Boats Against The Current (Toe Rag Studios Version)

Run your hands along my arm

inside my jacket sleeve

Let your tears fall in your smile

I can hardly breathe

With my hands upon your hips

You took our flag down to half mast

When we turned to face each other

We were already in the past

The emptiness fills me

cnd it's tidal like the Thames

If the numbness ever leaves me

I won't want this pain to end

Is it possible to change this

What would you like to ask

Is there a river we can follow

Ceaselessly towards the past

I was blind to all those candles

Heard the music felt your dress

I shut my eyes your lips you gave to me

For one last sweet caress

Don't you give our love a eulogy

I can't watch you close the door

It was winter time the first time

But time's not been stopped before

You said you dreamed that I was holding you

I kissed your eyes, your lips, your hair

You cried that was my goodbye to you

I only wish babe I'd been there

Remember when I ran away to Dublin

You wrote and told me to stay strong

You've only been gone a few hours

ut they're tortuously long

The chalice holds the poison

cnd it's fermented by our fear

Put our love into a four foot hole

c foot for every year

Yesterday I had you but it would be the last

The doors are locked and they've been bolted

It's trapped us in the past

I can picture you so perfectly

Your hat down to your shoes

You said I've never been an adult

cnd not belonged to you

Remember Magheramore that time

I held you safe in both my hands

But the tide was unrelenting

It breaks the rocks down into sand

We didn't wait to hear the bell this time

We knew it had just been rung

Our cobbled streets they were alive