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Artist: Great Lake Swimmers
Canonical path: /great-lake-swimmers/when-it-flows
Related lyric paths: 6
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When It Flows
Read When It Flows lyrics by Great Lake Swimmers on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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When It Flows
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When it flows from the fingers
And turns to stone
It shatters with the touch
Feel the air, breathe it in
Turn the corner, take the bend
Give or take the bend
It's a spiralling cork-screw path towards you
It's a sinking, twisted path from me to you
For a second I saw you so clearly (clearly)
For a moment I knew you so dearly (dearly)
I looked into your eyes and into your mind
You were laughing like a statue come to life
The subtle piano raindrops
The creaking of the buildings and their cellos
The wind was our violin
The sky was a symphonic mural of stars
Hiding behind perfectly placed clouds
Because everything is the way it is
And everything is perfect in their imperfections
And everything is placed the best
And it is now, and it is here
And tomorrow is another now
Waiting to happen
The roar of an action silences all the words
The cry of an accomplishment
Drowns the whimper of ten thousand words
And we live in our actions and our reactions
And we live in our actions and our reactions
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Great Lake Swimmers performs "When It Flows", and this lyric page sits inside the Great Lake Swimmers catalog on LyroVerse.
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