Steamboat - Adrianne Lenker

Well I’m just a stranger

I’m only a walker

I guess I am human

But sometimes I feel

Like I’m only a ghost

Like I’m only a wall

And if you come around honey

I’ll probably just follow you home cuz it’s all that I know how to do

I was born by a body

I’ll die by one too

and places are nothing if they ain’t got you

and one day I’ma be a steamboat baby

one day I can be your freight train lady

roll down the river, the miles won’t phase me

Oh I wish I was better at being alone

Still every night I call you on the phone

Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

Well I’ve been arranging each of my movements

and all of my gestures and trying to fool myself into thinkin that everything

is small

that nothing has reason

I woke up crying a convulision of honesty brought me to life

when I thought I was gone

but I can’t put a light in the mouth of a song

and one day I’ma be a steamboat baby

one day I can be your freight train lady

I roll down the river, and the miles won’t phase me

Oh I wish I was better at being alone

Still every night I call you on the phone

Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones

Oh I wish I was more than my skin and my bones