I want to go outside and read "The Song of Hiawatha."
lyrics
of all the choices that didn't get made
of all the things i thought and did not say
of all the things that i kept shyly hidden to myself
this proud untested love was not one of them
the usual miracle, this common transformation
how shall we consecrate the smallness of this morning
i want another spoonful of your bitter cappucino
to taste this proud, untested and overwhelming love
i want to watch your sock, fallen down around your ankle
i want to drink the afternoon and taste it all behind my teeth
i want the sadness, desperation, gentleness and longing
of overwhelming, wayward, unfamiliar love
i want to complicate our secret childhood handshake
i want to go outside and read the song of hiawatha
want to watch the fading light fall across your face
fall across this darkness, madness, this overwhelming love
and i go to the point of communication that i have with my heart
at the end of the scar i received from reaching for
the too-perfect apple and i ask it again what promises you've made
my heart is a shy one and not good at keeping secrets
and it told me you said, 'keep yourself beating . . .
and i will make you beat faster
credits
from Travelogue,
track released June 10, 2003
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