Every Little Bit Of It Lyrics - A Permeable Life - Carrie Newcomer

Every Little Bit Of It -- Song (by Carrie Newcomer) 

Just beyond my sight, something that I cannot see 

I've been circling around a thought that's been circling round me 

Like the vapor of a song that is just out of ear shot 

I thought I knew the question, but I guess not 

There it is just below the surface of things 

In a flash of blue, and the turning of wings 

I drain the glass, I drink it down, every moment of this 

Every little bit of it. 

I swam against the tide, I tripped on my own pride 

So I'll try again today, to get out of my own way 

The face was always in the stone, said Michelangelo 

You just have to chip and clear, to see what is already there 

There it is just below the surface of things 

In a flash of blue, and the turning of wings 

I drain the glass, I drink it down, every moment of this 

Every little bit of it. 

There it is in the apple of every Newton notion 

There it is in the scar healed over what was broken 

In the branches, in the whispering 

In the silence and the sighs 

And the curious promise of limited time 

It's true although it's hard 

A shadow glides over the ridge 

And one fast beating heart 

Tries with all its might to live 

And we sense, but can't describe 

From the corner of our eye 

Something nameless and abiding 

And so we keep transcribing 

There it is just below the surface of things 

In a flash of blue, and the turning of wings 

I drain the glass, drink it down, every moment of this 

Every little bit of it, every little bit.