Boats Against the Current - Ryan O'Reilly.mp3

[00:00.00]Run your hand along my arm, inside my jacket sleeve
[00:06.93]Let your tears fall in your smile, I can hardly breathe
[00:14.55]With my hands upon your hips you took our flag down to half mast
[00:21.54]When we turned to face each other we were already in the past
[00:29.01]The emptiness fills me and it's tidal like the Thames
[00:35.85]If the numbness ever leaves me I won't want this pain to end
[00:42.93]Is it possible to change this, what would you like to ask
[00:49.74]Is there a river we can follow ceaselessly towards the past
[00:57.12]I was blind to all those candles, heard the music felt your dress
[01:03.57]I shut my eyes your lips you gave to me for one last sweet caress
[01:10.17]Don't you give our love a eulogy I can't watch you close the door
[01:18.33]It was winter time the first time but time's not been stopped before
[01:24.57]You said you dreamed that I was holding you, I kissed your eyes your
[01:30.15]lips your hair
[01:31.83]You cried that was my goodbye to you, I only wish babe I'd been there
[01:39.18]Remember when I ran away to Dublin you wrote and told me to stay strong
[01:46.20]You've only been gone a few hours but they're tortuously long
[01:53.67]The chalice holds the poison and it's fermented by our fear
[02:00.24]Put our love into a four foot hole, a foot for every year
[02:07.89]Yesterday I had you, but it would be the last
[02:14.07]The doors are locked and they've been bolted
[02:18.39]It's trapped us in the past
[02:21.84]I can picture you so perfectly your hat down to your shoes
[02:28.08]You said I've never been an adult and not belonged to you
[02:35.13]Remember Magheramore that time I held you safe in both my hands
[02:42.99]But the tide was unrelenting breaks the rocks down into sand
[02:51.03]We didn't wait to hear the bell this time we knew it had just been rung
[02:58.89]Our cobbled streets they were alive with all the carols being sung
[03:05.64]Can our love end so suddenly, I'm not sure if it's true
[03:12.87]Every time I dry my heavy eyes I still think I'll see you
[03:18.99]I drove for hours and for miles after you got out the car
[03:26.46]I couldn't listen to those love sick songs because they don't know who we are
[03:34.23]I reached across to feel you but nothing now feels right
[03:41.22]The stars are dancing heel to toe across the endless night
[03:50.37]I will draw the curtain you can take a sweeping bow
[03:56.88]We remembered all our lines babe no-one had to show us how
[04:04.17]Be careful that you do not slip upon the newly painted stage
[04:11.04]I expected your directions but not times exquisite rage
[04:18.36]Whoever you discover who next walks you to your door
[04:24.51]Or dares put his hands where my hands used be
[04:28.50]To dance across your bedroom floor
[04:31.65]I hope he will understand you're worth much more than he could know
[04:39.27]Will you think of us from time to time and let our time together show
[05:00.69]The pearls they would destroy us because that's not a diamond ring
[05:07.32]Maybe I was scared to show you but you did mean everything
[05:14.61]I only understand you only you know all of me
[05:23.61]Is this how Adam felt the day that Eden set him free?