Day That I Was Born Songtext
von The Old Ceremony

I could let go of the wheel tonight
And surrender to the gears and the motors
I set all in motion until they find
A splintery bed on which to lie

I can almost smell your hair tonight
The hypnotic poisonous dandelion
I watered and set you out in the sun
But you closed your petals to everyone

We built a rickety bridge of sighs
And we nestled and watched as the rivers rise
For every new creature an old one dies
And washes out into the foamy skies


′Cause you knew the poetry
I just knew the poem
You woke up next to me
The day that I was born

We treaded water and greens and blues
And you clung to my neck as if you knew
That we'd watch this scene from a basement wall
And our faces would stutter and rise and fall

And I held a robin up to my chest
But his heart beat so loud out of fear I guess
So I let it go a lesson learned
Now I haunt my window for its return

′Cause you knew the poetry
I just knew the poem
You woke up next to me
The day that I was born


Well there's only so much that I can say
Without stealing the words from your dogeared pages
'Cause I only started to bend my spines
The ghost of your fingertips haunt my lines