Devendra Banhart - Now That I Know lyrics
[Devendra Banhart - Now That I Know lyrics]
Now that I know the way it goes
You gotta pay back every penny that you owe
Twelve years old in your mama's clothes
Shut the blinds and lock up every door
And if you hear someone's comin near
Just close your eyes and
Make them disappear now years away
Finds me here today
On my own, always on my way now
So I send my friends
Gifts from where I've been
Something for the hand they're
Never there to lend
Better keep those eyes climbing paradise
And don't pretend you won't reach
It in the end now
Dearest dear i know you been here
Why'd you run tell me why'd you disappear now
That you're not here with me
Seems to be the only time that
I can see you clearly
I may not know
How to treat or give you what you need
But, I am a gentleman who
Says what he means now
And now I sing upon my knees
And praise the kindness of a gentle breeze
I see it swell like a story in me to tell
Told years away and past my baby dying
So you raise them up to heaven always hell
They're unaware, share
Give a hand to help son
Oh you give them away
But they'll come back to you someday
Wanna know why nobody was ever
There to help them
And no it ain't fair
And if God forbid you care
It's enough to get you in
A whole lotta trouble
Oh realize it ain't wise to idealize
Or put your life in the hands of any struggle
Never renounce or ever claim to be
And never buy that freedom
Just ain't free now
Ella sang sifting in the sand
Like a hymn within to help us understand
Heaven await's we're making our last stand
Glory bound and sparrow in our hand
You gotta pay back every penny that you owe
Twelve years old in your mama's clothes
Shut the blinds and lock up every door
And if you hear someone's comin near
Just close your eyes and
Make them disappear now years away
Finds me here today
On my own, always on my way now
So I send my friends
Gifts from where I've been
Something for the hand they're
Never there to lend
Better keep those eyes climbing paradise
And don't pretend you won't reach
It in the end now
Dearest dear i know you been here
Why'd you run tell me why'd you disappear now
That you're not here with me
Seems to be the only time that
I can see you clearly
I may not know
How to treat or give you what you need
But, I am a gentleman who
Says what he means now
And now I sing upon my knees
And praise the kindness of a gentle breeze
I see it swell like a story in me to tell
Told years away and past my baby dying
So you raise them up to heaven always hell
They're unaware, share
Give a hand to help son
Oh you give them away
But they'll come back to you someday
Wanna know why nobody was ever
There to help them
And no it ain't fair
And if God forbid you care
It's enough to get you in
A whole lotta trouble
Oh realize it ain't wise to idealize
Or put your life in the hands of any struggle
Never renounce or ever claim to be
And never buy that freedom
Just ain't free now
Ella sang sifting in the sand
Like a hymn within to help us understand
Heaven await's we're making our last stand
Glory bound and sparrow in our hand