Mewithoutyou - 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 />

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between<br />

Sweet rhan any wine and bitter as mustard greens<br />

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

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

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As you plow some other field try and forget my name<br />

See what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same<br />

I planted rows of peas but by the first week of July<br />

They should have come up to my knees<br />

But they were maybe ankle high<br />

Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns<br />

And boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars<br />

But now the books are overdueand the goats are underfed<br />

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 />

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

If I come without a thing, then 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