​If I’m

Lyrics

You led the way to off-white walls And wooden floors and open doors And birds and birds and birds And all with dusty backs Among these books all leather-jacketed But I could only find, in my own time The way to Arizona's yellow tent Afloat upon the lake And I'm alone but in another way I found a black bat tangled in a birch tree If I'm a body, you're a blanket on me If I'm a forest, you're the field at my feet If I'm a corner that the dark backs into You're the darkness that this corner clings to If I'm the mountain with the moon above me I, the mountain, choose the moon to envy And there's a line on my palm I know it's not very long I know it's not what you want But there's a light in the dark And there'll be light if I'm gone