Conjectures Of A Guilty Bystander Lyrics - Over The Rhine

You are a gardener 

You cultivate my soul 

You water thirsty vines 

That snake along my spine 

In case I forget to shiver 

You are a carpenter 

You build the scaffolding 

Replace the windowpane 

I see the sky again 

As if I've been delivered 

You are a fisherman 

My weather lets you know 

When and when not to wait 

Your hook's inside the bait 

I'm wary but I swallow 

You are a messenger 

You bring me all the news 

The kind that never lies 

It's written in my eyes 

You beckon and it follows 

I get to be guilty I 

You are a singer too 

Carry me like a tune 

I'm like a newborn child 

I'm wrapped up for a while 

You're swaying like a hobo 

You are a circus clown 

I've never laughed before 

Beneath your canopy 

Oh say a prayer for me 

I want this in a photo 

So be a photographer 

I'm dancing naked now 

Across the maple floor 

Above the lion's roar 

Your pictures will protect me 

You must be a scientist by now 

With rumpled midnight hair 

You're studied ever pore 

And every follicle 

Of my bewildered body 

I get to be guilty I