He went to sea for the day He wanted to know what to say When he's asked what he'd done In the past to someone That he loves endlessly Now she's gone, so is he
I went to war every morning I lost my way but now I'm following What you said in my arms What I read in the charms That I love durably Now it's dead and gone and I am free
I went to sleep for the daytime I shut my eyes to the sunshine Turned my head away from the noise Bruise and drip decay of childish toys That I loved arguably All our labouring gone to seed
Went out to play for the evening We wanted to hold onto the feeling On the stretch in the sun And our breathlessness as we run To the beach endlessly As the sun creeps up on the sea
Waking up today, it was cold out There's something I should say, but I can't get my head around The bends in your brain, and your elaborate pain Makes me tired
As an old balloon, I hold my breath Like a penance paid too soon, and with too much eagerness To know what is true When air is changed by you Makes it hard
I don't know where it comes from Where to go When the rains come When the rain put me back In the bottle Where the sea meets the sun Where the bones and their rattle They don't mean anything to no one I, I had a swing When my salt was my own I'd my teeth bared for battle Till love lost made me dull It made me dull It made me dull
Put me back in the bottle Where the sea meets the sun Where the bones and their rattle They don't mean anything to no one And I had a swing When my salt was my own I'd my teeth bared for battle Till love lost made me dull It made me dull It made me dull
Sit down and fire away I know it's tricky when you're feeling low When you feel like your flavour has gone the way Of a pre-shelled pistachio I know you're weighed down And fed up with your heavy boots Laced with melancholy notions all your own
I do ? like sugar ? tend toward the brittle and sticky when spun And I know my demeanour can go the way Of a photo left out in the sun And I try to keep myself in lilies and flax seeds Oh what a folly, fooling just yourself
Sit down and smoke away I wouldn't knock it till you're in them shoes I watch as our subtlety blows away As a blush it gives way to a bruise But seemly we'd freely make the trade off A day rot to take the weight off And swap the boots for red shoes
For you, we steal a house of smoke and brick And I keep it all For you, bedecked with bicycles to pick I keep it all For you, it wouldn't do wandering all adrift So I keep it all For you, there's fire in the belly of our ship I keep it all
Call if the light's on, come in and lay low Just so that you know, go on and Fall down and hold your ground A harbour that grows And how could you know That I keep it all
For you, we fill our sails with tales and fables I keep it all For you, to bear you through stormy seas unstable I keep it all For you, you're welcome to all that's on my table I keep it all And you, I count you till I fall asleep I keep it all
Call if the light's on, come in and lay low Just so that you know, go on and Fall down and hold your ground A harbour that grows And how could you know That I keep it all
What you say we come up with the sun the morning bell to Come and be my friend until the end I'll be your friend as well
I don't know what you smoke Or what countries you've been to If you speak any other languages other than your own I'd like to meet you
I don't know if you drive If you love the ground beneath you I don't know if you write letters or you panic on the phone I'd like to call you
All the same, if you want to I am game
I don't know if you can swim If the sea has any draw for you If you're better in the morning or when the sun goes down I'd like to call you
I don't know if you can dance If the thought ever occurred to you If you eat what you've been given or you push it 'round your plate I'd like to cook for you
All the same, I would want to I am game
If you walk my way I could keep my head We could creep away In the dark Or maybe not We could shoot it down anyway
I don't know if you read novels or the magazines If you love the hand that feeds you I assume that your heart's been bruised I'd like to know you
You don't know if I can draw at all Or what records I am into If I sleep like a spoon or rarely at all Or maybe you would do Or maybe you would do
If you walk my way I will keep my head We will feel our way Through the dark Though I don't know you I think that I would do I don't fall easy at all
If you walk my way I will keep my head We will feel our way through the dark Though I don't know you I think that I would do I don't fall easy at all
