Sewing

Lyrics for Sewing

I don't know quite where to begin I know it don't look like I'm doing anything In a mess of scraps, colors, clash, I know I'm sewing together a day From these hours and the way you touched my hand just now The things you say, blue Don't look like much from here There's no straight lines, nothing that clear Aimless days, bad moves The changes I can't get used to I'm so into get the rear From bar, from love, from fear and magnolia Pedals on the ground, pink on brown on the street Some people don want to see the seams They want it all done by a machine Straight and plain, no traces of making But no two days are ever the same Sometimes I get hit by a shattering pain I won't try to forget I'm going to include it In this undulating thing This blanket I seem to be making From pride and shame Beauty and guilt Sewing together a quill Too late for perfection, a cleanup mess Too late to take it all back, I guess All I can do is sew it into This untillating thing Whatever it is I making with you A life if I were sewing tonight too Too late for perfection to clean up the mess Too late to take it all back, I guess All I can do is solve this sin too I'm dying the white colors blue I'm trying to show to you something I saw and can explain Tulips pushed over my rain I'm trying to cook a meal I'm hungry, I pull off the peel of whatever Sweet thing I'm holding Sing my teeth into knowing it well I'm walking from side to side I'm taking pictures of the sky again I don't know why, I guess I wanted to