The Wailin Jennys - Ten Mile Stilts

The Wailin Jennys - Ten Mile Stilts


Imagine you're a girl on ten mile stilts

You travel round the world taking it all in

You'll never touch the ground

Is it a blessing or a curse

And if you're too high to be found

Are you lost or just rehearsed


Got a heart that opens clear in this cool September dark

It rests on treetop leaves

And bursts its little sparks

And sometimes it sings its songs

And it lets its secrets out

Except for one that sears inside

That it cannot live without


But if I tell you will you take it

Will you shine it up to me

Can you be strong to let me go on

And set this freedom free


The stars are out tonight

Up here they're ripe to hold

But I have learned what comes to those who get too close

I'm no Icarus in flight

And I'm old enough to know

That love is patient but still unyielding

If you leave it long enough it lets you go


But if I tell you wil you take it

Will you shine it up to me

Can you be strong to let me go on

And set this freedom free