Desdemona - The Alternate Routes, Patty Griffin

Desdemona, help yourself

I hear you mourning at the dawn

Desdemona, ask which side

Of all this lying are you on

Did you build yourself a runway?

Did you tell yourself tomorrow?

Did you cry?

And are you dressed in hesitation

When you tell yourself that everything’s alright?

Cause I see a distance in your smile

And what your Mondays have become

Could be the rest of your life

Desdemona, you’re not dead yet

No it’s not wrong

If you want everything in life under the sun

Under the sun

Desdemona, you’re in love

Do not forget about yourself

Desdemona, bring the people

That you love inside your hell

Cause you are younger in the eyes of those who see you

Please forget about the time

Throw yourself out on these brave and empty branches

In the winter waiting high

Everybody’s out there killing time

But I will be damned to lets you stand here killing mine

Don’t you know we’re gonna change a whole world the day

We stop waiting on the world to change

Desdemona, we are not so very different

Do you see?

At the moment braver still

Than what our minds let us believe

Even the walls the will surround you

Somehow steady by your very own hands

I don’t know just how to change you

All I know is how to tell you that you can

Cause I’ll never tell you how to live

But you keep on telling me

That’s just the way it is

Desdemona more then anything I know

Never tell yourself that’s just the way it goes

I know it goes

But what do I know