Lyrics

Sarah with an h

On my belly in the basement, through the window of your room
I can almost reach the doorknob with the handle of this broom
But you?re stuck outside the basement and you cannot find your keys
So I?m crawling through the window and I?m tearing up my knees
And as sure as you rise to keep the peace, I fall to pieces at your feet

Will I drive you to the airport or did I misunderstand?
Am I stuck inside your carport with your sweater in my hand?
If you look to see what?s thawing in this sleeping bag of ice
You might see what?s left to see there, cause it?s really very nice
And as sure as you rise to keep the peace, I fall to pieces at your feet

You?ll soon be swimming in some distant ocean
I?ll be stranded on my local shore
My head brimming with some fantastic notion
And two years peaceful like before?

Now that burn upon your leg, wrapped in gauze, very tender still
To touch if you?re not careful and you brush it with your hand
Is a silent, sweet decay, like my picture on your window sill
So far gone today that I may never understand
That this is gonna take some time, but it?s the one thing that you have now
So try and hold the line till you make it overland
And when you?re safe and dry in some long-forgotten basement
Crawl through your own window, you don?t need me as your man
And as sure as you rise to keep the peace, I fall to pieces at your feet

Copyright 1996 Sean Michael Dargan