Aaron Weiss
Aaron Weiss is the lead vocalist and lyricist for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based band mewithoutYou.
I was dead then alive,
She was like wine turned to water then turned back to wine;
You can pour us out, we won't mind,
As scratch around the mouth of the glass, "My life is no longer mine."
You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire?
To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?
The sun and moon are my Father's eyes.
What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
And so it goes, it's the Devil I suppose
But it doesn't matter much to me.
As we melt let's make no noise
Oh, the profanation of our love
To tell the world our passing joys!
In darkness a light shines on you and on me.
Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?
The Son of the widow
You raised from the dead...
Where did His soul go
When He died again?
A speckled bird, humbly inspired,
Ran across the road when it could have flown,
And it made me smile.
But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.
And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see,
Like a thick fog...
If there was no way into God,
I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.
The Donkey whispered in His ear:
"Child, in thirty-some-odd years,
You'll ride someone that looks like me (untriumphantly)."
When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!
I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
And on that day, nothing clever to say.
What new mystery is this?
She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.
Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side,
I'll spare you my goodbyes:
The truth belongs to God,
The mistakes were mine.