Every Day

Every day I picture things falling down Landscapes all tossed around In cities, I start to drown But when I stop to push the fear out of me Come steady my shaking knees And drag the roots out to sea And it's hard to be steeped in your gaze You're always drinking me, I have no place To be awkward and silent Spoil your tongue with my silence My flavor ripens inside this There is no love without trying There is no easy way, when I Crane my neck to kiss your head, I know That there is something that I can rely on And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew It's some kind of future that I can be sure of Oh, I'm just breathing air Contracts on everything Reluctant and measuring The food that we choose to bring But I can trace an invisible piece of string Connects between you and me Like symbols of property Oh, when I recognize, cut from a cloth Always solid and breathing You and I retract like swans Always advance and receding Believe in something worth eating Shared love is something like feeding There is no trust without meaning There is no easy way, when I Crane my neck to kiss your head, I know That there is something that I can rely on And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew It's some kind of future that I can be sure of And I wonder why there is no choice in the things that we hear We hear our lives inside these sounds There's nothing good on the radio There's never anything good on There's never anything good on There's nothing good on the radio There's never anything, so I stop to sing And these things come rushing from behind Life is changing so fast, and there's nothing I can do to stop it But when I crane my neck to kiss your head, I know That there is something that I can rely on And when I strain my thoughts to push this thread I sew It's some kind of future that I can be sure of Because I love you, because I love you Because I love you, because I love you