Mewithoutyou Brownish Spider Lyrics
Artist - Mewithoutyou
Album - Brother Sister
every thing I thought I'd learned,
[while, in my little world, I patched a plaster wall
ambition and illusion turned
and in my little world, I was waiting (just dying!)
to drawings on a loose leaf sheet
to take offence at something
of tarts and cakes I couldn't eat
this is all there is in my sad little world]
what in her do I require?
in darkness a light shines
the face of gratified desire
on you and on me
what in me does she require?
the face of gratified desire
I never gathered figs from a thorny branch,
I never picked a grapefruit off a bramble bush
brownish spiders,
and for the past five - almost six years now! -
brownish leaf
you know you haven't once looked at me
confirms my deepest held belief.
with kindness in your eyes
no more spider,
you say Judas is a brother of mine?
no more leaf,
but sister in our darkness a light shines
no more me,
and all I ever want to say for the rest of my life
no more belief.
is how that light is G-d,
and though I've been mistaken on this or that point,
and that light is nevertheless G-d.
every thing I thought I'd learned,
ambition and illusion turned
to drawings on a loose leaf sheet
of tarts and cakes I couldn't eat
what in her do I require?
the face of gratified desire
what in me does she require?
the face of gratified desire
brownish spiders,
brownish leaf
confirms my deepest held belief.
no more spider,
no more leaf,
no more me,
no more belief.