Finishing the Hat

Song Finishing the Hat
Artist Philip Quast
Album Live at the Donmar

Lyrics

[00:04.57] Yes, she looks for me-good.
[00:11.99] Let her look for me to tell me why she left me-
[00:16.68] As I always knew she would.
[00:21.04] I had thought she understood.
[00:25.18] They have never understood,
[00:27.68] And no reason that they should.
[00:31.62] But if anybody could...
[00:41.54] Finishing the hat,
[00:45.03] How you have to finish the hat.
[00:48.59] How you watch the rest of the world
[00:50.56] From a window
[00:52.93] While you finish the hat.
[00:56.32] Mapping out a sky.
[00:59.59] What you feel like, planning a sky.
[01:03.10] What you feel when voices that come
[01:04.95] Through the window
[01:06.64] Go
[01:08.05] Until they distance and die,
[01:11.50] Until there's nothing but sky
[01:15.02] And how you're always turning back too late
[01:18.36] From the grass or the stick
[01:20.28] Or the dog or the light,
[01:21.87] How the kind of woman willing to wait's
[01:24.94] Not the kind that you want to find waiting
[01:28.40] To return you to the night,
[01:32.20] Dizzy from the height,
[01:35.82] Coming from the hat,
[01:39.19] Studying the hat,
[01:42.76] Entering the world of the hat,
[01:46.24] Reaching through the world of the hat
[01:48.06] Like a window,
[01:50.75] Back to this one from that.
[01:53.78] Studying a face,
[01:56.98] Stepping back to look at a face
[02:00.83] Leaves a little space in the way like a window,
[02:05.94] But to see-
[02:08.81] It's the only way to see.
[02:13.08] And when the woman that you wanted goes,
[02:16.22] You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give."
[02:19.38] But the women who won't wait for you knows
[02:23.07] That, however you live,
[02:24.71] There's a part of you always standing by,
[02:29.35] Mapping out the sky,
[02:36.07] Finishing a hat...
[02:40.04] Starting on a hat..
[02:43.47] Finishing a hat...
[02:46.87] Look, I made a hat...
[02:53.46] Where there never was a hat