Conjectures Of A Guilty Bystander letra

you are a gardener
you cultivate my soul
you water thirsty vines
that snake along my spine
in case I forget to shiver
you are a carpenter
you build the scaffolding
replace the windowpane
I see the sky again
as if I've been delivered

you are a fisherman
my weather lets you know
when and when not to wait
your hook's inside the bait
I'm wary but I swallow
you are a messenger
you bring me all the news
the kind that never lies
it's written in my eyes
you beckon and it follows

I get to be guilty

you are a singer too
carry me like a tune
I'm like a newborn child
I'm wrapped up for a while
you're swaying like a hobo
you are a circus clown
I've never laughed before
beneath your canopy
oh say a prayer for me
I want this in a photo

so be a photographer
I'm dancing naked now
across the maple floor
above the lion's roar
your pictures will protect me
you must be a scientist by now
with rumpled midnight hair
you've studied every pore
and every follicle
of my bewildered body

I get to be guilty

yours is a different light
I like my face that way
the canvas of my skin
serene and strange but true

Over The Rhine - Letras

• A Gospel Number
• All I Need
• All My Favorite People
• Amelia's Last
• And Can It Be
• Anything At All
• Anyway
• B.P.D.
• Birds
• Bluer
• Born
• Bothered
• Cast Me Away
• Changes Come
• Circle of Quiet
• Conjectures Of A Guilty Bystander
• Cruel and Pretty
• Daddy Untwisted
• Dead Weight
• Don't Wait For Tom
• Drunkard's Prayer
• Entertaining Thoughts
• Etcetera Whatever
• Everyman's Daughter
• Eyes Wide Open
• Fairpoint Diary
• Faithfully Dangerous
• Falling (Death of a Tree)
• Firefly
• Fly Dance
• Fool
• Gentle Wounds
• Give Me Strength
• Go Down Easy
• Goodbye (This Is Not Goodbye)
• Green-Clouded Swallowtail
• Grey Monologue
• Happy To Be So
• Happy With Myself?
• Hej (I Do)
• Hometown Boy
• How Long Have You Been Stoned
• Hush Now (Stella's Tarantella)
• I Don't Wanna Waste Your Time
• I Let It Go
• I Painted My Name
• I Radio Heaven
• I Want You To Be My Love
• I Will Remember
• I'm On a Roll
• I've Been Slipping
• Idea #21 (Not Too Late)
• If I'm Drowning
• If Nothing Else
• Iron Curtain
• It's Never Quite What It Seems
• Jack's Valentine
• Jacksie
• Jesus In New Orleans
• June
• Last Night
• Latter Days
• Let's Spend The Day In Bed
• Lifelong Fling
• Like A Radio
• Little Blue River/In The Garden
• Little Did I Know
• Long Lost Brother
• Lookin' Forward
• Lucy
• Lullabye
• Mary's Waltz
• Melancholy Room
• Miles
• Moth
• Murder
• My Love Is A Fever
• Nobody Number One
• Nothing Is Innocent
• Ohio
• Paul and Virginia
• Poughkeepsie
• Professional Daydreamer
• Remind Us
• Rhapsodie
• Sea and Sky
• She
• Should
• Show Me
• Sister
• Sleep Baby Jane
• Someday
• Spark
• Spinning
• Suitcase
• The Body is a Stairway of Skin
• The Genius of Water
• The Seahorse
• The World Can Wait
• Toledo, Ohio
• Trouble
• Ubiquitous Hands
• What I'll Remember Most
• Whatever You Say
• When I Go
• When You Say Love
• Who Will Guard The Door
• Within Without