MUSIC & LYRICS

You’ll do me no harm, I got the psalms in my pocket
If you wanna get to heaven, son, you’re gonna need a rocket
You wanna make the pearly gate before they start to lock it
Once they lock it, oh you won’t get in
See, hell’s just heaven with the lights turned down
A few more fires we can dance around
And all my friends will be there anyhow
‘Cause I’ve always been a sucker for sin

You gotta get on, get to moving
Get on, before the night’s too cold
You gotta get on, get to moving
Get on, before we’re all too old
Get on

Well I was calm, then I was critical, but now I’m just inspired
Slow to go political but I’m getting f**king tired
Of the demon screaming freedom with her hair on fire
Saying kindness seals our fate
See, first we steal the land, and then we set the laws
Boundless plains with the fastened doors
Oh can’t you see the irony, can’t you see the flaws
Oh no we won’t just wait

You gotta get on, get to moving
Get on, before the night’s too cold
You gotta get on, get to moving
Get on, before we’re all too old
Get on

I’m feeling like this life for some’s a little out of reach
When your coffee and your scones cost you twelve bucks each, but
I’m not here to scold you brother, I’m not here to preach
I say to each their own
But if we gave a little more, spent a little less
You take out what you need but you leave some for the rest
And pay some more attention to the pounding in your chest
And maybe just skip those scones

You gotta get on, get to moving
Get on, before the night’s too cold
You gotta get on, get to moving
Get on, before we’re all too old
Get on

Well, the weather’s far too cold
If the banks stay firm and hold, we’re safe here
If the levee starts to burst
We best expect the worst and race, dear

Oh, I need this bed to float now
Take my leave, go on and row down stream
Just leave me be

Oh, the river gonna bring me down
Oh, the river gonna bring me down

 

Well, the weather starts to change
As I put that mountain range behind me
As I drifted through the port
I lost the fleeting thought they’d find me

Oh, each day this river widens
Oh, I’d see the change inside her now
If I turned around

Oh, the valley gonna pull me in
Oh, the valley gonna pull me in

 

Never saw a sign of shore
‘Til I hit the ocean floor and lay there
Though boring half the time
I’ve more than half a mind to stay there

Oh, these skies are growing dark now
Seas will rise and fall, this tide we ride
It rules us all

Oh, the thunder gonna roll on in
Oh, the thunder gonna roll on in

We’re watching the stars, they’re watching the moon
We all wait for the sun to come break up the gloom
And the wolves they still howl, for the day will break soon
So we stumble on home, kicking bottles and stones
We stumble on home to our room

Well I draw your smile, and you draw the shades
We’ll wait here a while for the sunlight to fade
And evening arrives as the wolves start to bay
The moments will pass and shatter like glass
And leave us at last where we lay

So lay down your sword and come in from the rain
Kick off your boots and shed all your chains
You can stay there all night, still the wolves will remain
I’ve twice checked the locks, I’ve my gun in my socks
And this door can hold more than the strain

I could not see this going this way, no
I could not imagine this showing on your face the way it does
I could not hear you speaking of this, no
I could not imagine you telling me the way you think it is

Hold on tight, I was not prepared for you
Your tongue you should bite, cause if you feel the same way too
Then darling, we might find out what we need to do,
But oh, give it time, cause I’m into you, oh

I could not see this going this way, no
I could not imagine this showing on your face the way it does
I could not hear you speaking of me, no
I could not imagine you seeming so comfortable and free

Hold on tight, I was not prepared for you
Your tongue you should bite, cause if you feel the same way too
Then darling, we might find out what we need to do,
But oh, give it time, cause I’m into you, oh

 

Oh she said, the days grow long my dear
Oh he said, if it’s so wrong why I am still here
He said, when I’m with you my dear
Oh he said, I feel the same way too

Amy, go put on your coat
I promised I’d build you a boat
And I pray each day that it may stay afloat
Amy, go put on your coat

Amy, this wind is too still
And we’ve got a sail to fill
I’ve not a doubt, further out, that it will
Amy, this wind is too still

 

Darling, there’s rocks to the west
Oh and I can’t shake this ache in my chest
Morning is dawning, it comes without warning
It’s best that we’re going now, better start rowing now

 

Amy, let’s drift out to sea
And trust there’s a gust in the breeze
Leave both the oars on the shore when we leave
Amy, let’s drift out to sea

Amy, we ain’t coming home
I’ve packed up the things that we own
If anyone rings there’s a note on the phone
Saying Amy, we ain’t coming home

 

Darling, there’s rocks to the west
Oh and I can’t shake this ache in my chest
The morning is dawning, it comes without warning
It’s best that we’re going now, better start rowing now

I need whiskey
(You need Jesus)
I know it’s risky
But I’ll do whatever pleases me
I know she’ll love me,
I know she’ll love me either way
I know she’ll love me,
I know she’ll love me either way

He’s so good at listening
(She don’t stop talking)
We’ll still be dancing
When we’re too old for walking
But I know he’ll love me
I know he’ll love me either way
I know he’ll love me
I know he’ll love me either way

Well, I ain’t tactful
(Subtle as gunfire)
But it’s a fact that,
That you’re the one, I
I’m gonna love babe
I’m gonna love you either way
I’m gonna love you
I’m gonna love you either way

He buys me jewellery
(She rathers roses)
Well I thought he knew me
That’s how he shows it
But I know he’ll love me
I know he’ll love me either way
I know he’ll love me
I know he’ll love me either way

 

Well, I’m hardly a heartthrob
(I’m mostly a hot mess)
I fear my heart’s stopped
‘Til she’s in that white dress
And she says she loves me
She says she loves me either way
She says she loves me
She says she loves me either way

She’s always had a passion for anything like fashion
But thinks it looks better on the floor
And for someone who knows everything about clothes
Well she barely wears a thing anymore

She says that something’s missing when we get to kissing
Cause she doesn’t like the lights turned out
So she throws open the curtains, tears off her shirt,
And turns to candles when the sun burns out

 

Married to the preacher man, faithful ain’t a feature
And I promise that she’ll eat you alive
She says darling quit your stressing, just give me your blessing
It’ll be the best thing you survive

You don’t know where you went, you don’t know what you spent
But you can smell her scent on your shirt
It’s all for the best, take your heart from your chest
And the rest is all going to hurt

 

No, you’ll never love her but you see it through
The kind of girl your mother wouldn’t want for you
She’s gonna love you ’til you’re black and blue
Frozen through, your heart in two
Black and blue

 

Everybody’s needing a story to proceed ’em
But I’m worried that it’s happened again
Cause every time you’re here, I just start to fear
That you haven’t even told them your name

Everybody’s saying you’re simply just playing around
You’ve got a mind of your own
But even just by playing, you’re basically saying
That you’re really scared of being alone

 

No, you’ll never love her but you see it through
The kind of girl your mother wouldn’t want for you
She’s gonna love you ’til you’re black and blue
Frozen through, your heart in two
Black and blue

Stupid child, the streets are wild
And they lied when they said the world was better
You called to the night, your voice out of sight
And you were thick to think that he felt it

Foolish child,
These games are far too hard
Mind your heart next time
Foolish child,
Watch your bones fall apart
And boys can’t put them back together

Velvet voice, your car the only noise
As you soothed the creases from my brow
All my fears that I’ve harboured all these years
Were forgotten by the end of the hour

Foolish child,
These games are far too hard
Mind your heart next time
Foolish child,
Watch your bones fall apart
And boys can’t put them back together

 

Watch your step, ’cause your soul’s all you’ve left
When you’re lying deep in the ground

Oh, we’re spinning ’round too fast
I reach out but I don’t get a grasp
Oh, we’re spinning ’round too fast
I speak out but I don’t ever ask

 

Hey, you’re screaming at me too loud
I can’t figure out a way around
Hey, you haven’t even told me your name

Say you wrote the song that I heard
But I know you didn’t write a word
Still you’re the one who’s getting the fame

Every hour, every station
We’ll be blessed by your creation
Everyone will have that song on their mind

But I know with every playing
There’s no truth to what you’re saying
They’ve just written what they know we will like

 

Stay with me any minute
Now you’ll see they’ll be finding
So many reasons for them
Not to leave

Meet me in the hallway, in the middle of the night
The door reveals the mountain air, there’s still no sign of light
The love within your stare, well
It’s making me feel I’ve been hypnotised

Meet me in the forest, and it’s there we’ll build our home
The city life is boring, there’s enough warmth in our bones
And every time you’re close, well
You’re making me feel like I’m paralysed
You’re making me feel like I’m paralysed

Meet me in the mountains, and we’ll turn towards the east
And as the sun arises, it supplies us with our heat
And every time I speak, well
You’re making me feel like I’ve improvised

Meet me in the morning, as the rain settles in
The storm confirms that winter’s here, we’ll shed our summer skin
And every time you’re near, well
You’re making me feel so romanticised
You’re making me feel so romanticised

 

It’s time we leave this town
We’ll head for higher ground
We’ll say we’re mountain-bound for somewhere better
It’s time we build our home
We’ll find strength in our bones
We’ll leave, forever known for this adventure

 

So it’s okay for you to change to somewhere higher
We’ll make a move, we’ll make a way, we’ll start the fire
We’ll sleep for days, and when we wake
We can retire

It’s not the same, it’s not the same, now that we’re older
We wish for warmth, and wish for change, and want it colder
A change of place, a change of pace, pick up our shoulders
Pick up our shoulders

I guess I should be leaving soon
But right now I’m scared to leave the room
Cause if I return, well I know you’ll be here
We can pray I miss the lights
And then I’m too late to catch the flight
And I’ll have to stay with you another year

 

It’s probably best if I don’t speak
Cause what I want to say
Is not acceptable in places quite like these
Not sure what I should do
I guess I’ll just appreciate
The company of someone quite like you

It’s just a mass of stony beach
We’re travelling so fast, but those below,
They underestimate our speed
We’re swallowed into blue
Could this be the emergency
That finally puts those exits to their use?

 

But in time we will all
Fall down to where we started it all
And this time when you call
I’ll tell you I’ve been sorry since the moment I departed New York

 

It’s probably best if I don’t sleep
The nights are getting longer,
You’re just trying to fill the space between the sheets
Still I won’t fill the room
I’ll rearrange the house
But never quite remove the space left there by you

My neighbour’s fast asleep
Still, I can’t help but think of how
They’re using up the honoured window seat
They’re blocking out the view
The infinite blue ocean,
We’re doing what we can to chase the moon

 

But in time we will all
Fall down to where we started it all
And this time when you call
I’ll tell you I’ve been sorry since the moment I departed New York

 

‘Cause if my plane had never shown,
And if our pain had never grown
We’d have worked it ’til near perfect
And believed that we were home
And it’s been hours since I woke,
And it’s been days now since we spoke
And I’ve been drinking, slowly sinking
Since my television broke
Still the puzzle’s left undone,
And we’re just left chasing the sun
I’m left wishing it was over
Just as soon as we’d begun
And I’ve a suitcase filled with sand,
And I’ve your letter in my hand
I must leave it and can’t see it ’til we land

Lay your head on my shoulder
Pour your scars on my skin
I know we’re getting older
Just let it begin

You can’t reason with lovers
‘Cause they only see reasons why
It’s hard to see what you need
With stars in your eyes

 

So don’t let me down
You don’t know what you’re talking about now
Don’t go and say that you mean it,
‘Cause I believe you won’t let me down
I know we’re just thinking out loud
I won’t just say that I’ve seen it
I’ll leave it to work itself out

 

Sometimes I wish we were strangers
Then leaving wouldn’t hurt me so much
But I’d sooner die than goodbye
And not know your touch

 

So don’t let me down
You don’t know what you’re talking about now
Don’t go and say that you mean it,
Cause I believe you won’t let me down
I know we’re just thinking out loud
I won’t just say that I’ve seen it
I’ll leave it to work itself out

 

But I will fight
And hope that there’s hope left inside of you now
I’m frightened that everything you ever loved
Has now lost its desire

But I will fight
And hope that there’s hope left inside of you now
I’m frightened that everything you ever loved
Has now lost its desire

The dust it set, the flag it blew
The lights went out all over you
And as we left, the tree came down
There was not a breath to break the mighty sound

The humming tone drew us in
The hidden door, the blowing wind
From the river bed, the stony ground
The iron shed, the ocean sound

 

We could just stay here, if only for now
We could just say this won’t bring us back down
To the ground where we lay

 

The dust it set, the flag it blew
The lights went out, and darkness grew
And as we left, the silence broke
And from the depths, the voices spoke

And what they said drew us in
The secret note, the blowing wind
From the river bed, the stony ground
The iron shed, we’re homeward bound

 

We could just stay here, if only for now
We could just say this won’t bring us back down
To the ground where we lay

 

So hold on tight, hold ’til it’s numbing,
‘Til your palms have gone white, cause change is always coming, so
Check your grasp, the movement approaches
And it’s coming on fast, we’ll hit before you know it, so

She said to find peace in this life,
You have to live it well
I said, how can you tell
She said the only cure for this love
Is to learn to love you more
I said, how can you be sure

Cause try as we might, we don’t get out alive
And we are all just driven by the fear
So let’s take this night, begin to live or start to die
Cause loving’s all we’ve got while we’re here,
While we’re here

You said my only fear in this world
Is to truly show my face
I said, don’t let life go to waste
You said I never believed
That love is even real
I said you never got to feel

Cause try as we might, we don’t get out alive
And we are all just driven by the fear
So let’s take this night, begin to live or start to die
Cause loving’s all we’ve got while we’re here,
While we’re here, while we’re here, while we’re here

 

She said, don’t you remember,
Cause I can’t seem to forget you
You know I’ll never let you down
He said, that’s not the issue,
But every time I was with you,
My feet wouldn’t touch the ground

She said, don’t you remember,
Cause I can’t seem to forget you
You know I’ll never let you down

Well I know how you’re feeling,
Come on I’ll take you home
You’re walking on the ceiling,
You’re stealing the show

In the morning you’ll feel better,
But this is not a joke
It’s a storm that you can’t weather,
It’s better we go

 

So close your eyes and take a breath
I will only try what I think’s best for us

Take a seat and slow it down
Try to see how this is for the rest of us

Cause I can see the storm, it’s closing in
And the rain will only fall where we have been
And we’ll be fine as long as we keep travelling, oh

 

I know that you’ve been thinking
The room is spinning ’round
But darling you’ve been drinking,
And it’s bringing us down

I know that you’ve been dreaming,
Cause I can see it on your face
It’s time that we were leaving,
Cause you’re not seeing straight,
Oh, you’re not seeing straight

So close your eyes and take a breath
I will only try what I think’s best for us

Take a seat and slow it down
Try to see how this is for the rest of us

Cause I can see the storm, it’s closing in
And the rain will only fall where we have been
And we’ll be fine as long as we keep travelling, oh

 

Well, I can see the storm

Oh, my love for you, it goes on, it goes on
My love for you, it goes on

 

There’s a bridge running over the water
And I could take it and get straight to you,
But there’s so much left to make of this

Though the water’s running faster than ever
We could dive in if we wanted to
And it could take us somewhere else than this

There’s a ship going over the ocean
And we could take it at a steady pace
Cause there’s so much more to learn from this

But if it comes to be the greatest of options
We could dive into the tidal wave
And I’ll still be glad it’s turned to this

 

So I’ll run, cause it’s all that I can do

 

There’s a place where the river is narrow
And we could jump it rather easily
But there’s so much left to still decide

If it comes to be, the water is shallow
We should wait to get across the stream
Cause I’m still not sure which is the better side

 

So I’ll run, cause it’s all that I can do
It’s all that I can do
It’s all that I can do

There’s a place, there’s a time
It’s a race to the line again,
I’ll give chase

There’s a start, there’s an end
There’s a place in my heart again,
I’ll make haste

There’s a place, there’s a time
It’s a race to the line again,
I’ll give chase

There’s a start, there’s an end
There’s a place in my heart again,
I’ll make haste

 

Oh, my love for you, it goes on, it goes on
My love for you, it goes on, hey hey hey yeah
My love for you, it goes on, it goes on,
My love for you, it goes on