Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - Over The Rhine

You are a gardener you cultivate my soul you water thirsty vines

That snake along my spine in case I forget to shiver

You are a carpenter

You build the scaffolding replace the windowpane

I see the sky again as if I've been delivered

You are a fisherman

My weather lets you know when and when not to wait

Your hook's inside the bait I'm wary but I swallow

You are a messenger you bring me all the news

The kind that never lies it's written in my eyes

You beckon and it follows I get to be guilty I

You are a singer too carry me like a tune

Like a newborn child I'm wrapped up for a while

You're swaying like a hobo you are a circus clown

I've never laughed before beneath your canopy

Oh say a prayer for me I want this in a photo

So be a photographer I'm dancing naked now across the maple floor

Above the lion's roar your pictures will protect me

You must be a scientist by now with rumpled midnight hair

You've studied every pore and every follicle

Of my bewildered body I get to be guilty I

Yours is a different light I like my face that way

The canvas of my skin serene and strange but true