Big Thief - Promise is a Pendulum (Official Audio)

Big Thief - Promise is a Pendulum (Official Audio)

Lyrics:

I could never build the ether

Or the grass overgrown

Could never build the river

With a mouthful of foam

I could never build the winter

With her cold tears of glitter

I’ve been listening to the red oak

The acorn she cries

Listening to the white birch

The paper she dries

I’ve been listening to the frogs joke

Listening to the firesmoke

I can never tell you now

What I had often said before

Because promise is a pendulum

Just swinging at the door

And I’m not saying I’m not jealous

Or scared anymoreI’m just saying

I could never build a rainbow

Or any kind of flower

Could never make a sparrow

Or a meteor shower

Could never build an earthworm

Never make the earth turn

I’ve been listening to the laughing

Of the fox down the trail

Clasping to the listening of the moss to the snail

The shimmer of the beech leaves

As the wind does a big sneeze

I could never tell you now

What I had often said before

Because promise is a pendulum

Just swinging at the door

And I’m not saying I’m not jealous

Or scared anymoreI’m just saying

I could never build the shadow

Between your cheek and your eye

Could never make a freckle or the warm breath you sigh

The canopy of lashes

With the softness of ashes

I’ve been listening to the memory

The way that it was

Listening to the echo of whys and because

Listening to the echo

Telling me to let go

I could never tell you now

What I had often said before

Because promise is a pendulum

Just hanging at the door

And I’m not saying I’m not jealous

Or scared anymore

I’m just saying, saying