Download mp3 - You disappear : Here Comes Everybody
Beyond
the beach, out to sea,
I look for you without success.
Across the bridge, down the wide rail,
deep into wood, I find some signs--undecipherable.
You disappear and you never come back.
Your magic tricks always fool me.
Into the storm, (you’re so far away)
after the flood, (you’ve lost us again)
I dig for you (listen to the trains)
in a shallow grave. (listen)
Under the rain, (think of the flood)
steeped in mud, (I can never come home)
I pull you up (it’s only memory)
into my trembling arms.
You disappear and you never come back.
Your magic tricks always fool me.
Beyond the beach, (under the lake)
out to sea, (you know we’re alive)
I look for you (would you recognize me?)
without success. (would you recognize me?)
Across the bridge, (I’m dreaming of this)
down the wide rail, (say goodbye)
deep into wood, I find some signs (goodbye)
undecipherable.
“No one watching this woman smear her initials in the steam on her water glass
with her first finger, or slip cellophane packets of oyster crackers into her
handbag for the sea gulls, could know how her thoughts are thronged by our
absence, or know how she does not watch, does not listen, does not wait, does
not hope, and always for me and Sylvie.”
--Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
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