Aaron Gerber

It takes a midnight to get to a morning
It takes time to put ducks in a row
Kick off the covers, uncover your arm
Hold it to my ear like a phone

When the spring will believe in this leaving
And the leaves will spring up and blah blah
You said, oh my god I love you and how
Oh did I say that out loud
I don’t want my ears to burn

When the rain came, it sounded like breathing
All banana peels and I couldn’t fall
Hold the phone ‘till the call

It’s the contract of canyons and mountains
White mountains that leave you alone
Leave you run down with soap in your eye
To quietly rise like a cranefly
From here on out I’m on my own

I’m a moisture stain on the ceiling
I’m a lattice clinging to dust
I’m settling onto your face
And I know full well you’ll brush me away
And I’ll become water and rust

When the wood smoke finally found us
Did we really smell it at all?
Hold the phone ‘till the call

Running easy in barely there harness
Hold it close and then leet it all fall
Hold the phone ‘till the call

No matter when I wake up, the day always is the same length
I try to wake with the dawn but still the dark comes just as fast

If I’m going to make it across I only want to swim once
I’ll be a dolphin, a tern too excited to land
And I’m learning shit on the way and I won’t until it’s over
And no way to tell anyone anyway.

No matter how I lie down the pillow always makes the same crease
I try to move it around and sleep so my hair won’t get out of place
If the routines will fail I’m worried that I will fail as well
It’s a gigantic arc that brings the sun back to the tree tops.

It’s a shame that you can’t go back to where you left offlike an old tape in a tape deck
And it feels like a sauna when you have the heat up and the goose down
And the sunlight on the window ledge

If I’m going to make it across I only want to swim once
I’ll be a dolphin, a tern to excited to land
I hope at the end of the day I’ll have the courage
And something important and comforting to say

Oh my word is it enough?
All my words are they enough?
And I hope that they’re enough
And I hope I’ve done enough

Take a breath and brush it off
Brush your teeth and sort your socks
Sort of lear against the rock
If the rocking chair won’t stop

Oh my God I’m giving up
All my eggs in different cups
All my fears were not for not
All my ears have heard a lot

Hey don’t sweat the little stuff
There but for the grace of us
Do we leave the world untouched
You’ve touched me and that’s enough

It's a lot like
(You)
riding a bike
(You feel the same as before)
Beneath the cold ash, and gust(?) of air
(Your last coal is still warm)
Give it a little gust.
Shut your eyes for the dust,
Close the door.

You smell like old clothes.
(Like old clothes)
I used to know,
(But haven't worn in a while)
A clover pressed between
(Between)
Two chapters
And a cliff-hanging moment(?)
Before we do that again,
Gonna have to take 10
and get some air.

All that I need is, to steadily breathe in
And let it out slowly
All that I need is, to steadily breathe in
And let it out slowly

And if the dust bursts all over the wind
(I'm blown like a shy kiss)
And it's no way to make a fist
(You're gonna break your hand like this)
I'm waking up young with you
Everything I do's new and ???

And our faith has gone,
(Our faith has gone)
darn' it again
(That's the light from the tower clock)
These are the clouds, are
we racing made?
(Our love was written in white chalk)
Start off sprinting,
Turn it into jogging
And then when to walk?

All that I need is, to steadily breathe in
And let it out slowly
All that I need is, to steadily breathe in
And let it out slowly
All that I need is, to steadily breathe in
And let it out slowly
All that I need is, to steadily breathe in
And let it out slowly