Lyrics mewithoutYou – Carousels
Text:
On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, «Why am I going to town?»
As I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought, «Why do I look around?»
And I kissed the filthy ground… the first dry spot I found…
I didn’t have to wonder why I was laying down.
Before long I was too cold… took a bus back to the station,
I found a letter left by a pay phone with no return contact
And it read like a horn blown by some sad angel,
«Bunny, it was me… it was me who let you down»
It was the shyest attempt I’d ever seen at conversation.
But if I didn’t have You as my guide, I’d still wander lost in Sinai,
Counting the plates of cars from out-of-state,
How I could jump in their path as they hurry along!
And You surround me, You’re pretty but You’re all I can see
Like a thick fog…
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.
And St. Cyril’s fair always came through the first week of September
But it’s already the 19th… and there’s no sign of it…
Yet I have a hard time remembering all the things I should remember
And a hard time forgetting all the things that I was supposed to forget.
And, Christ, when You’re ready to come back,
Then I think I’m ready for You to come back;
But if You want to stay wherever exactly it is You are,
That’s okay, too… it’s, it’s really none of my business.
And if I didn’t have You as my guide, I’d still wander lost in Sinai
Or down by the tracks watching trains go by
To remind me: there are places that aren’t here.
And I had a well but all the water left,
So I’ll go ask Your forgiveness with every breath,
And if there was no way into God,