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Artist/Band:
Over the Rhine
Lyrics for Song: Conjectures Of A Guilty Bystander
Lyrics for Album: Eve [1992]
Conjectures Of A Guilty Bystander
words: Detweiler
music: Detweiler and Hordinski
recording: Eve
you are a gardener
you cultivate my soul
you water thirsty vines
that snake along my spine
in case I forget to shiver
you are a carpenter
you build the scaffolding
replace the windowpane
I see the sky again
as if I've been delivered
you are a fisherman
my weather lets you know
when and when not to wait
your hook's inside the bait
I'm wary but I swallow
you are a messenger
you bring me all the news
the kind that never lies
it's written in my eyes
you beckon and it follows
I get to be guilty
you are a singer too
carry me like a tune
I'm like a newborn child
I'm wrapped up for a while
you're swaying like a hobo
you are a circus clown
I've never laughed before
beneath your canopy
oh say a prayer for me
I want this in a photo
so be a photographer
I'm dancing naked now
across the maple floor
above the lion's roar
your pictures will protect me
you must be a scientist by now
with rumpled midnight hair
you've studied every pore
and every follicle
of my bewildered body
I get to be guilty
yours is a different light
I like my face that way
the canvas of my skin
serene and strange but true
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