Hejira

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I'm traveling in some vehicle I'm sitting in some café A defector from the petty wars That shell shock love away [Verse 2] There's comfort in melancholy When there's no need to explain It's just as natural as the weather In this moody sky today [Verse 3] In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now, I am returning to myself These things that you and I suppressed [Verse 4] I see something of myself in everyone Just at this moment of the world As snow gathers like bolts of lace Waltzing on a ballroom girl [Interlude 1] [Verse 5] You know, it never has been easy Whether you do, or you do not, resign Whether you travel the breadth of extremities Or stick to some straighter line [Verse 6] Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock They're either going to thaw out, or freeze Listen: strains of Benny Goodman Coming through the snow and the pinewood trees [Verse 7] I'm porous with travel fever But you know I'm so glad to be on my own Still, somehow, the slightest touch of a stranger Can set up trembling in my bones [Verse 8] I know no one's gonna show me everything We all come and go unknown Each so deep and superficial Between the forceps and the stone [Interlude 2] [Verse 9] Well, I looked at the granite markers Those tributes to finality, to eternity And then I looked at myself here Chicken scratching for my immortality [Verse 10] In the church they light the candles And the wax rolls down like tears There is the hope and the hopelessness I've witnessed thirty years [Verse 11] We're only particles of change, I know, I know Orbiting around the sun But how can I have that point of view When I'm always bound and tied to someone? [Verse 12] White flags of winter chimneys Waving truce against the moon In the mirrors of a modern bank From the window of a hotel room [Interlude 3] [Verse 13] I'm traveling in some vehicle I'm sitting in some café A defector from the petty wars Until love sucks me back that way [Outro]