The Old Ceremony - Day That I Was Born lyrics

I could let go of the wheel tonight And surrender to the gears and the motors I Have set all in motion until they find A splintery bed on which to lie I could almost smell your hair tonight And the hypnotic poisonous dandelion I watered and set you out in the sun But you closed your petals to everyone We built a rickety bridge of sighs And we nestled and watched as the rivers rise For every new creature and old one dies And washes out into the foamy skies You knew the poetry I just knew the poem You woke up next to me The day that I was born I held a robin up to my chest But its heart beat so loud out of fear I guess So I let it go, a lesson learned Now I haunt my window for its return We treaded water in greens and blues And you clung to my neck As if you knew That we'd watch this scene from a basement wall As our faces would stutter and rise and fall You knew the poetry I just knew the poem You woke up next to me The day that I was born There's only so much that I can say Without stealing the words from your dog-eared pages For i've only started to bend my spines The ghosts of your fingertips haunt my lines