TOM CHURCH - WATERWAY

Lyrics

Empty threats fall on deaf ears,
We’ve heard this all before,
I thought the time and the space would be honest. 
Vague regrets from the better years,
Forget the fact it was never clear,
Touch the breaking point you’ll hold on longest. 

I’ve been staring at your green eyes,
Blind to moments that were never mine,
Captivated by what we might have lost. 
Your diamond eyes make the grass shine,
You said you missed me for the last time,
I’m holding on to all this ever was. 

One more time, 
I’m fooled by my illusions in the knowledge that she won’t let me down. 
One more line,
Naively drawn in boldness of the moments I don’t have you around. 
You’ve been drawing these lines,
All over your words and you know,
I should ask you for a little time,
You don’t want me to so I won’t. 

Cold resolve enough to take the place of your apologies,
But it crashes down as the distance fades away.
I know we left everything unsaid with no stricter promises,
But there was still something there to break. 

Sheltered hearts from a fragile storm,
Waking up to falser dawns,
When I’ve not slept I’m too tired to pretend. 
These strings jaded and my words worn,
Conversation keeps my conscience torn,
Take this heart that I’m too quick to lend,
If you just tell me when. 

One more time, 
I’m fooled by my illusions in the knowledge that she won’t let me down. 
One more line,
Naively drawn in boldness of the moments I don’t have you around. 
You’ve been drawing these lines,
All over your words and you know,
I should ask you for a little time,
You don’t want me to so I won’t. 

One more time, 
I’m fooled by my illusions in the knowledge that she won’t let me down. 
One more line,
Naively drawn in boldness of the moments I don’t have you around. 
You’ve been drawing these lines,
All over your words and you know,
I should ask you for a little time,
You don’t want me to so I won’t.

Lines We Draw (Acoustic)

Lyrics

Breathe out now watch the windows take the fragile heart you left behind 
Living kills you  but if this is all that we know shouldn't we be feeling far too kind. 
Complicating easy conversations just to keep me insane and captivated by these words can't we just stand in the rain,
I've been waiting for a vacant smile and crowded eyes.
Excavating memories of teasing infidelities and looking for the flaws in our tears and the truth in our lies. 

I've been yearning for the thrill of living through the night,
Praying for the beauty of a broken heart.
To feel the shelter and the glory of a loveless time,
Crashing down coming to terms with where we aren't. 

When we've got words just for the father where do we turn if we can't let them find his confidence,
Compelled to let the unforgiving answers slip away, 
But more determined to cling to my  cowardice. 
Vulnerable I criticise, helplessly imagining the cold hard grass and lying round on sunny winter days,
With a Vacant smile and crowded eyes, she tells me she's just not sure and that's everything I wanted her to say. 

It keeps me yearning for the thrill of living through the night,
Praying for the beauty of a broken heart.
To feel the shelter and the glory of a loveless time,
Crashing down coming to terms with where we aren't. 

When we’ve got words just for the father where do we turn if we can’t let them find his confidence,
Hope that thrives in vacillating hard enough to catch and tie to affection that seems destined to regress.
Sleeping dogs won't lie, but we won't let them if we don't want more than this. 
Don't resolve my restless mind, let me cling on to my fruitful emptiness. 

I’ve been yearning for the thrill of living through the night,
Praying for the beauty of a broken heart.
To feel the shelter and the glory of a loveless time,
Crashing down coming to terms with where we aren't.

Tom Church