Decemberists Gymnast High Above The Ground Lyrics

Gymnast High Above The Ground Lyrics

The gymnast, high above the ground

Limbers up and falls, tender down

Ankles splayed and all tied

The gymnast long has arrived



Lazy, your long sister lays

Waiting out this long light brigade

Prayed for snow a long time

Lazy, it long has arrived



Through the tarlatan holes

You've been slipping, been slipping away

And the weather will hold

It's been ever so, ever so gray



And here, as we're coming down

We're sounding out

It's a terrible, terrible tide

As it lights upon your eye



But there on the motorway, reeks of marmalade

It's a chemical, chemical kind

As it lights upon your eye

Lights upon your eye



The bosun calls upon the quay

Compass gone, he long has lost his way

To lighthouse shine, to calm tide

The bosun long has arrived



Through the tarlatan holes

You've been slipping, been slipping away

And the weather will hold

It's been ever so, ever so gray



But here as we're coming down

We're sounding out

It's a terrible, terrible tide

As it lights upon your eye



But there on the motorway, reeks of marmalade

It's a chemical, chemical kind

As it lights upon your eye

Lights upon your eye



April marches on

April marches on

April marches on

April marches on