Mewithoutyou - Four Word Letter Lyrics
I wrote a four word letter, with post script, in crooked lines,"Tho I'd lived Id never been alive."You know who I amYou held my hem as I traveledBlind listening to a whispering in my ear,Soft, but getting stronger,Telling me the only purpose of my being here is to stay abit longer.So I stole a bicycle chain,The handlebars crashed to the ground,The back wheel detached from the frame,It kept rolling, but aimlessly drifting aroundOh, doubters, let's go downWon't you come on down to the river to pray?"But I'm so small i can barely be seen.How can this great love be inside of me?"Look at your eyes,They're small in size, but they see enormous things.Wearing black canvas slippers in that frog-on-a-lily-padpose.We sewed buttons and zippers to pink chinese silkand olive night clothes.If you can omeday stop by somehow we'll show youthe pictures & fix you some tea.(See, my dad's getting a bit older now, and justunimaginable lonely)Oh, pretenders, let's go down.Won't you come on down to the river and pray?"But I'm so afraid," or "I'm set in my ways"But he'll make the rabbits and rocks sing his praise"But I'm so tired, I won't last long."No, he uses weak things to overcome the strong!Oh Amanda, let's go downmama, nana, won't you come on down to the river andpray?A wick to fit the wax,Wood to fit the wireYou strike the matchWhy not be utterly changed to fire?To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life younever mich likedIf you'd care to come along we're gonna curb all our neverending,Clever complaining (as who's ever heard of a singercriticized by his song?)We hunger, but through all that we eat brings us a littlereliefWe don't know quite what else to do,We have all our beliefs,But we don't want our beliefs,God of peace,We want you.
