The Oh Hellos - Theseus lyrics
[The Oh Hellos - Theseus lyrics]
At the edges of my fingers
Never quite closing ‘round it
Oh, that peace like a river
Always going, but never getting
Seems like maybe it’s not all
That much a place as it is a way
And ways don’t ever seem to want to
Stay too still for too long
Isn’t that what it’s all about?
The slow trickling thaw that sets
The banks in half the sweet melody it makes
When the canyons crack
I wanna give it all I’ve got
And I want nothing i want nothing back
Whatever kingdom come
It probably won’t come quick
No mighty clarion to announce it
No single use ark to discard in an instant
Like Theseus’s ship
We’ll fix the busted bit's
'Til it’s both nothing like and everything
It’s always been
It’s a wonder we expect a thing to
Stay the same at all
Maybe that’s what it’s all about
We keep fixing what we know
Is only bound to break
What’s worth saving is never worth
Letting go to waste
I want to mend what I’ve got
Instead of throwing away
Ain’t nothing come easy
No, nothing comes quick
It’s gonna hurt like hell to become well
But if we set the bone straight it’ll mend
It’ll fix and we’ll be well
Ain’t nothing comes easy
No, nothing comes quick
But I want for you this: that you are well
I want for us this, oh: That we are well
That we are well that we are well
That we are well that we are well
Never quite closing ‘round it
Oh, that peace like a river
Always going, but never getting
Seems like maybe it’s not all
That much a place as it is a way
And ways don’t ever seem to want to
Stay too still for too long
Isn’t that what it’s all about?
The slow trickling thaw that sets
The banks in half the sweet melody it makes
When the canyons crack
I wanna give it all I’ve got
And I want nothing i want nothing back
Whatever kingdom come
It probably won’t come quick
No mighty clarion to announce it
No single use ark to discard in an instant
Like Theseus’s ship
We’ll fix the busted bit's
'Til it’s both nothing like and everything
It’s always been
It’s a wonder we expect a thing to
Stay the same at all
Maybe that’s what it’s all about
We keep fixing what we know
Is only bound to break
What’s worth saving is never worth
Letting go to waste
I want to mend what I’ve got
Instead of throwing away
Ain’t nothing come easy
No, nothing comes quick
It’s gonna hurt like hell to become well
But if we set the bone straight it’ll mend
It’ll fix and we’ll be well
Ain’t nothing comes easy
No, nothing comes quick
But I want for you this: that you are well
I want for us this, oh: That we are well
That we are well that we are well
That we are well that we are well