Paper-Hanger

[Verse 1]

Her not one motion or gesture could I forget

The prettiest bag lady I ever met

Pushing her cart in the rain, then gathering plastic and glass

She watched the day pass

Not hour by hour, but pain by pain

And I was a basket filled with holes

And she was the sand I tried to hold that ran out behind me

As I swung at some invisible hand

[Pre-Chorus]

I stopped believing, you start to move

(She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine)

I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed

(And you can pour us out and we won't mind)

[Chorus]

I was dead then alive

She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine

You can pour us out, we won't mind

A scratch around the mouth of the glass, my life is no longer mine

[Verse 2]

And if you're still looking for a blanket, sweetie

I'm sorry, I'm no sort of fabric

But if you need a tailor

Then take your torn shirt and stumble up my stairs

And mumble your pitiful prayers

And in your tangled, knotted sleep

Our midnight needles go to work

Until all comfort and fear flows in one river

Down in the shop by the mirror where you see yourself whole

And it makes you shiver

[Pre-Chorus]

I stopped believing, you start to move

(And she was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine)

I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed

(And you can pour us out and we won't mind)

[Chorus]

I was dead then alive

She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine

You can pour us out, we won't mind

A scratch around the mouth of the glass, our lives are not our own

[Outro]

Even the wind lay still, our essence was fire, and cold

And movement, movement, oh

If they ask you for the sign of the Father in you

Tell 'em it's movement, movement, movement, oh

And repose