Текст песни: No Carpenter + перевод

Out in your backyard, ‘bout a month before this flood

We stumbled on things tossed away, sunk and defunct in the mud

You took a little box: burned, or caked with grime

Didn’t know what to put it in to make it peel, reveal its undershine

Or know what to put in it, what it could safely hold

My best friend, for you, I am trying to get everything said and told

To say:

Though your flare from the shore fills the ocean with shadows

I am too fixed on the moon to climb away clear of the tide

Far nearer than that sky your eyes are plainly led

Where even lines in parallel converge somewhere up ahead

Am I walking too quick (weighed by no carpenter’s load)?

I can’t build a home, though I can pave a road

Late in the rainy season, I wandered back to where you dug in your heels

And asked for my plans for our frame and foundation — as if I knew

Though I didn’t tell you anything untrue, still, I am saying I lied

Here there is a box, hollow on the floor

My fierce revelation, I’m trying to want what I wanted before

There’s a roof over you, there’s nothing of mine in your drawer

And I promise I’m glad for the light that shines under your door

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