[Verse 1] White stone steps in the afternoon Lake Erie breathing blue Little brown wings on the concrete wall Like nerves I can’t undo A blackbird with a red-lit shoulder Keeps his balance on a limb And I am trying not to picture The room they’re walking in [Verse 2] There’s a sailboat on the water Taking orders from the breeze I envy how it drifts away Without begging to be seen The path bends off through summer grass The sky stays clean and bright And I keep telling my own heartbeat Not everything’s a fight [Chorus] So let the lake be wide enough To hold what I can’t say Let the wind go where it wants to go And not carry me away I came here chasing quiet From a sky that won’t talk back I’m sitting on the Solstice Steps And the lake does not ask [Verse 3] Somewhere there’s a rented room For an evening, not a night Somewhere love is drawing lines That cut across my life And I am more than what I’m missing More than what I lack But truth can land like gravel On a breaking back [Verse 4] The sun has its northern limit Then it slowly turns around Even fire knows the border Where it has to settle down Maybe peace is not forgiveness Maybe peace is just this stone Holding me above the water While I learn to sit alone [Chorus] So let the lake be wide enough To hold what I can’t say Let the wind go where it wants to go And not carry me away I came here chasing quiet From a sky that won’t talk back I’m sitting on the Solstice Steps And the lake does not ask [Bridge] I don’t need the waves to answer I don’t need the gulls to care I just need one honest minute Where I’m hurt and still here Where the ache can have its weather Where the truth can have its room Where the world keeps turning blue Without asking me to bloom [Final Chorus] Let the lake be wide enough To hold what I can’t say Let the wind go where it wants to go But don’t carry me away I came here chasing quiet From a sky that won’t talk back I’m sitting on the Solstice Steps With my hands open in my lap And if love has crossed my shoreline If the sun has reached its track I will sit here till I’m breathing And the lake does not ask [Outro] White stone steps Blue water glass I am still here The lake does not ask
