We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Ways To Love

from The Cost Of Living by Jason Webley

/

lyrics

Our mother made us into swimmers.
She threw her babes into this river,
Full of mud and dense with weeds,
A century of odd debris,
We learned to fight and learned to love our
Breaths were short, we shared them with our brothers.

We learned new games under the covers,
How to laugh and how to grieve,
We learned to trust, we learned to leave.

We found this water's deeper than we
Guessed we had learned enough ways to love,
Still I don't know mother who we are.

Our minds were sharp, our bodies burning.
We gave ourselves over to learning,
How to break and how to give,
Betrayal taught us to forgive,
We stretched and soaked up everything they
Taught us well, we were first in our classes.

We learned to see through many glasses,
How to sink and how to fly,
We learned to watch each other die.

My God, this course is harder than we
Thought we had learned enough ways to love,
Still I don't know mother where we are.

We thought we were walking the way to love.
Do we have time to take a nap?
The house is on fire, the sky is falling.
Baby get back. Get back.
This is your mother calling.

credits

from The Cost Of Living, released October 11, 2007

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jason Webley Seattle

contact / help

Contact Jason Webley

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Jason Webley recommends:

If you like Jason Webley, you may also like: