Aaron Weiss
Aaron Weiss is the lead vocalist and lyricist for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based band mewithoutYou.
My life's a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return.
A speckled bird, humbly inspired,
Ran across the road when it could have flown,
And it made me smile.
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.
She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.
What new mystery is this?
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.
I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.
When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another
The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!
The Donkey whispered in His ear:
"Child, in thirty-some-odd years,
You'll ride someone that looks like me (untriumphantly)."
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.
But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.
If you look out and see a trace
Of dark red that used to be my face,
In the clarity of His grace:
Remember me.
The Son of the widow
You raised from the dead...
Where did His soul go
When He died again?
Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?
In darkness a light shines on you and on me.
As we melt let's make no noise
Oh, the profanation of our love
To tell the world our passing joys!
And so it goes, it's the Devil I suppose
But it doesn't matter much to me.
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead!
What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?
The sun and moon are my Father's eyes.