All Of It Was Music - Over the Rhine

The night was bending in a grin

As streetlight shadows tattooed skin

Whatever we were tangled in

All of it was music

The bed sheets were our whitest flag

The war became a game of tag

We surrendered all we had

And all we had was music

The humming of the window unit

The street noise often sang right through it

A drunken song somehow we knew that

Even it was music

The newness of uncovered skin

Your messy hair your goofy grin

Your shattered places deep within

All of it was music

To those I’ve wronged, please forgive me

I hope this song helps you, believe me

The holding on the letting go

It all gets buried soft and low

But even then a song might grow

All of it was music

We left the city far behind

We traveled light, we traveled blind

With no idea what we’d find

Or whether we could use it

The rolling fields were lined by trees

Wild flowers brought us to our knees

The poison ivy thick as thieves—

We swung an ax to bruise it

A place where we could rest awhile

Where hummingbirds could thrum for miles

And we could leave the edges wild

And let birds sing through us

Fires where all our sparks could scatter

Midnight stars could drop their ladders

I’m not sure any of it matters

But all of it was music

To those I’ve wronged, please forgive me

I hope this song helps you, believe me

The holding on the letting go

It all get buried soft and low

Don’t ask me how but I still know

All of it was music

To those I’ve wronged, please forgive me

I hope this song helps you, believe me

This world so full of joy and pain

Was more than one heart could contain

We let it spill and flood the plain

All of it was music