Lime Tree

Album: Cassadega (2007)
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  • I keep floating down the river but the ocean never comes
    Since the operation I heard you're breathing just for one
    Now everything is imaginary, especially what you love
    You left another message, said it's done
    It's done

    When I hear beautiful music it's always from another time
    Old friends I never visit, I remember what they're like
    Standing on a doorstep full of nervous butterflies
    Waiting to be asked to come inside
    Just come inside

    But I keep going out
    I can't sleep next to a stranger when I'm coming down
    It's 8 a.m., my heart is beating too loud
    Too loud
    Don't be so amazing or I'll miss you too much
    I felt something that I had never touched
    Everything gets smaller now the further that I go
    Towards the mouth and the reunion of the known and the unknown
    Consider yourself lucky if you think of it as home
    You can move mountains with your misery if you don't
    If you don't

    It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two
    Under the eaves of that old lime tree I stood examining the fruit
    Some were ripe and some were rotten, I felt naseous with the truth
    There will never be a time more opportune

    So I just won't be late
    The window closes, shocks roll over in a tidal wave
    And all the color drains out of the frame
    So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good
    I took off my shoes and walked into the woods
    I felt lost and found with every step I took Writer/s: CONOR OBERST
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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