Andrea Gibson - Good Light lyrics

Though I don't remember, I remember my birth
Was my first yes though I was pushed, yes
Though there was screaming, yes
Though the light hurt, yes

I wanted the yes to last forever so
Badly later on I told myself:
We’re built like drums we couldn't make songs
If we had never been hit
It was a desperate theory

When they told me god was always watching
I said, Who wants to worship a diary thief?
I didn't dare say who wants to worship anyone

Who would see everything and just
Sit there doing nothing
While the devil flossed his
Teeth with the bow of my prettiest violin?

Oddly they told me the same thing
About Santa always watching and I didn't mind
Because that fucker was bringing presents

God was only bringing life
Which I was told was a sin to return
Even if it didn’t fit

My yes never fit into the no of this world
I was just a little girl trying to get
Rid of the just and the little
Got rid of the girl instead

Got rid of my yes trying to make a no so big
It could go back in time
Swallow everything that happened
That should not have happened

And that’s how I lived i mean
That’s how I’d been living
Decades of no no no no no no
And that’s okay
An accordion could not make a song

If it never closed but then I met you

And I started feeling myself open
Started feeling my yes coming back
And it was the sweetest thing
I had ever known
The reverse of being haunted
Like taking a deep breath

And pulling the fog off the glass
My love, my yes

Do you know how many times a day
My gratitude frames your autograph?

Come see me in the good light
Come tell me what you tell the truth
Come trouble me come lightning strike
Come read out loud what I can’t
Yet pronounce of my own life
Come wiser than the past
Come make me make you proud
Come hope too much come with all your ghosts
Come clown around when the timing’s bad
Come promise me the world
Come trust me to do my best even when I don’t
Come ask me to give you everything I have
Come knowing I’ll give you my word
That if you fall in the forest
When there’s no one around
I’ll be there before you land

Come be everything you are, my love
Come love this world, come hate it too
Come undone, come falling apart
Come every age you have ever been
Come tantrum in the grocery store
Come screaming for what’s sweet
Come willing to spill
Willing to stain the windows
Of the angry church come nervous brave

Come tender as the trees forgiving the books
For asking to be made

Come with all your beauty
Leaving evidence behind
Your fingerprints all over the thing
That changed my mind

That made me better than I was
Come love, make me better than I was

Come teach me a kinder way
To say my own name

Come knowing I, like everyone have had
My own blood on my hands

Come help me to a gentler truth

Come share my parachute
Come let me share your storm come hush

The weatherman when he calls it bad weather
Come light as a feather on
The bird that stuck around

To see the snow i used to
Drive along the coast of Maine
Searching for the fog come with
Me to where the sea

Lifts up into the sky just to slow us down
Come make it count, our finding each other

Like we’ve found god
Come root for the salt come believing
We can heal it all, even everything
Even everything that has ever been done

I know how much the pain of this world weighs
But, I can still tip the
Scales in light’s direction

Whenever I have your name on my tongue
Whenever you say love is a ladder

To our highest selves, I say, May our falling
Be the most beautiful climb

May the rings of the ladder
Shine on our hands in the good light, and
In the lighting strike
My love come become beside me

’til i find your first silver hair in our tub
’Til i find your last silver hair in our tub
Come love come love
Come love