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Anniversaries
05:10
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Oh Mother how we've changed
I no longer feel afraid
I was five years old when we first came here
Running from my brothers games
But now we come here barely twice a year
For Christmas, your birthday, something like that
Now your fathers in the hospital, so we come home.
So now i leave this city by the sea
The night and the things i love, to be washed away
Because we're pushed and pulled from the day we're born
down corridors and sliding doors, torn by the wind.
But maybe this time, maybe this time, I'll be good
Maybe this time, maybe this time, maybe the sun will rise where it falls
and my frozen heart will start to thaw
hear the voice of your father whilst you tidy his clothes
the voice of another at the end of the day, the end of the day
These days.
I guess these streets will never change
as I pass the grave where we once played, years ago.
but as i grew i lost some youth
this rootless town seemed strange to and I forgot my home
Now I'm coming back again
trees arc to block the sun from my gaze
I see my father, my brother, his wife wears black
and there you are.
I remember once you said to me
we're all just pebbles thrown to sea
we'll i've run aground
But maybe this time, maybe this time, I'll be good
Maybe this time, maybe this time, maybe the sun will rise where it falls
and my frozen heart will start to thaw
hear the voice of your father whilst you tidy his clothes
the voice of another at the end of the day, the end of the day
These days.
Oh Mother how we've changed
I no longer feel afraid
But we come here barely twice a year
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Birthday Letters
05:35
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It's a snap shot of youth
the first stones thrown at your window
on the first page of our book
the space between your breath and mine
in a room far from me now
your scar your words for my ears only
our names etched on the page
for the first time, for the first time
Let me be brief now love
let me hold back time
for I have built my tomb from roses
and all these birthday letters
It's a short film it's love
but time won't recall you as I do
on a bench made for two
your name with mine and rusted
Let me be brief now love
let me hold back time
for I have built my tomb from roses
and all these birthday letters
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Ghosts on the water
03:43
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A thousand lights carry me home
over bridges through tunnels
and i see ghosts on the water
they all look like you
you never stayed when we're sleeping
another petal in the breeze
and i see ghosts on the water
so please make it rain
please make it rain
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Closing Time
04:49
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Put up chairs, the barmaid stares, it's closing time
but the streets on fire, the midnight choir are drunk and easy now,
the pavement is an ashtray for
lovers did their heads beneath their winter clothes
drowned by the rain or by the night the taxi lights too bright
the clock ticks dead, the day is put to rest.
Got to get out of these shoes
find a way to your room
or any room, where I feel love
All the empty botles remind us of our last chirade
but every night this town turns to a maskarade
and i have played each part from time to time
Got to get out of these shoes
find a way to your room
or any room, where I feel
life isn't a dying race
and love is more than canvas waves
fireworks explode high above
i've got to go
I won't I won't
leave a note and a rose by the stair
just a light going out the wind caught up in your hair
another firework cracks the sky line
i've got to go
but don't put your trust in me when i'm broke in two
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