Mewithoutyou - Paper Hanger lyrics

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Not one motion of her gesture could I forget<br />

The prettiest bag lady I ever met<br />

Pushing her cart in the rain<br />

Then gathering plastic and glass<br />

She watched the day pass<br />

Not hour by hour<br />

But pain by pain<br />

If I was a basket filled with holes<br />

Then she was the sand I tried to hold<br />

And ran out behind me<br />

As I swung with some invisible hands<br />

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I stopped believing, you start to move<br />

She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine<br />

I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed<br />

And you can pour us out and we won't mind<br />

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I was dead, then alive<br />

She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine<br />

You can pour us out, we won't mind<br />

A scratch around the mouth of the glass<br />

My life is no longer mine<br />

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If you're still looking for a blanket<br />

Sweetie, I'm sorry, I'm no sort of fabric<br />

But if you need a tailor<br />

Then take your torn shirt, and stumble up my stairs<br />

And mumble your pitiful prayers<br />

And in your tangled night's sleep, our midnight needles go to work<br />

Until all comfort and fear flows in one river<br />

Down on the shelf by the mirror where you see yourself whole<br />

And it makes you shiver<br />

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I stopped believing, you start to move<br />

She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine<br />

I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed<br />

And you can pour us out and we won't mind<br />

<br />

I was dead, then alive<br />

She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine<br />

You can pour us out, we won't mind<br />

A scratch around the mouth of the glass<br />

My life is no longer mine<br />

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Our lives are not our own <br />

Even the wind lays still<br />

All I felt was fire and cold<br />

And movement, movement<br />

If they ask you for a sign of the Father<br />

Tell them it's movement, movement and repose