Do as done, after there was nothing left to be,Â
Well turned out I’d been following him, and he’d been following me.Â
Ten thousand years and you’re still on your own,Â
Don’t you love, don’t you love me that way.Â
Trying to find, oh an emotion you cannot deny,Â
I will not have him treat me this way.
And if it comes to the rain, just be glad you’ll smile again,
Because so many don’t, and so many go unnamed.Â
And you will never feel quite clean, in this new skin that you have grown,Â
Until your old and broken bones are laid into their resting place, just like the rest of human race.Â
I’ll jump into your grave and die, and on my words you’ll give up your whole life for me,Â
And you’ll be reborn bigger and stronger, and less alive...
Oh you crawled out of the sea,
Straight into my arms, straight into my arms.Â
Sleep will not come because sleep does not will it,Â
And I don’t believe him, morning is mocking me.Â
I woke up and he was screaming, I’d left him dreaming.Â
I roll over and shake him tightly, and whisper “If they want you, then they’re gonna have to fight me.”Â
You sat alone, under bellowing sky.Â
If I feel God judging me, I fell into the water, and now I’m free.
I am honest now, not a shouter, I am reformed, forgiven and reborn.Â
And you’ve been busy but you’ve missed me, and I plagued your mind.Â
You will never go outside, you will never go back to being blind.Â
There’s a boy across the river, but alas I cannot swim.Â
Now never will I get to put my arms around him.Â
There’s a life across the river that was meant for me.Â
Instead I live my life in constant misery.Â
There’s a life across the river, but I do not see,
Why I should please those, who will never be pleased.Â
-- Poem written with the lyrics from every song from the wonderful Laura Marling’s album “Alas, I Cannot Swim” --