In A Sweater, Poorly Knit Lyrics - Singles - Me Without You

In a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile 

Little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile 

A fumbling reply, an awkward, rigid laugh 

And I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft 

Your flavor in my mind's back and forth between 

Sweeter than any wine, as bitter as mustard greens 

And it's light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickel bread 

The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead 

Go plow some other field and try and forget my name 

See what harvest yields and supposing I'd do the same 

I planted rows of peas, but the first week of July 

They should have come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high 

Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns 

And boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars 

And the books are overdue and the goats are underfed 

The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead 

You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence 

You made a holy fool of me, and I've thanked you ever since 

And if she comes circling back, we'll end where we'd begun 

Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one 

Or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken, open seed 

If I come without a thing and I come with all I need 

No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head 

The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead 

I do not exist, I do not exist, I do not exist 

I do not exist, I do not exist, I do not exist 

I do not exist, I do not exist, I do not exist 

I do not exist, only you exist, I do not exist