Lighthouse Keeper

from Who We Are, What We Have Done by Jessi Robertson

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We talk oceans into being between us
with stinging words that taste of salt and rust
then you climb the winding stair, up to the mirror
watch your breath form a mist and let it clear
snuff out the little flame and leave me in the dark
oh lighthouse keeper

There's nothing to guide me, when you're out of reach
but why should you worry when you're safe on the beach
I threw a line out to the shore
but you severed the cord
oh lighthouse keeper

I am a vessel on the sand, stranded and dry
said you can't give me what I need, but you didn't try
I will track my sightless path across the fathomless span
I will make my way alone just to prove that I can
keep your little flame, and leave me in the dark
oh lighthouse keeper

There's nothing to guide me, when you're out of reach
but why should you worry when you're safe on the beach
I threw a line out to the shore
but you severed the cord
oh lighthouse keeper

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from Who We Are, What We Have Done, released July 8, 2008

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Jessi Robertson Nashville, Tennessee

Jessi Robertson is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter whose work navigates the boundaries between reality and imagination, and lays bare her own emotional truths.

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