Song Description

3/4 time @ 92 bpm, 4-piece band performance, mellow overall with an underlying rowdy tension. Finding no reasons to the love-loss, the chorus beams "We go as we go, we do as we do" as the narrator finds resolve in not understanding the reasons, but accepting the outcome. Atmospheric and open, with a general swaying feel. 2-chord Break down @ 2:41 with gentle guitar solos.

Lyrics

I fell in love with another man's wife,

like a blood-drunk mosquito to a burning neon light,
through a cold hazy spring, through the hottest July,

but weeks turn to winters and days into nights.
Paths change directions and curve out of sight.

We go as we go, we do as we do.
As we waltzed through the room,

they'd strike up the band with some grandstanding chorus
as our feet left the floor when we broke for the door.

I set her the driver of a rambling train
we steered with our hearts down the rails of our brains

until we dizzied our heads, and we called for the brake
a little too quietly, a little too late.

We lost all direction riding round figure eights.

Stopping on the run.
It wasn't for the beating sun,
it wasn't for the cloudy rainy days.

It wasn't for the wind,
it wasn't for the aching skin I'm in,
it wasn't for the hunger, wasn't for the pain.

Then let's go as the wind blows.
Then let's go as the wind blows.

It wasn't lessons learned,
it wasn't for a lack of nerve,
it wasn't for the loose rock around the blind curve.

And if it wasn't for my tongue,
nearly lame and twice as dumb,
then I could shape the words for what the stopping was for.

Till then ...