11/24/08

yalnızlık

he was born on a summer day 1951
and with a slap of a hand
he had landed as an only son
his mother and father said what a lovely boy
we'll teach him what we learned
ah yes just what we learned
we'll dress him up warmly and
we'll send him to school
it'll teach him how to fight
to be nobody's fool

in the summer of '53 his mother
brought him a sister
and she told him we must attend to her needs
she's so much younger than you
well he ran down the hall and he cried
oh how could his parents have lied
when they said he was an only son
he thought he was the only one

he left home on a winter day 1969
and he hoped to find all the love
he had lost in that earlier time
well his sister grw up
and she married a man
he gave her a son
ah yes a lovely son
they dressed him up warmly
they sent him to school
it taught him how to fight
to be nobody's fool

oh what a lonely boy

11/14/08

önceki

it's been a while since the two of us talked
about a week since the day that you walked
knowing things would never be the same
with your empty heart and mine full of pain
so explain to me, how it came to this
take it back to the night we kissed
it was dublin city on a friday night
you were vodkas and coke, i was guiness all night

we were sitting with our backs against the world
saying things that we thought but never heard
who would have thought it would end up like this
where everything we talked about is gone
and the only chance we have of moving on
is try to take it back before it all went wrong

there was a time that we'd stay up all night
best friends talking till the daylight
took the joys alongside the pain
with not much to loose, but so much to gain
are you hearing me, cause i don't wanna miss
set you adrift on memory bliss
it was grafton street on a rainy night
i was down on one knee and you were mine for life

we were thinking we would never be apart
with your name tattooed across my heart
who would have thought it would end up like this
where everything we talked about is gone
and the only chance we have of moving on
is try to take it back before it all went wrong

if the clouds don't clear
then we'll rise above it, we'll rise above it
heaven's gate is so near
come walk with me through
just like we used to, just like we used to
let's take it back before it all went wrong

before the worst, before we mend
before our hearts decide
it's time to love again
before too late, before too long
let's try to take it back
before it all went wrong