As good as I could possibly imagine my life getting, it did
After I met you
The way you reached inside my chest and pulled out things and sent them off in breaths blew
And as good as it got with all the layers peeling off, and though I writhed
I could not upset you
With your hand down my throat you held on to my heart and pumped blood through

And then “it’s time to go” you said, “it’s time to go out
You little gray goose
Get out from under my wing” you said “you swan go on go out you’re turned loose”

Oh! so it’s over
Oh! so we died
Oh! so your hand on my heart pumping blood went limp”and oh! I flied!
Oh swan inside.

clever knot
you’ve tied a very clever knot
knew it once but since it’s long forgotten
cord is rotten
come untied

strike the lord
his labor tactics are a bore
by any self respecting man will last
what comes to pass
his will be done

leap of faith
on cold doubting tones we can brace
dawn and dusk whenever life’s too dim
life’s too grim
feel your way

clever child
another category to be filed in
and defiled by
watcher’s need

leisure time
you’ve exhaled a breath that was your prime
gasp now for the reasons you’ve behaved
soul enslaved
to no one

clever knot
i’ve tied a very clever knot
knew it once but since it’s long forgotten
cord is rotten
come untied

It comes up from the ground just to haunt you
It creeps up and no one else can see
And the harder you try just to look the other way
Well the harder it bites at your sanity

All the anger you felt surging through you
All the pain that you thought was behind you
All the love you once felt, all the love that was gone
It comes up from the ground just to haunt you

There’s a forcefield round my neck
Stand outside with a suitcase
And it stands just where I sat
Walk around all the while
And the stance I took on that
Look at the people driving backwards
Leaves that forcefield round my back
No particular style

Don’t let it get near you
Don’t let it get too close
And the stance I took on that
Don’t let it turn you into
Leaves a forcefield round my neck
The things you hate the most

Roll out your silver-dollar coffins
Pull out your buckskin gloves
Tell them anything you want to
The sound comes from above

Don’t let it get near you
Don’t let it get too close
And the stance I took on that
Don’t let it turn you into
Leaves a forcefield round my neck
The things you hate the most

Don’t let it get near you
Don’t let it get too close
Don’t let it turn you into
The things you hate the most

There’s a forcefield round my neck
And it stands just where I sat
And the stance I took on that
Leaves a forcefield round my neck
There’s a forcefield round my neck
And it stands just where I’ve set
And the stance I took on that
Leaves a forcefield round my neck

Oh, person, person

We’re really missin’ you
It breaks all of our hearts to know
That you just want to come on home
So come on home

The telephone
It just doesn’t seem to do
To let you know
How much it’s true
That we love you
Yeah, we love you

Oh, person, person, person
Oh, person, person, person

How’s that wide river?
Are the mountains doing fine?
Can you smell the cottonwoods?
Is it huckleberry time?
Is it huckleberry time?

You tell fast Eddy I say “how d’you do?
“
Take a nap on a sandbar
And know we’re dreaming of you too
Yeah, we’re dreaming of you too

Oh, person, person, person
Oh, person, person, person

You give those glacier boats
Some muscle driven hell
And make sure the captain stands up straight
When the river starts to swell
When the river starts to swell

Oh, person, person
We’re really missin’ yo
u
t breaks all of our hearts
 to know
That you just want to come on home
So come on home

Oh, person person person
Oh, person, person, person

When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side

Of the road, turn out the lights, get out and look up at the sky

And I do this to remind me that I’m really, really tiny

In the grand scheme of things and sometimes this terrifies me

But it’s only really scary cause it makes me feel serene

In a way I never thought I’d be because I’ve never been

So grounded, and so humbled, and so one with everything

I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

Rock and roll is fun but if you ever hear someone

Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun

Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky

Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye

I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye

When I saw Geneviève I really liked it when she said

What she said about the giant and the lemmings on the cliff

She said ‘I like giants

Especially girl giants

Cause all girls feel too big sometimes

Regardless of their size’

When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side

Of the road and run and jump into the ocean in my clothes

*I’m smaller than a poppyseed inside a great big bowl

And the ocean is a giant that can swallow me whole

So I swim for all salvation and I swim to save my soul

But my soul is just a whisper trapped inside a tornado

So I flip to my back and I float and I sing

I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

So I talked to Geneviève and almost cried when she said

That the giant on the cliff wished that she was dead

And the lemmings on the cliff wished that they were dead

So the giant told the lemmings why they ought to live instead

When she thought up all those reasons that they ought to live instead

It made her reconsider all the sad thoughts in her head

So thank you Geneviève, cause you take what is in your head

you make things that are so beautiful and share them with your friends

We all become important when we realize our goal

Should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole

And yeah, rock and roll is fun, but if you ever hear someone

Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun

Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky

Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye

I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye

I am just a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye

And I don’t wanna make her cry

Cause I like giants

And a one
And a two
And a three and I’m dancing with you

And a one
And a two
And a three and you’re dancing with me
And you step on my feet but I don’t
Mind
Not now

And a one
(Take it easy)
And a two
(You can always try)
And a three and I’m dancing with you
(Once in your life you can have it right now)

I guess that I’ll try