We've been nowhere so near
I just said what I need you to hear
Oceans crash in your eyes
There's a storm past the calm of the tide
Broken boats like the lives we denied
Please believe in me, know it's alright

Better days, they are gaining fast

All that covered ground between you and me
Those miles of time gone by
All is not quite as it seems, do you agree?
It's always us we find

We are never not near
You just said what you need me to hear
That you wish that I'd stayed
Braced and caught you and not been afraid
Faced the worst of what might come our way
Linked like chain and then shouldered the strain

When my worries were gaining fast

All that covered ground between you and me
Those miles of time gone by
All is not quite as it seems, do you agree?
It's always us we find

Will this happen to you and me
so long as we are separately
letting love pass us by?
This don't happen that commonly
We are the anomaly
And I'm done wasting time

Waiting in line
Waiting for our time

Can our life together please be gaining fast?
Can it start and then forever can it last?
'cause the waiting is the hardest part.

Gaining Fast

Will I be at X years wasted Y years on from now,
trying to get you to say your love's the verb and I'm the noun?

2 in 3
Count on me
I'm the remainder, carry me.
Times the mean
Count on me
I'll be your anomaly.

Gimme your numbers - and I'll give you mine
A value of love here, is just yours plus mine

Will I be at B hearts broken C new loves from now,
trying to fill in the blanks to see the sum and work it out?

2 in 3
Count on me
I'm the remainder, carry me.
Times the mean
Count on me
I'll be your anomaly.

Gimme your numbers - and I'll give you mine
A value of love here, is just yours plus mine

2 hearts, so much greater than the sum of their parts.
You start adding it all up and then you're off the charts.
Let's get smart, we're but a fraction of the whole when we're apart.

And I've done the math a million times
I'm I factoring enough to change your mind?
I'm counting on the variable of time
before you see
before you feel
before you count on me.

Count On Me

Lately I find I'm willing to gamble on the odds of you walking down the stairs, to this place that only sells its coffee in paper cups just so you can see me sat in there. And I'll say, "Hey you," as if I'm not in a shambles at the overwhelming sight of you. Can I steal you away for one lucky hour? It's worth the drive for such a view.

And I'll say, "Hey, yeah. I'll be there when Wednesday comes... looking for you."

Face me, your eyes are making me ramble and I know you just caught me cop a stare. You just play blind and carry on with your story but your phone keeps on lighting up, beware. It's your new man, the thought of which I can't handle but why does he not know where you are now? Could it be you too just want this time to be ours? Do you flirt with starting over new?

And I'll say, "Hey, yeah. I'll be there when Wednesday comes... looking for you."

Been giving myself away to, girls who don't compare to you,
and you're giving yourself to the wrong man.
Get nothing but signals from you, seems clear as a well-lit tattoo, 
but then you slide right through my hands.

And I'll say, "Hey, yeah. I'll be there when Wednesday comes... looking for you."

Looking for you.

When Wednesday Comes

It couldn't be that I'm mistaken
misunderstood my ears and eyes
and I'm about to be forsaken,
cold and uncaught and left behind.

In your mind, am I for now or ever more?
And how does this appear to you beyond the now?

Sublime
from where I'm looking
tonight
Don't close the book on me.
There's so much more to write.

It could well be this how you felt, 
way on back in the way back when,
when I would claim the cards I was dealt
meant I'd leave you lonely time again.

Now and then, I worry that I speak your mind
and I know I say it worse least half the time.

Sublime
from where I'm looking
tonight
Don't close the book on me.
There's so much more...

There'll be times where I feel like crying in the next fortnight.
How I hope you're right.

Sublime
from where I'm looking
tonight
Dont close the book on me
Smile
from where you're looking
tonight
Don't close the book on me
There's so much more, of the love and lore, you said you adored...

... to write.

Sublime

Look to the stars that shimmer, stood at your back door.
Find me in motion 'cross the sky
Mostly observing, stuck in orbit, wanting more
But still a bright and hopeful light in the night

Not quite flying

Always falling sideways like I'm your satellite

Once in two weeks you let me dock and bring me home
Back to the surface of your Earth
There in your Eden bound by gravity and soul
Where I just can't tell you what you're worth to me

And what about me?

Always falling sideways like I'm your satellite

This is gravity
Has me trapped in one direction running circles round your feelings 
Is it love for me?
That I'm seeing past the tears in your eyes that you won't let escape 
As words to me?
Please don't leave me here much longer floating round you if you're feeling just the same.

Always falling sideways like I'm your satellite.

Satellite

Rocks are falling from the salty air
but we don't care
we don't care

Fingers running through your auburn hair
I kissed you there
I kissed you there

Our arms woven like a rope that binds our bodies in embrace

Get away
Escape
Do a minute, we can make it all day
Just nothing more than the shore under our feet
Capitulate
Mistakes
Admit we did it now we have it our way
Just you and me and the freedom to just be us.

Candle burning on the castle grounds
I wished you there
I wished you there

Next the car you made me turn around
We left it there
You left me there

Our eyes locked just like a rail that keeps the train from changing course

Get away
Escape
Do a minute, we can make it all day
Just nothing more than the shore under our feet
Capitulate
Mistakes
Admit we did it now we have it our way
Just you and me and the freedom to just be us.

You unwound and took me tightly by the hand
Ran your fingers up my arm like I'm your man
And if only for today, I am.

Get away
Escape
Do a minute, we can make it all day
Just nothing more than the shore under our feet
Capitulate
Mistakes
Admit we did it now we have it our way
Just you and me and the freedom to just be us.

You and me
free
to just be

us.

Get Away

Opportunity, just came a knocking on the door for you and me,
and then you, just took a peak before you turned around the key, so gingerly.

A delivery, signed on the line but opened outside in the street,
before you tried on for size the thing you barely took receipt, so gingerly.

It fits like a glove.

Dear me, how much more do you need, baby?
Whatever else could all this possibly mean?
It's just a fit, the likes you never have seen but in me.
Don't you lose me
Gingerly.

Won the lottery. Had all your numbers called up in a perfect streak
and now you fan a naked flame with the winning ticket you might keep, so gingerly.

How much is enough?

Gingerly

I feign an interest in another new, expectant face.
Lingering looks and all those come hither sounds.
Then when the bell is rung I hold the door and leave this place.
I don't say, "I love you," more, "I'll see you around."

Thrown back, alone, into the world
and I can't find a better girl.

Eyes wide @ midnight and a tear is running down my cheek.
I get apparitions and I'm lost in your smile.
I owned the world to have you led with me inside those sheets
and I lost the Earth to hear you changing your mind.

Thrown back, alone, into the world
and I can't find a better girl.

All have virtues, no doubt.
But I'd rather do without
if they ain't,
they ain't you...

Thrown back, alone, into the world
and I can't find a better girl.

Can't find a better girl.

There is no better girl...

...for me.

Better Girl

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