Bear's Vision of St. Agnes Lyrics

Song	Bear's Vision of St. Agnes
Artist	mewithoutYou
Album	Ten Stories
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	Barren rocks and sand, our wooden sculpture hands,
	Held like a timber hitch, held candles to the sun
	Both faint and fading fast, we walked on, windward
	Kept time with a pocketmouse, mouths kept mostly shut
	Thought broke the silence like a bone
	FOX: [half-moaning] “you've worn me like an albatross,
	I've only slowed you down.
	You could've long traded in your braided crown by now
	You could've found that Anabaptist girl you always used to go on about
	As we rode in circles on our bicycles;
	We walked on balance beams
	The audience cheered for us
	We burned like fevers under carriage hats
	Hid behind Venetian masks
	In our human costumes
	We stood like statues once in shepherd's check
	We'll both be decked in herringbone,
	Wrapped border drab around already broken ironstone”
	BEAR: “But I've seen these cliffs before,
	St. Agnes brought her palm branch to the hospital
	Looked upward lest the charm had fled
	From my brother's breathing bed
	And when he died I shut his dogtooth violet eyes:
	He looked just like me
	Climb on down and see
	They laid him on the rocks below
	There'll be enough to fill your cup for days;
	I'll stay up here and rest.
	[aside] We'll fly in straight lines as from carronades
	We'll crash like tidal waves, decimate the islands
	As our hollowed lumber falls like water, ends where I start
	In that tattered rag shop back in Asbury Park
	Look how soon my hands won't move
	But if you'll improve, we'll all improve
	Sixty feet and my feet won't move
	But if you'll improve, we'll all improve
	Forty feet, my legs won't move
	But as you improve, we all improve
	Fill our den with acorn mast,
	I'll wake before the salmon pass
	Ten foot more and nothing moves”

	Barren rocks and sand, our wooden sculpture hands,
	Held like a timber hitch, held candles to the sun
	Both faint and fading fast, we walked on, windward
	Kept time with a pocketmouse, mouths kept mostly shut
	Thought broke the silence like a bone
	FOX: halfmoaning " you' ve worn me like an albatross,
	I' ve only slowed you down.
	You could' ve long traded in your braided crown by now
	You could' ve found that Anabaptist girl you always used to go on about
	As we rode in circles on our bicycles
	We walked on balance beams
	The audience cheered for us
	We burned like fevers under carriage hats
	Hid behind Venetian masks
	In our human costumes
	We stood like statues once in shepherd' s check
	We' ll both be decked in herringbone,
	Wrapped border drab around already broken ironstone"
	BEAR: " But I' ve seen these cliffs before,
	St. Agnes brought her palm branch to the hospital
	Looked upward lest the charm had fled
	From my brother' s breathing bed
	And when he died I shut his dogtooth violet eyes:
	He looked just like me
	Climb on down and see
	They laid him on the rocks below
	There' ll be enough to fill your cup for days
	I' ll stay up here and rest.
	aside We' ll fly in straight lines as from carronades
	We' ll crash like tidal waves, decimate the islands
	As our hollowed lumber falls like water, ends where I start
	In that tattered rag shop back in Asbury Park
	Look how soon my hands won' t move
	But if you' ll improve, we' ll all improve
	Sixty feet and my feet won' t move
	But if you' ll improve, we' ll all improve
	Forty feet, my legs won' t move
	But as you improve, we all improve
	Fill our den with acorn mast,
	I' ll wake before the salmon pass
	Ten foot more and nothing moves"

	Barren rocks and sand, our wooden sculpture hands,
	Held like a timber hitch, held candles to the sun
	Both faint and fading fast, we walked on, windward
	Kept time with a pocketmouse, mouths kept mostly shut
	Thought broke the silence like a bone
	FOX: halfmoaning " you' ve worn me like an albatross,
	I' ve only slowed you down.
	You could' ve long traded in your braided crown by now
	You could' ve found that Anabaptist girl you always used to go on about
	As we rode in circles on our bicycles
	We walked on balance beams
	The audience cheered for us
	We burned like fevers under carriage hats
	Hid behind Venetian masks
	In our human costumes
	We stood like statues once in shepherd' s check
	We' ll both be decked in herringbone,
	Wrapped border drab around already broken ironstone"
	BEAR: " But I' ve seen these cliffs before,
	St. Agnes brought her palm branch to the hospital
	Looked upward lest the charm had fled
	From my brother' s breathing bed
	And when he died I shut his dogtooth violet eyes:
	He looked just like me
	Climb on down and see
	They laid him on the rocks below
	There' ll be enough to fill your cup for days
	I' ll stay up here and rest.
	aside We' ll fly in straight lines as from carronades
	We' ll crash like tidal waves, decimate the islands
	As our hollowed lumber falls like water, ends where I start
	In that tattered rag shop back in Asbury Park
	Look how soon my hands won' t move
	But if you' ll improve, we' ll all improve
	Sixty feet and my feet won' t move
	But if you' ll improve, we' ll all improve
	Forty feet, my legs won' t move
	But as you improve, we all improve
	Fill our den with acorn mast,
	I' ll wake before the salmon pass
	Ten foot more and nothing moves"

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