Capo: 5th fret


[Intro]
  


[Chorus]
       
Incomprehensib

le
Let me be
       
Incomprehensib

le
Let me be


[Verse]

Highway 17, co

tton candy rai

n

Driving with m

y lover, we mi

ssed our plane
      
So we added on

 the hours to 

see the lupine

 flowers

Way out past t

he border, we 

blew through T

hunder Bay
    
The pine trees

 are narrow, a

 billion broke

n arrows
    
The ravens and

 the crows, ro

bins and the s

parrows

All across Ont

ario, just sta

tic on the ste

reo
    
And swimming i

n the lake, Ol

d Woman Bay

Traveling with

 some stuff I 

left when I wa

s a kid

Mr. Bear and t

he wooden box 

I hid

Full of broken

 gadgets that 

don't mean not

hing now
    
The only thing

 I'll keep are

 the letters a

nd the photogr

aphs
   
In two days it

's my birthday

 and I'll be 3

3
    
But that doesn

't really matt

er next to ete

rnity
    
And I like a d

ouble number, 

and I like an 

odd one too
    
And everything

 I see from no

w on will be s

omething new


   


[Verse 2]
     
"I'm afraid of

 getting older

", that's what

 I learned to 

say
      
'Cause society

 has given me 

the words to t

hink that way
    
The message sp

ins and spiral

s, "Don't get 

saggy, don't g

et grey"
        
But the soft a

nd lovely silv

ers are now fa

lling on my sh

oulder
   
My mother and 

my grandma, my

 great-grandmo

ther too
     
They wrinkle l

ike the river,

 sweeten like 

the dew
       
And as silver 

as the rainbow

 scales that s

himmer purple 

blue
        
How can beauty

 that is livin

g be anything 

but true?
       
So let gravity

 be my sculpto

r, let the win

d do my hair
       
Let me dance i

n front of peo

ple without a 

care
       
Let me be nake

d alone with n

obody there
      
Or with mismat

ched socks and

 shoes and stu

ff stuffed in 

my underwear


[Outro]
       
Incomprehensib

le
Let me be
       
Incomprehensib

le
Let me be