Incomprehensible

[Intro] Incomprehensible Incomprehensible Incomprehensible, let me be [Verse 1] Highway 17, cotton candy rain Driving with my lover, we missed our plane So we added on the hours to see the lupine flowers Way out past the border, we blew through Thunder Bay [Verse 2] The pine trees are narrow, a billion broken arrows The ravens and the crows, robins and the sparrows All across Ontario, static on the stereo Went swimming in the lake, Old Woman Bay [Verse 3] Traveling with some stuff I left when I was a kid Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid Full of broken gadgets that mean nothin' now The only thing I'll keep are the letters and the photographs [Verse 4] In two days it's my birthday and I'll be thirty-three That doesn't really matter next to eternity But I like a double number, and I like an odd one too And everything I see from now on will be somethin' new [Verse 5] "I'm afraid of getting older", that's what I've learned to say Society has given me the words to think that way The message spirals, "Don't get saggy, don't get grey" But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder [Verse 6] My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too Wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue How can beauty that is living be anything but true? [Verse 7] So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair Let me dance in front of people without a care Let me be naked alone with nobody there With mismatched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear [Outro] Incomprehensible, let me be Incomprehensible, let me be Incomprehensible, let me be