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The Cellar Song

from I by Catherine and the Owl

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I held a rock but he had a hammer,
For you,

I walked a mile but he moved a mountain,
For you and just for you,
My lover for you,

I tried to walk away, I tried,
I tried to walk away, I tried to run,
But everything is falling now,
The leaves, they too are crawling now,
It’s already begun,

They taste the fire and call it the brimstone,
They let me go, but they won’t let me go home,
I miss you,

I find myself alone again,
And somehow I see that I am still,
Walking down that road again,
As motions sweet, unfold again,
A fickle fan, a fading play,
Perches on that aching way,
As simple, subtle, sinful lies,
Curl into my broken mind,

And blood may boil and bones my break,
But still your heart I can’t forsake,
Forget or even brush aside,
Let it be known, only that I was here,

I beseech you, my only fool,
That you, my friend will not be cruel,
And that somehow you will stand to rule,
Against duties’ hand and heaven’s tool,

What say you?

I held a map and he held the sextant,
Borders born and tears were wiped away,
Or so they say, those bloody few,

I held the world but he held a mirror,
He held a girl and I saw things much clearer,
I died to try and defy the way things were made.

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from I, released August 5, 2008

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