Wend your way through me With a call from my father And the fear you leave Set me wandering In the blush of the morning With a weight to keep Some thought of longing, waiting for the sun You can keep and shelter If I could have known Would I bend? To get you back from the side of my head, and I never thought to wonder if I'd thank god for all of this fiction Thank god you said whatever's on your mind Were you more to me Than the lake, and the harbor And the tallest trees? The thought we wouldn't speak Spools on the table And slips beneath Some thought of longing, waiting for the sun You can keep and shelter If I could have known Would I bend? To get you back from the side of my head, and I never thought to wonder if I'd thank god that this is my fiction And thank god you said whatever's on your mind Thank god you said whatever's on your mind The Lake bowed down