Lyrics What? - Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron, Fred Squire

What?

When I was sturdier I’d talk about how
«Certainly we all will die.
We will eat shadows, we will bury candles.
Die.»
When I was sturdier I thought,
«So what?
I am forever mountainous!»
I bravely said, «No death of any kind
could matter to my mountain mind.
Come years, Come surging, I am tall!»
When I was «sturdier"I was secretly scared,
and the fear was blinding.
As you can see, I am no rock.
As you can see, through mountain wind,
What I actually am is thinning clouds.