Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN , by - La Dispute. Release date: 21.03.2019
Song language: English
IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN |
| Dream if you want for me to carry on |
| If you could break it all down for me |
| I could believe you |
| Dream if you want for me to carry on |
| If you could break it all down for me |
| I remember |
| You and I in Northern Michigan |
| The color in between the leaves |
| Black tourmaline, blue-green |
| Like some bioluminescent thing |
| Come up from the black of the sea |
| The purl of the breeze |
| Whispering |
| I remember |
| How you stood at the water’s edge |
| While I was at the line of the trees |
| And you waded out patiently down |
| Ever-darkening your step |
| The shadows grew around your feet |
| Your ankles and knees |
| I remember trembling |
| Nights you tunneled inward |
| Anxious unto panic |
| I was that watcher on the ridge |
| Standing on the dune edge faced west |
| And the night sloped down before me |
| Like a challenge from myth |
| But I never moved an inch |
| Backlit by the campfire blazing |
| Heaving in a harsh spring wind |
| Sparks thrown into the low branches to fade |
| While you floated into water like a ghost ship |
| Sinking |
| Days we breezed through everything |
| Laughed through whole mornings at home |
| And out warm nights running from sleep |
| Days like good dreams always familiar, surreal |
| The sun in the trees bleeds marigold and wine |
| Life |
| All of its languages here |
| Love spoke in tongues |
| Loudly or hushed |
| Too much of you at once is just enough at all times |
| My life in the light of you |
| I remember everything |
| Dream if you want for me to carry on |
| You could be like a body in the sea |
| You could go slowly sink on into nothingness |
| Or you could float like a lantern in a breeze |
| You could freeze out of focus on a movie screen |
| Film careening from the reel |
| Or you could stay for an ovation |
| When the credits roll |
| Focused face right in the center of the frame |
| You never know |
| I heard the sound of my feet |
| Before I felt them pound sand |
| I heard only my own hard heartbeat in my head |
| There was no sound |
| I saw the water to your knees |
| Then to your neck |
| Above your head |
| I swore you’d drowned |
| I watched you swim out |
| I only watched you wade in and panicked when I lost you |
| Sprinting now downward to find you back |
| As if you even needed me or asked |
| Worry always myself too much for your old sadness |
| Worry until I panic |
| Tumble to the open shoreline |
| Kept running toward water alone |
| The waves against my chest deafening |
| Or only your soft laughter in me |