When I Was Five letra

When I Was Five :
If life were like a mountain, did you, did you not fall?
I have missed you since I was five.
And I don't recall your eyes
but your hands I do recall,
and I know how you smelt when you were alive.

You died.
Like we're all gonna go someday.
You died.
I was five and I wish you'd stayed.

They say you crossed a river to touch God's hand
but I did not understand where he lived.
So I tried to write him letters - letters of demand,
saying "She's my sister - back you give her"

You died.
Like we're all gonna go someday.
You died.
I was here and you went away.

I didn't see you die, I didn't see your casket.
Don't remember if I cried, but I never quite got past it.
You're fragile like a bee, and skinny as a steeple,
and all these memories - are they mine or other peoples?

When you died
Like we're all gonna go someday,
I was five and I thought I could make you stay.

Clare Bowditch And The Feeding Set - Letras

• Autumn Bone
• Between The Tea And The Toast
• Big Man
• Buddy
• Divorcee By 23
• Hair That Red
• Homage To My Dad And The ABC
• Human Being
• I Am Not Allowed
• I Love The Way You Talk
• I Thought You Were God
• Just Might Do
• Lips Like Oranges
• Little Black Cave
• Little Self Centred Queen
• Midnight Bird
• Monday Comes
• Ms. Unavailability (Oh! Temptation)
• Old Joelene
• On This Side
• Peccadilloes
• People Like You, People Like Me
• Starry Picking Night
• Strange Questions
• That Wouldn't Be So Good
• The Thing About Grief
• This Bastard Disease
• When I Was Five
• When The Lights Went Down
• Which Way To Go
• Who Knows Who?
• Winding Up
• Yes I Miss You Like The Rain
• You Can Stay The Night
• You Look So Good
• Your Other Hand