This Close To You - Joe Henry

I’ll have to be

As brave as you

With no star to guide us

Blazing above;

And no moonshiner’s river

To carry us through

And no way to speak

When there aren’t words enough

Fair enough

You asked me for nothing

Fair enough

All you told me was true

I called down the flood

And I’m falling forever

But I was this close to you

This close to you

It rained for a week

And I kept my head down

Trying to think what

You reminded me of:

A fire that hat ravaged

An Ohio town

And spooked me at noon

With my headlights still on

Fair enough

You asked me for nothing

Fair enough

All you told me was true

I called down the flood

And I’m falling forever

But I was this close to you

This close to you

Well sometime at night

I pretended to be sleeping

Just to hear what it is

That you say

When you talk to yourself

And the darkness is keeping

The hateful morning

A goodnight away

If I was much younger

I might just forget it

If love was the habit of

Some borrowed room;

But it’s all that I have

And I’m doomed to regret it

If I can’t forgive

Myself or you soon

Fair enough

You asked me for nothing

Fair enough

All you told me was true

I called down the flood

And I’m falling forever

But I was this close to you

This close to you