Ian Metzger - Small Minute Given Up lyrics

Well I Lowered the flag and broke in my back Gave up singing to hum And went away to the forest to fall Where everything's called to be born again Oh, the autumn leaves, saw them sweep the sky For a holy unsentimental smile Thought that mother nature had smiled on me Come to find out she's always showing her teeth Cut from the low lands, back to the old plan Well I'm Scattered and close, and heavily dosed By my ego so much I saw again, how you can steady your hand But a shadow still lands on anything you touch All the autumn leaves don't shake at all Once they give up on the branch they hold Yeah there's nothing wrong with a quiver I guess Pretty soon you're gonna have to get on with it Off with the old skin, back to the medicine Late small minutes that I haven't given up Yeah you cut from the low lands, back to the old plan Spend my minutes while I can just telling you That if your watching me all night almost fall My late small minutes that I haven't given up