everything that
darling i crave you i can't get enough of you
i'm happiest when i'm just doing stuff with you
no other one could ever make me feel as i feel
when i'm with you i must be the luckiest guy
you make it better when it couldn't get any worse
but from time to time our fate seems more like a curse
and i won't take you at your word
'cause everything that i have heard from you
is cracked and broken, the words you've spoken
are nothing but sounds which soon hit the ground
your vowels and consonants circle your dissonance
they turn me around but now i have found
they're nothing
--
come back
the summer's passing so are you
and i'll come if you want me to
but if you leave without me dear
i'll understand
come back to me my dear
all has been forgiven
for life without you here
is barely even living
my sparrow heart will soon depart
with news that you are leaving
my spider hands will make demands
on you
so the days grow shorter now
and life picks up again somehow
but if you find another me
i'll understand
come back to me my dear
all has been forgiven
for life without you here
is barely even living
my sparrow heart will soon depart
with news that you are leaving
my spider hands will make demands
on you
on you
on you
come back to me my dear
all has been forgiven
for life without you here
is barely even living
come back to me my dear
all has been forgiven
for life without you here
is barely even living
---
release me
why must i be so alarmed
standing here i'm hardly charmed
usually i wouldn't mind
another year i'm left behind
after all has been used up
the sentence passed we drank the cup
beneath the flood beside the spray
we lived again for one more day
but now it's clear what i should do
my rusted heart needs free of you
release me
release me
release me
release me
in this new and different light
the words in the tall tales you write
have drifted out upon the sea
away from you away from me
but now it's clear what i should do
my rusted heart needs free of you
release me
release me
release me
release me
--
our story
our tiny screams began as raw pain
always changing form
new replacing worn
till blended together
it's turning the weather
behind us is weakened meaning
every urge following beat
directing our feet
and in between
cracks can be seen
for change has taken the good part
of old times from numbered hearts
we need our iron will
a faint grey line is all that charts
the symphony and how it starts
take heed: i want you still
long nights called out for you to
swim towards the sun
everything and none
and made each day seem
like once upon a dream
for change has taken the good part
of old times from numbered hearts
we need our iron will
a faint grey line is all that charts
the symphony and how it starts
take heed: i want you still
today is one example of what could be our story
today is one example of what could be our story
today is one example of what could be our story
today is one example of what could be our story
--
to you
when you said you needed me
and i was all you saw
i gave all i'll ever be
to you
to you
to you
just a boy and just a girl
joined hands and walked as one
our hearts grew and split the world
in two
in two
in two
then as distance spread her wing
you were all you saw
oh my darling what a thing
to do
to do
to do
waited for you to return
and if some day you do
should i stay or should i turn
from you
from you
from you
it's taken you this long to realise
how much i mean to you
it's taken me this long to realise
i'll never mean that much to you
it's taken you this long to realise
how much i mean to you
it's taken me this long to realise
i'll never mean that much to you
to you
to you
to you
--
we're alive
oh if you had been there to see
the scare you gave me
when the news about you reached me that day
and after the call
how time seemed stall
as sorrow and grief came to weigh
on my heart
ooh on my heart
oh you can't imagine the fuss
the panic you caused us
when it seemed that our luck was all done
so we tried to take heart
as our world fell apart
and all this time you were the one
who was strong
you were strong
did our grandmothers know
when they played as little girls
of the strange sad way we would be bound?
did our grandmothers know
when they prayed about the world
that their faith and their love would be the ground
for us?
oh you'll never know just how proud
we were when you vowed
to act bravely and never to lose
and how you commit
to win and not quit
and the beautiful way that you choose to survive
and the way that you don't just mend but you thrive
and the way that you bind us and always remind us
to be grateful because in the end we're alive
we're alive
did our grandmothers know
when they played as little girls
of the strange sad way we would be bound?
did our grandmothers know
when they prayed about the world
that their faith and their love would be the ground
for us?
we're alive
we're alive
we're alive
we're alive
my friend we're alive
my friend we're alive
my friend we're alive
my friend we're alive