Paper Hanger Lyrics

Paper Hanger lyrics

Not one motion of her gesture could I forget



The prettiest bag lady I ever met



Pushing her cart in the rain



Then gathering plastic and glass



She watched the day pass



Not hour by hour



But pain by pain



If I was a basket filled with holes



Then she was the sand I tried to hold



And ran out behind me



As I swung with some invisible hands







I stopped believing, you start to move



She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine



I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed



And you can pour us out and we won't mind







I was dead, then alive



She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine



You can pour us out, we won't mind



A scratch around the mouth of the glass



My life is no longer mine







If you're still looking for a blanket



Sweetie, I'm sorry, I'm no sort of fabric



But if you need a tailor



Then take your torn shirt, and stumble up my stairs



And mumble your pitiful prayers



And in your tangled night's sleep, our midnight needles go to work



Until all comfort and fear flows in one river



Down on the shelf by the mirror where you see yourself whole



And it makes you shiver







I stopped believing, you start to move



She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine



I stopped my leaving and the better man bloomed



And you can pour us out and we won't mind







I was dead, then alive



She was like wine turned to water and turned back to wine



You can pour us out, we won't mind



A scratch around the mouth of the glass



My life is no longer mine







Our lives our not our own 



Even the wind lays still



All I felt was fire and cold



And movement, movement



If they ask you for a sign of the Father



Tell them it's movement, movement and repose