the run.
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Iron & Wine: “Singers and the Endless Song”
Clip: 2/6/2025 | 5m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Iron & Wine plays “Singers and the Endless Song,” which the artist rarely performs live. The performance collective Manual Cinema brings the song to life visually through shadow puppet animations of a wolf on the hunt and a rabbit on the run.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ We all ran back into the briars ♪ ♪ Told our children about a foreign shore ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Threw our boots into the fire ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Told them all about the tug of war ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ 'Bout a seed and a shovel ♪ ♪ A prison and a promised land ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ A dream of a devil ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Hurting and a healing hand ♪ [mellow music] ♪ Ah ♪ [mellow music continues] ♪ We held our words up in a mirror ♪ ♪ Told our children how to hold their tongues ♪ ♪ And our heads beneath the river ♪ ♪ Told them all about an iron lung ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ 'Bout the sins of a father ♪ ♪ A junkie and a jubilee ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ The roots in the water ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ The killing in the quiet line of trees ♪ ♪ Trees, the trees ♪ [mellow music] ♪ All our morning kisses in the covers ♪ ♪ And told our children what worthy means ♪ ♪ And you wrapped your arms around another ♪ ♪ Told them what was worth a pile of beans ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Tell them 'bout the call of the ocean ♪ ♪ The singers and the endless song ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ The body and the motion ♪ ♪ How the music never lasts too long, too long ♪ ♪ Too long ♪ ♪ Way too long ♪ ♪ Long ♪ ♪ Long, long, long ♪ ♪ 'Cause the music never lasts too long ♪ ♪ 'Cause the music never lasts too long ♪ ♪ For the singers and the endless song ♪ ♪ Low lit alley and the wedding bed ♪ ♪ Firstborn sucker and the spider's web ♪ ♪ 'Cause the music never lasts ♪ ♪ Mind and the muscle and the weary mile ♪ ♪ Heart and the hustle and the empty sky ♪ ♪ Just an endless sky ♪ ♪ Tell 'em 'bout it, girls ♪ ♪ Tangled up truth in the perfect teeth ♪ ♪ Pilgrim and the picking through the chaff and wheat ♪ ♪ For the singers, for the singers ♪ ♪ Breeze in the summer and the nose will know ♪ ♪ Sleep through the winter when the cold wind blows ♪ ♪ On the singers, blows on the singers ♪ ♪ Lame duck lion and the thorny crown ♪ ♪ Proud punk mule and the heavy plow ♪ ♪ Tell 'em 'bout the plow, girls ♪ ♪ Butterfly kiss and the call for blood ♪ ♪ Pig and the preacher and the holy mud ♪ ♪ For the singers, it never lasts ♪ ♪ Sunburned belly and the mother's moon ♪ ♪ End of the music coming way too soon ♪ ♪ Coming way too soon ♪ ♪ For the singers, the singers ♪ ♪ Low lit alley and the wedding bed ♪ ♪ Firstborn sucker and the spider's web ♪ ♪ For the singers, for the singers ♪ ♪ Mind and the muscle and the weary mile ♪ ♪ Heart and the hustle and the empty sky ♪ ♪ The music never lasts, it never ♪ ♪ Tangled up truth in the perfect teeth ♪ ♪ Pilgrim and the picking through the chaff and wheat ♪ ♪ Through the chaff and wheat ♪ ♪ Tell 'em 'bout it, girls ♪ ♪ Breeze in the summer and the nose will know ♪ ♪ Sleep through the winter when the cold wind blows ♪ ♪ And it blows and it blows, it blows, it blows ♪ ♪ Lame duck lion and the thorny crown ♪ ♪ Proud punk mule and the heavy plow ♪ ♪ For the singers, the singers, the singers ♪ ♪ Butterfly kiss and the call for blood ♪ ♪ Pig and the preacher and the holy mud ♪ ♪ From the mud, the blood, the singers, the singers ♪ ♪ Sunburned belly and the mother's moon ♪ ♪ End of the music coming way too soon ♪ ♪ It's the end of the music coming way too soon ♪ ♪ End of the music coming way too soon ♪ ♪ End of the music coming way too soon ♪ ♪ End of the music coming way too soon ♪ ♪ End of the music coming way too soon ♪ ♪ End of the music coming way too soon ♪
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Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.