Album: The Weather Station (2017)
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  • You were a friend to me
    You told me all that was on your mind
    And it meant so much to me
    From the beginning
    How it was so kindred-spirited to mine
    I would think of you sometimes
    In the early morning
    As I dressed to meet a plane
    Before the cab came
    How I let you down when I had the most to give
    How I let you down but you were quick to forgive
    You wanted to help me
    You wanted to sit and talk for hours
    But I wanted power

    I tried words
    I tried feelings
    I tried close-my-eyes believing
    I tried getting you on my side
    I tried being on top of it
    I tried responsibility
    I express myself properly
    I got blindly angry, with my whole heart in it
    But there was no conduit
    There was no sure way to it
    I thought that I had blown it
    The further I got in it
    The stranger it was to win it
    I could not have it
    But still I searched from sheer force of habit
    I felt like I was descending
    Some strange inverted tower
    Looking for my power

    I wanted permission
    I wanted expedition
    I wanted to have weight to throw around
    For you to look up
    When I found something so beautiful
    And I could tell you somehow
    I'd never have to shout
    You would listen to my know-how
    All the love our love allows
    I felt so clumsy and plain
    I was filled with so much shame
    Just trying to say, to say, to say
    To call out anything by name
    Every line felt lifted
    Every smooth stone was pitted
    By the wind and rain that hit it
    And I never could forget it, as you forgot it
    I wanted to set it all down
    So it would open to you like a flower
    Yes, I wanted power

    I fell asleep on the plane
    And I woke up strange
    Twisted in the pale blue seat
    An hour gone by
    The sun was rising again, keeping distant
    Over the blackened blue rim of the sky
    I spent my whole life thinking
    That I was some kind of coward Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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