Lay Me Down - A Weather

Your umbrella

Is fighting hard against the strong gale

Blowing off of the Atlantic

Shuddering around your

Brown hair

It’s courageous, when it’s spokes start bending

Trying not to go inside out

Trying just to do it’s duty

To keep your hair dry and your shoulders

And you can see a lot of great, alive things

And know it means, something much more, than being alive

And you can see one girl hurt three people

In a half a week

And forgive her

You can find the strength, to let her sleep here

It’s nothing doing, I’ve been much worse

I’ve mated ice cubes down my shirt

And then a warm fear (?), to dry the puddle on my belly

I have no problems

I have no right to be so tired

I slept all night and I’m exhausted

Did you have to be so strong?

Did, you have to be, so strong?

(Did you have to be so strong?)

And Jesus, just between you and me

I’m sick from the pressure box

And faces, I thought I’d forgot

If you could help me, that would mean a lot

Tucking back your hair

Right behind your ear

Like it belongs there

Like it should live there

Like it has a home there

To keep out of your face

To keep it out of your sight

Lay

Lay me down, like a stone

Raise me

And raise me up, like new breath

Lay

Lay me down, like a stone

Raise me up

(raise me up)

Like new bread

And it’s no fun, standing here like a snowman

Trapped inside a cloudy snow-globe

Waiting for someone to shake me

And I can’t sleep

When I know I’m gonna wake up

It’s better not to know about stuff

Waiting for you in the morning

So, I push my hands under the mattress

Like I’m searching for, something secret

That I’ve hidden there

Why should we rely so much on new things, to replace the old

And strong light from the giant hand

That warmed us, as we went to sleep?

Tucking back your hair

Right behind your ear

Like it belongs there

Like it should live there

Like it has a home there

To keep it out of your view

To keep it out of your sight

Lay

Lay me down, like a stone

Raise me up

(raise me up) like new breath

Lay

Lay me down, like a stone

Raise me up

(raise me up)

Like new bread