Laura Stevenson - Gathering and Leaping lyrics
[Laura Stevenson - Gathering and Leaping lyrics]
A minor setback, they told you "get back!"
Our whole town is quiet, just
For now, at night, they are quiet
Don't close your windows if you want
It to carry you away
Don't close your windows if you
Want to blow away
We know the wind is heavy alone
It can't bear the onus of our arms
It can barely hold it's own
Oh it can barely hold it's own
Knowing this we persist making
Our taking-off attempts
And our arms furious insist that physics
Rearrange it's face in our favor
So that as we grow older
It shrugs it's shoulders
Nudging our roofs and exposing our rooms
And roots us into it'self
Oh it roots us into it'self
Our whole town is quiet, just
For now, at night, they are quiet
Don't close your windows if you want
It to carry you away
Don't close your windows if you
Want to blow away
We know the wind is heavy alone
It can't bear the onus of our arms
It can barely hold it's own
Oh it can barely hold it's own
Knowing this we persist making
Our taking-off attempts
And our arms furious insist that physics
Rearrange it's face in our favor
So that as we grow older
It shrugs it's shoulders
Nudging our roofs and exposing our rooms
And roots us into it'self
Oh it roots us into it'self