My Good Deed-Shearwater

[ti:My Good Deed] [ar:Shearwater] [al:Shearwater Live At Maxwell's 05/20/2004] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Good Deed - Shearwater [00:26.69]I tried to save a girl I truly loved [00:30.18]And didn't quite know how to help her [00:34.86]So now she's sleeping as her parents up above [00:38.60]Cry over things that they can't tell her [00:44.10]And when I did my good deed [00:46.40]I thought I'd feel unbroken gladness [00:52.96]But standing in the street alone [00:55.14]I just felt sinking sadness [01:00.88]Girl your dad will not us bless [01:05.19]So hang up your veil and dress [01:09.81]Look at me and take one guess [01:14.11]Where this best-intentioned love will lead us [01:20.05]I once felt a feeling fully through [01:22.74]Though I knew I shouldn't feel it [01:27.79]Because to act on it I'd be a person [01:30.54]Who should be slapped into a straitjacket [01:32.91]So every time it comes around [01:39.40]I just let it die inside me [01:45.39]You said "I only come around [01:47.82]Because I just need you to hide me" [01:54.07]So we knelt in those dead weeds [01:58.24]Sticks and sharp rocks cutting into our knees [02:02.69]And I thought that we would freeze [02:07.06]But there was just too much warm blood in our bodies [02:13.05]I'm not going to make you take the pills [02:16.11]Though you should really think about it [02:21.30]The fire by which we both were almost killed [02:24.67]Glowed so beautiful—don't doubt it [02:30.16]But we have to make a choice now [02:32.48]Can we glow without it [02:38.02]There's a space I tried to fill [02:42.40]But I'm seeing now I never will [02:46.82]You fly around while I stand still [02:51.07]Until I slowly just get smaller and smaller [02:56.37]I tried to save a girl I truly loved [02:59.55]And I never would desert her [03:01.92]But we both found out that I was dreaming [03:08.10]Of the day I thoroughly could hurt her [03:10.73]And I saw myself inside her eyes [03:16.53]This shrinking would-be savior [03:23.20]Resented her for never needing him [03:25.32]And couldn't wait just to betray her [03:30.94]So we drove back to her place [03:35.49]From the temporary home that we had made [03:39.99]And I stepped back into the street [03:44.29]Feeling the fullest moment of my life [03:48.30]Slowly shrink away from me