Oskar's Drum - Anyone But Yourself lyrics

You ran into the water to turn into a whale But the sea did not change you Spat you out onto the shale You ran into a cornfield To hide inside its maize House your cathedral of suffering In the yellow smiling sway Why be anyone but yourself Lucy? Why be anyone but yourself You ran into the forest To cling to your favourite tree Tried to wind yourself around them Ivy tendril to tender leaf But the tree will not change you, no It will not take your spoor You wither and flounder A twisted shoot on the forest floor Why be anyone but yourself Lucy? Why be anyone but yourself Your perfect body is not welcomed In this house that you call home So come here and rest with me In these sheets that I have sown Don't lose faith in the water Lucy Don't lose yourself in the sea Don't lose faith in the forest Don't lose your life in the trees I cannot believe that you would be anyone but yourself In these fields But yourself