The Alternate Routes

Desdemona (Featuring Patty Griffin)

The Alternate Routes


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