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Not one motion of her gesture could I forget
The prettiest bag lady I ever met
Pushing her cart in the rain
Then gathering plastic and glass
She watched the day pass
Not hour by hour
But pain by pain
If I was a basket filled with holes
Then she was the sand I tried to hold
And ran out behind me
As I swung with some invisible hands
I stopped believing, you start to move
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine
I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed
And you can pour us out and we won't mind
I was dead, then alive
She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine
You can pour us out, we won't mind
A scratch around the mouth of the glass
My life is no longer mine
If you're still looking for a blanket
Sweetie, I'm sorry, I'm no sort of fabric
But if you need a tailor
Then take your torn shirt, and stumble up my stairs
And mumble your pitiful prayers
And in your tangled night's sleep, our midnight needles go to work
Until all comfort and fear flows in one river
Down on the shelf by the mirror where you see yourself whole
And it makes you shiver
I stopped believing, you start to move
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine
I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed
And you can pour us out and we won't mind
I was dead, then alive
She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine
You can pour us out, we won't mind
A scratch around the mouth of the glass
My life is no longer mine
(Our lives are not our own)
Even the wind lays still
Our essence was fire and cold
and movement, movement
If they ask you for the sign of the Father in you
Tell them, it's movement, movement, movement (and repose).
The prettiest bag lady I ever met
Pushing her cart in the rain
Then gathering plastic and glass
She watched the day pass
Not hour by hour
But pain by pain
If I was a basket filled with holes
Then she was the sand I tried to hold
And ran out behind me
As I swung with some invisible hands
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine
I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed
And you can pour us out and we won't mind
She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine
You can pour us out, we won't mind
A scratch around the mouth of the glass
My life is no longer mine
Sweetie, I'm sorry, I'm no sort of fabric
But if you need a tailor
Then take your torn shirt, and stumble up my stairs
And mumble your pitiful prayers
And in your tangled night's sleep, our midnight needles go to work
Until all comfort and fear flows in one river
Down on the shelf by the mirror where you see yourself whole
And it makes you shiver
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine
I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed
And you can pour us out and we won't mind
She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine
You can pour us out, we won't mind
A scratch around the mouth of the glass
My life is no longer mine
Even the wind lays still
Our essence was fire and cold
and movement, movement
If they ask you for the sign of the Father in you
Tell them, it's movement, movement, movement (and repose).
Song Info
Submitted by
softwhitewalls On Sep 27, 2004
More mewithoutYou
January 1979
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so, first, you're all correct in saying that the right lyric is "movement and repose" but this isn't genius on the weiss's part. it's actually a line from the gospel of thomas. it's not a real part of the Bible, but instead considered to be a gnostic book. and sometimes aaron weiss does this. if you read about them, they are not strictly Christian, but they do know what a real honest relationship with God is. so, i'd just make sure to take everything they are saying with a grain of salt. aaron weiss is super smart and knows a lot about a lot of religions, and incorporates them. so yeah. idk. just a thought.
this is my favorite song off the new album.
this is not my favorite song of the new album but thats because i love all of them Four Word Letter Pt. 2 is amazing The Soviet is Amazing
do you have a track listing?
because that would help me.
never mind, i guess the album came out today.
their lyrics are some of the most beautiful peices ive ever read. it describes the subtlest things with such perfection.. not really sure the relevance of the first verse though.
he's saying that actions or desires that he had to fix her pain were useless. lending more the the fact that God is what we need to heal us, expressing the futility he felt when he realized he could not fix her emotional pain through his own works. the first line should be "in not one motion or gesture could i forget..."
If they ask you for a sign of the Father Tell them it's movement, movement (of hope)
Goodness, that's so nice.
If they ask you for a sign of the Father Tell them it's movement, movement (of hope)
Goodness, that's so nice.
The last line is, "Movement, movement, movement and repose."