Alysia Harris - Depth Over Distance lyrics

[Bridget Barkan] Depth over distance every time, my dear This tree of ours will grow tall in the woods But it's the roots that will bind us here To the ground Depth over distance is all I ask of you I may be foolish to fall as I do Still, it's the strength In the blindness you feel If you're coming, too If you're coming, too [Alysia Harris] My nail beds are still painted eggplant for you The eggs on your plate are hard scrambled Morning, my time comes a bit too early for your blind eyes, for your capable heart So I snuck over the sun bu*tered mountains Barely spotted your town of 9000 Entered your storied home and kicked off the snow Let your Old English Mastiff's, all 240 pounds, bark in my face lick my black nylons from knee to thigh The marble kitchen permanently smelled of cilantro. And your hands were huge With one thumb nail for strumming Flamenco, baby, I could've danced for you all night Feet like pearls aglow in the lights of your lavender candle There was the labor of music coming from your room When you locked us in When you looked at me like my first name was “Now” My body instantly visible and pliable We were naked and raw and it didn't feel wrong Our hips like a tide There was a sea beneath us Carrying the sort of love nonsense we spelled on sheets, cleft notes and time signatures and treble, treble, treble The first night, you weren't supposed to undress me, but you did I couldn't resist either Just like, just like the first time I grabbed your hand ten minutes after meeting you It was like this right here, this artist, this Autistic genius, this flawed beauty, this man who plants lilacs and drinks vinegar in the morning so it wasn't surprising how quickly it all went sour. You wouldn't draw me when I asked you to. Instead you inappropriately used the nib of your calligraphy pen to split boxes To sculpt the underside of silence And when you said my name over a bowl of cooling soup it lost all its definition. I knew you were in love with a vision, just not the woman attached I was afraid to say the wrong thing To speak strongly Our last night together, you spilled your ink on the page I rushed to fill the space with words We were too holy to bathe If for an instant the truth is absurd then Amen to it, and amen to us I didn't care whether you were white and skinny Whether you lived in Oregon or not Hell, I wanted you. Didn't need a reason, didn't to need to make it rhyme All I needed was a one way heart And a west coast flight And I'm not asking you to change your mind Just, just think about the depth when you remember the distance. How 3000 miles is not longer than the moments spent between us. [Bridget Barkan] Hold on, wait until that love Breaks from the arms of the Lord Hold on, though we may be too young to know this, right or wrong [Alysia Harris] Our next fight came quick on the heels of my return. You didn't call to say you missed me. You didn't call to say you cared. And just like that, we were over. Easy. I half laughed. Half cried. Didn't know if it was the jet lag or if I had just gotten used to sleeping in late and calling you mine. But the whole time, your bed was low and flat Scarcely six inches off the ground At any point, I could've stood to my feet And walked away. [Bridget Barklan] Depth over distance every time, my dear And everybody's back here acting like a storm But still, there's things i'd do for you, my darling I'd go blind for you If you let it grow sometimes If you just let it grow Let it grow Let it grow Let it grow, sometimes Let it grow Let it grow Let it grow, sometimes Hold on, wait until that love Breaks from the arms of the Lord Hold on, though we may be too young to know this, right or wrong