Sifters - Andrew Bird

Sound is a wave, like a wave on the ocean

Moon plays the ocean like a violin

Pushing and pulling from shore to shore

Biggest melody you never heard before

If I were the night sky

Here’s my lullaby

Lullaby to leave by

If I were the night

What if we hadn’t been born at the same time?

What if you’re seventy five and I were nine?

Would I come visit you?

Bring you cookies in an old folks home?

Would you be there alone?

And when the late summer lightning

Fires off in your arms

Will I remember to breathe?

No, I never will, no

And the fire could convince you that I mean you no harm

Just wanna show you how not to need

What if we hadn’t been each other at the same time?

Would you tell me all the stories

From when you were young and in your prime?

Would I rock you to sleep?

Would you tell me all the secrets you don’t need to keep?

Would I still miss you?

Oh, would you then

Have been mine?

Sound is a wave, like a wave on the ocean

Moon plays the ocean like a violin

Pushing and pulling from shore to shore

Biggest melody you never heard before