The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear (2007)

So if you put this on and kinda tune-in-tune-out, The Dead Will Walk, Dear comes off as a series of sweet, homespun indie folk love songs, with fingerpicked guitars, pedal steel, and lovely vocal harmonies. But lines like "I was eating your body and bones" may start jumping out at you, and you'll realize that it's actually a collection of often quite grisly, occasionally heartbreaking (see "Riverbed") murder ballads, sung and performed with a perverse preciousness and wistfulness.

Track listing:
1. Better for It, Kid
2. Mess Around
3. The Dead Will Walk
4. O, Ohio
5. Riverbed
6. Buried Treasure
7. Midwest Town
8. The Water Is Wide
9. Swimming in the the Swamp
10. Killing Swallows

Let me cover you up
In my buttoned flannel shirt
Your skin's so cold without a skirt on
Let my tongue cut your cheek
And catch the blood before it falls
Cause it'll dirty up your feet

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Mojave 3 -
Ask Me Tomorrow (1995)

The Black Heart Procession -
1 (1998)