Carmen and I climbed out of my window
Oh the look in her eye, as we ran through the meadow
Where old jacky would wait with full box of white dreams
How we ran on the lines, we were caught in the high beams
With friends like these
I can do as ever I please
I can be what ever I want to be
With friends like these
The twisting of tongues on our own little island
A wolf and her young and the screaming of sirens
As we ran through the fields
You primised we’d never get old
Oh children can you feel, the night is taking hold
With friends like these
I can do as ever I please
I can be what ever I want to be
With friends like these
Can you feel it
Can you feel it
Taking hold
Come on
Come on
With friends like these
I can do as ever I please
I can be what ever I want to be
With friends like these
With friends like these
We can do what ever we pleaser
We can be what ever we want to be
With friends like these
I know you’re sleeping in a different room
I don’t feel like I’ve been talking to you
Wanna kiss you in the morning
When the sunlight shatters over you
Life is so complicated
When every body’s watching you
And I've been self medicating
Trying to find a way to talk to you
How we ever gonna make this work?
How we ever gonna keep this song alive?
If we don’t fight
If we don’t cry
And if we don’t try
Even when it hurts, I want you
Nothing seems to work, I need you
Days and nights are blurred
I wanna be right by your side
Even when it hurts
Even when it hurts
Even when it hurts
I wanna be right by your side
I wish I never saw you cry
But I never want to filter life
I wanna hold you in the morning
I’d do anything to dry those eyes
We don’t want to be suffocated
By the pressures of a modern life
As everything around us changes
There will always be you and I
How we ever gonna make this work?
How we ever gonna keep our song alive?
If we don’t fight
If we don’t cry
And if we don’t try
Cos even when it hurts, I want you
Nothing seems to work, I need you
Days and nights are blurred
I wanna be right by your side
Even when it hurts
Even when it hurts
Even when it hurts
I wanna be right by your side
I’ve been going crazy
I’ve been going out of my mind
Giving it all of my time
Tryin to live all of this life
All I wanna do is
Press your skin against mine
I wanna be right by your side
And I want you, right by mine
Are we ever break this curse?
Are we ever gonna keep our souls alive?
If we don’t fight
If we don’t cry
And if we don’t try
Cos even when it hurts, I want you
And nothing seems to work, I need you
Days and nights are blurred
I want you right by my side
Even when it hurts
Even when it hurts
Even when it hurts
I want you right by my side
Even when it hurts
I want you right by my side
I tried to call you
Because I had a vivid dream
About the way that all of our love
Disappeared
You know that moment between wake
And between sleep
When it all still feels so real
But then you see
You see the light come crashing through
The curtains where we used to sleep
On all the empty space you leave
To show me what this could have been
No words
No words
No words
Could ever bring you back to me
I dream of a place that we still meet
In the corner of some bar on a quiet street
There's a stranger with flowers for someone sweet, that I
Saw and I though of you and me
And the crowded sound doesn’t bother me
As the bells rings out you hold onto me
But the birds sing loud
And its waking me
As I reach for you
I see the light come crashing through
The curtains where we used to sleep
On all the empty space you leave
To show me what this could have been
No words
No words
No words
Could ever bring you back to me
No words
No words
No words
Could ever bring you back to me
If I was honest I would say that I don’t want it this way
If I could only see your face
No words
No words
No words
Could ever bring you back to me
You’re so hurt
You’re so hurt
You’re so hurt
From all the words I could not keep
No I never used to dream this much
I was blinded by the fear of god
I was looking down but never up
Then you hit me like a rush of blood
I knew I was fucked but not that much
I was trying to run from who I was
But theres something in the love you got
Now that I'm waking up to this
I wanna see the things I missed
I wanna taste your every kiss
Let's drink to this
I wanna lay beneath the trees
And let all my tears dry on your sleeve
And now that we’re talking honestly
Let's drink to this
So put your bags down on the floor
Hit the light and close the door
To have you here is all I want
I always knew I had it wrong
I’d close my eyes and I would run
But I had to fall just to belong
Now I'm living for another song
Now that I'm waking up to this
I wanna see the things I missed
I wanna taste your every kiss
Let's drink to this
I wanna lay beneath the trees
And let all my tears dry on your sleeve
Now that we’re talking honestly
Let's drink to this
You’re all I ever wanted
Yeah its all I ever wanted
Now that I'm waking up to this
I wanna see the things I missed
I wanna taste your every kiss
Let's drink to this
I wanna lay beneath the trees
And let all my tears dry on your sleeve
Now that we’re talking honestly
Let's drink to this
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