promise is a pendulum (Live) - Adrianne Lenker

Lyrics by：Adrianne Lenker

Composed by：Adrianne Lenker

Produced by：Andrew Sarlo

I could never build the ether

Or the grass overgrown

I could build the river

Love my guitar or a mouth full of foam

I could never build the winter

With her cold tears of glitter

I've been listening to the red oak

The acorn she cries

Listening to the white birch

The paper she dries

Listening to the frogs joke

Listening to the fire smoke

I could never tell you now

What I had often said before

Because promise is a pendulum

Just swinging at the door

I'm not saying I'm not

Jealous or scared anymore

I'm just saying

I could never build a

Rainbow or any kind of flower

I could never make a sparrow

Or a meteor shower

Could never make a earthworm

Never make the earth turn

I've been listening to the

Laughing of the fox down the trail

Clasping to the listening of

The moss to the snail

Shimmer of the beech leaves

As the wind does a big sneeze

I could never tell you now

What I had often said before

Because promise is a pendulum

Just swinging at the door

I'm not saying I'm not

Jealous or scared anymore

I'm just saying

I could never build the shadow

Between your cheek and your eye

I could never make a freckle

Or the warm breath you sigh

The canopy of lashes with the

Softness of ashes

I've been listening to a memory

The way that it was

Listening to the echo of why and because

Listening to the echo telling me to let go

I could never tell you now

What I had often said before

Because promise is a pendulum

Just swinging at the door

I'm not saying I'm not

Jealous or scared anymore

I'm just saying

Saying saying saying