Steamboat

by 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

'Cause it's all that I know how to do

I was born by a body, I'll die by one too

And places ain't nothing if it ain't got you

And one day, I'ma be a steam boat, baby

One day, I can be a freight train lady

I'll 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

I've been arranging each of my movements

And all of my gestures and trying to fool myself

Into thinking that everything is small, that nothing has reason

I woke up and cried, a convulsion of honesty brought me to life

When I thought I was gone

But I can't put a lie in the mouth of a song

And one day, I'ma be a steam boat, baby

One day, I can be a freight train lady

I'll 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 bone

Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bone