mewithoutYou is an American band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that formed in 2001. They are known for their warbling vocal style and introspective lyrics of lead vocalist Aaron Weiss, as well as their prominent bass riffs and atmospheric guitar.
The band was originally conceived as a side project. The Weiss brothers and Kleinberg were playing together in another band called The Operation (who released one album, 2001's There Is Hope for a Tree Cut Down
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
AmG x 2 AmG In a sweater poorly knit and an unsuspecting smile GAm Little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile AmG A fumbling reply -- an awkward rigid laugh GAm I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft AmG Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between G (lightly) Am sweeter than any wine and bitter as mustard green AmG Light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickle bread GC The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
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As you 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 by 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 But now books are overdue and the goats are underfed the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
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You're C door-without-C-key, C field-without-C-fence You made a holy fool of me and I've thanked you ever since 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 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
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CEm I do not exist x3 CEm x3
CEm I do not exist CEm only YOU exist CEm I do not exist