I Hold Nothing - Mount Eerie

Your love

Swells and pounds me

I know nothing now that I know you

My face goes blank

My eyes go open gates

And the world can go (in them)

And the world can stay and make us wealthy

And take away

So, I hold nothing

Now that I hold nothing (now that I hold you)

There’s no place to use our money where we live

The generous world suggests generous living

So we lay under low wide branches

Of the oldest tree on the dune, in the hay

Where we will stay for so long

That the careful birds will relax

And make black nests in your black hair

And walk around beneath my still feet

And we will only notice the play of the world for a moment

And let it roll on, the way the world rolls on

We will only notice the world for a moment

And let it roll on, the way the world rolls on

The world, for a moment, and let it roll on

The way the world rolls on

Through open gates

And we will only notice the play of the world

(that long moss is growing on us)

(that the wind has rewritten us)

(the give and take not stopping ever)

For only a moment

In a generous way:

I give long walks to the dogs (In a generous way, I)

I put commas and periods in songs

I give closed eyes to the day

I give peace to the long decay

(we do not need to fear dying)