Steamboat

by Adrianne Lenker

From the album: Hours Were the Birds

Track 5 of 10 on Hours Were the Birds (2013).

Duration: 2:41

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Lyrics for Steamboat

Well I am just a stranger I am only a walker I guess I am human But sometimes I feel Like I am only a ghost Like I am only a wall And If you come around honey I'll probably just follow you home Cause it's all to know how to do I was born by a body I'll die by one too And places ain't nothing If it ain't got you One day I am gonna be a steam boat baby One day I can be a freight train lady I'll roll down the river And the miles won't phase me Oh I wish I was better at being alone Still everynight I call you on the phone Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones I've been arranging each of my movements And all of my gestures And trying to fool myself Into thinking That everything is small That nothing has reason I woke up and cried A Convulsion of honesty Brought me to life When I thought I was gone But I can't put a lie in the mouth of a song One day I am gonna be a steam boat baby One day I can be a freight train lady I'll roll down the river And the miles won't phase me Oh I wish I was better at being alone Still everynight I call you on the phone Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

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More from Hours Were the Birds

  1. Hours Were the Birds
  2. Lighthouse
  3. Disappear
  4. Gone
  5. Steamboat
  6. To Violet
  7. Indiana
  8. Butterfly
  9. Snow Song
  10. A Love of Some Kind