Mewithoutyou - In A Sweater, Poorly Knit lyrics

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In a sweater poorly knit, and an unsuspecting smile<br />

Little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile<br />

A fumbling reply -- an awkward, rigid laugh<br />

I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft<br />

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Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine, and bitter as mustard greens<br />

Light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickle bread<br />

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The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead<br />

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As you plow some other field and try and forget my name, see what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same<br />

I planted rows of peas, but by the first week of july -- they should have come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high<br />

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Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns, and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars<br />

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But now books are overdue and the goats are underfed... the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead<br />

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You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence<br />

You made a holy fool of me, and I've thanked you ever since<br />

If she comes circling back, we'll end where we'd begun<br />

Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one<br />

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Or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken, open seed<br />

If I come without a thing, I come with all I need<br />

No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head<br />

The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead<br />

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I<br />

do<br />

not <br />

exist<br />

only <br />

YOU<br />

exist