Mavis Staples - Impressionable lyrics

rate me

Can I wait when your mighty arms are all that’s holding me?

Can I wait when everything is crashing down on me?

When life is too much to bear will I stay there?

I saved this dance for you. I wore my finest suit.

I cleaned myself up and I memorized all the moves.

Oh how I long for this song to play forever and forever more.

Through it’s duration I live, and you’re the melody that I live for.

But the song ends, and so plays the all too familiar last note

Leading so gracefully into the song that only I wrote

Whisked away, now holding onto a memory of the song I once knew.

Complacent, yet remembering how I felt when I felt you.

I’m new. I’m frail. I’m fragile…

So impressionable, yet so hard to change.

Change me!<br />

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Thanks to razvan