La Dispute - IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN Lyrics

Dream if you want for me to carry on
If you could break it all down for me
I could believe you
Dream if you want for me to carry on
If you could break it all down for me
I remember you and I, Northern Michigan
The color in between the leaves
Black tourmaline, blue-green
Like some bioluminescent thing
Come up from the black of the sea
The pearl of the breeze
Whispering I remember how you stood at the water's edge
While I was at the line of the trees
And you waited out patiently down
Never darkening your step
The shadows grew around your feet
Your ankles and knees
I remember trembling

Nights you tell them were anxious in a panic
I was that watcher on the ridge
Standing on dune edge face west
And the night slope down before me like a challenge from myth
But, I never moved an inch
Backlit by the camp fire blazing
Heaving in a harsh spring wind
Sparks thrown into the low branches
To fade or to float into the water like a ghost ship, sinking
Days we'd breeze through everything
Laughter full mornings at home and out warm nights running from sleep
Days like good dreams
Always familiar, surreal
The sun and the trees bleeds marigold and wine, life
All of its languages here
Love spoke in tongues, loudly or hushed
Too much of you at once is just enough at all times
My life in the light of you
I remember everything

Dream if you want for me to carry on
You could be like a body in the sea
You could go and slowly sink on and do nothingness so you could flow
Like a lantern in the breeze, you could freeze
Not a focus on a movie screen
Fell careening from the reel
Where you could stay afront and fishing when credits role
Focus face
Right in the center of the frame
You never know

I hear the sound of my feet before I felt them pound sand
I heard only my own heart
Heartbeat in my head
There is no sound
I saw the water to her knees
Then to your neck
Above your head
I swore you drown
I watched you swim out
I only watched you, waited, and panicked when I lost you
Sprinting now downward to find you back as if you even needed me or asked
Or are you always myself too much for your old sadness
Worry until I panic
Tumble to the open shoreline
Kept running toward water alone
The waves against my chest deafening are only your soft laughter in me