Here are the exact lyrics for this song, transcribed from Sufjan's handwriting in the first pressing of the album. The lyrics are originally written without line breaks (except for this song, which has one).
Wordsworth's Ridge (for Fran Fike): A summer night, I find a boat tied to a tree: a normal home. She lost her string, and stepping in, I push the shore there, an act of stealth. A troubled glad without a voice, the mountain song, the boat moves on. The water runs on either side; the circle swell, a sudden light takes me. I fix my view upon the ridge. Horizon's eye - above the gray sky.
I tip my oar to raise the stroke, the wading swan, the image broke, a looming peak, a pirate size, uprears its head a sudden guise takes me.
Here are the exact lyrics for this song, transcribed from Sufjan's handwriting in the first pressing of the album. The lyrics are originally written without line breaks (except for this song, which has one).
Wordsworth's Ridge (for Fran Fike): A summer night, I find a boat tied to a tree: a normal home. She lost her string, and stepping in, I push the shore there, an act of stealth. A troubled glad without a voice, the mountain song, the boat moves on. The water runs on either side; the circle swell, a sudden light takes me. I fix my view upon the ridge. Horizon's eye - above the gray sky. I tip my oar to raise the stroke, the wading swan, the image broke, a looming peak, a pirate size, uprears its head a sudden guise takes me.