Soft As the Mouths

Something you’d known how to do
Giving it up for the thin man
Who walked on the water
Daughter of the rainmaker, son of the sky
Love, it’s all coming back to you
By and by

By and by x4

Something misplaced in the move
Well, it’s not a race,
We’re all doing our own kind of winning
But darling, I saw you tonight for the first time in 15 years
Giving it up for the ghost,
Lover, you’ve walked on the water more than most.

More than most x4

Oh, being born put you in harms way
Oh, rolling your rock until daybreak
Oh, sweetheart the sorrow your heart makes
When it’s full

Oh, I love how you love in the fire
Oh, invisible wings on the wire
Oh, your spire inviting the lightnings
Grief coming striking

Oh, small one the weight you’ve been carrying,
Oh, give me your load, i will marry it
Oh, the lives and the deaths that have given us
breath and body

You and I talking the shape of our loving
Like the hot loaf of bread in the oven,
Or like how the number of skies in our starway
Is less than the number of cells in our bodies,

It’s as wild as the language that courts us and carries us
Soft as the mouths that will eat us and bury us and
Strong as the sleep holding up her bright mirror
And hot as her anger when we cannot hear her

And dusk is the time when i see you most clearly,
Oh god, are you gentle, and god are you dear to me
You are your engine, your bird and your plane
You’re the wind through his tunnel, the sound of our old names
And coming together means coming apart
Unearthing the old tracks from beneath the stops and starts
The stillness inside of these seconds is everything, love
I would spend them all listening to you sing.

©2020 Laitman/Nayak (Pine Pitch Music BMI / Dizzydog Music ASCAP)