Sailor Song
from Sense of Distance (EP) by Robert Leslie
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lyrics
Curtains in the morning
Curtains in the breeze
Hours I've been watching them
So silent, such a tease
Shadows in the garden
Sparrows on the line
Forehead to the windowpane
You held me from behind
Then tearing out the pages
Hitching back out east
Raining on the concrete station
Singing in the grease
Holding all the answers
Holding all the time
I felt so certain of myself
The day we said goodbye
Shadows on the cornfields
Flickers in the shacks
I listen to the whale song blowing
From the railroad tracks
A snow globe in an earthquake
A ruin in the air
I can't forget a single thing
Each little thing is there
I think about the windowpane
I think about the breeze
I'm writing letters to myself
And sleeping 'neath the trees
No reason to be somewhere else
No reason to be here
No reason much for reasons
But then that was always clear
But I won't say the bigger words
For you I'll leave them out
'Cause I know you've got your matchstick bridge
To take into account
Not so hard to keep from speaking
When there's never time to breathe
When we live above the deep and love
Like sailors out on shore leave
I've gone back to the city
I'm counting down the days
Sometimes I wake up and think
The feeling's gone away
I've rented an apartment
I've built myself a fort
I thought I'd find another way
It's harder than I thought
If I could make you disappear
I'm not sure if I'd try
If this is how we're gonna live
I want to feel alive
So I'll keep on writing little notes
And I'll drop them in the sea
And if you won't let me in with you
I'll take you out with me
And you won't hear the bigger words
For you I'll leave them out
'Cause I know you've got your matchstick bridge
To take into account
Not so hard to keep from speaking
When there's never time to breathe
When we live above the deep and love
Like sailors out on shore leave
Curtains in the breeze
Hours I've been watching them
So silent, such a tease
Shadows in the garden
Sparrows on the line
Forehead to the windowpane
You held me from behind
Then tearing out the pages
Hitching back out east
Raining on the concrete station
Singing in the grease
Holding all the answers
Holding all the time
I felt so certain of myself
The day we said goodbye
Shadows on the cornfields
Flickers in the shacks
I listen to the whale song blowing
From the railroad tracks
A snow globe in an earthquake
A ruin in the air
I can't forget a single thing
Each little thing is there
I think about the windowpane
I think about the breeze
I'm writing letters to myself
And sleeping 'neath the trees
No reason to be somewhere else
No reason to be here
No reason much for reasons
But then that was always clear
But I won't say the bigger words
For you I'll leave them out
'Cause I know you've got your matchstick bridge
To take into account
Not so hard to keep from speaking
When there's never time to breathe
When we live above the deep and love
Like sailors out on shore leave
I've gone back to the city
I'm counting down the days
Sometimes I wake up and think
The feeling's gone away
I've rented an apartment
I've built myself a fort
I thought I'd find another way
It's harder than I thought
If I could make you disappear
I'm not sure if I'd try
If this is how we're gonna live
I want to feel alive
So I'll keep on writing little notes
And I'll drop them in the sea
And if you won't let me in with you
I'll take you out with me
And you won't hear the bigger words
For you I'll leave them out
'Cause I know you've got your matchstick bridge
To take into account
Not so hard to keep from speaking
When there's never time to breathe
When we live above the deep and love
Like sailors out on shore leave
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from Sense of Distance (EP),
released November 20, 2012
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