You won’t always recognise when you’re meant to stay
Maybe the world you want has to slip away
You let it take a backseat, never know who you'll meet
Say something typical, like you’re miserable, wait until it’s over
And now you’re heart’s resigning, and you curse the timing
Wait for a miracle, something spiritual, let it be the cure
You won’t always recognise when you’re meant to stay
Maybe the world you want has to slip away
But secretly you were happier all along

Can’t you see it’s more than just ecstasy?
You’re falling in love with me, falling in love

I can’t give you what you need,
but something tells me we’re in too deep

Why can’t you see? Its clear to me
Something lingers in the sea between
Much more than this midwinter kiss
How could I have been so foolish to resist?

Can’t you see it’s more than just ecstasy?
You’re falling in love with me, falling in love

So I cherish bittersweet
Thoughts I know I’ll never speak

Why can’t you see? Its clear to me
Something lingers in the sea between
Much more than this midwinter kiss
How could I have been so foolish to resist?

Can’t you see it’s more than just ecstasy?
You’re falling in love with me, falling in love

Something’s telling me we’re both in too deep
You‘ve got eyes for only me, boy we’re meant to be

Why didn’t I see?

Am I the only one laughing?
Don’t tell me you’re listening

Waste a lifetime pretending,
Then pretty soon you’ll beg for forgiveness

You see the only one laughing
Is the only one I’ve been

The only one laughing
May well be the only road out of this

When you go home will you erase the night?
When you go home do you chase the light?

Let’s abandon all pretense if only for my amusement
Would it make any difference
When we spend all our lives reminiscing

When you go home will you erase the night?
When you go home do you chase the light?

So do I give in to what’s so tantalising?
I think I know the answer now
See I never knew that what once excited me
Wasn’t what’s meant to be
I dont got a clue, why are you
So subdued, is it something I said
I apologise for being so straight
I guess I just wonder why bother with anything
That ends up exactly the same…

So why am I the only one laughing?
I’m the only one laughing

I don’t need anything other than the words you said
In the nape of my neck
I don’t care if I don’t hear ever again
Yeah, I’m cancelling all my plans, they can wait
Tell my friends for get it, they're all replaced
I’m relishing your fingertips on my back

Take me home, promise I don’t need long
All I need is your liquorice kiss
Suddenly seventeen and whatever you want from,
Whoever you want from me
I’ve had enough of this unfulfilled prophecy
I gotta know your bitter and sweet
And in the dead of night I surrender myself to you

I curse the so-and-so
Whose lucky cupid’s bow your perfect lips best know
Cause you know I’m no good alone

Can’t a girl get her one wish?
Tell me I’m not being selfish
Why should I keep it quiet?
We’re just getting to the good bit

I don’t need anything other than this
I won’t take anything other than this

How can I control?
How can I let it go?
When all that shines blinds

Strap me to a carousel
Sat with me until night fell
Guess I wanted it for all it is
I cornered it, exhausted it

Then I knew that everything I’d ever wanted had passed
And I couldn’t help it
All alone in my head
All I ever wanted
All I ever felt was scared
Lost control of myself
Again and again

Something about the way you said
You felt me slipping through your hands
Left me wondering, tumbling

We laughed until our cheeks were numb
Paid no mind to what was yet to come
Even if it meant all our chips were spent
When there’s nothing left you can understand

Then I knew that everything I’d ever wanted had passed
And I couldn’t help but laugh
All alone in my head
All I ever wanted
All I ever felt was scared
Lost control of myself
Again and again

Spin for me
Do the thing for me
Spin for me
Take it all from me

I never should have let you in

She’s waiting, on what, she’s forgotten
But left to her own devices she won’t last too long
Trusts in her only instincts
But she won’t participate in such silly games
This I know

What’s a girl to do?
I know someone else’s news

Back in her empty apartment
She sits and contemplates what leads her to such frivolity
Clutching all that she yearned for
Now all that she wants to do is rip it up and start again

What’s a girl to do?
I know someone else’s news

And much to his amusement, she drips puddles on the stairs
He manufactures moments just to glimpse her unaware
Lingers at the party and pretends he doesn’t care
He’d give anything to breathe her air

I want you to wonder til the sky is red
I want you to hang on every word I said

It’s subliminal warfare
It’s a miserable affair
It’s a miracle we’re here
And it hurts

I’d follow you over every broken mirror
I’d swallow the ocean if it brought you here

Metaphysical nightmare
Just your typical self burn
Nothing clinical oh yeah
But it hurts

And I hate when you call cos it means that it’s over
I know what you’ll say, you can spare me your ‘sorry’s
I wait even so cos it’s better than nothing
I want you to know that I’ll take anything I can get

I guess you don’t really know me at all

All the time we thought was wasted,
All the while we had it all along
Floating on an endless sea
Your ripples always carried me to shore

If there’s a lesson then it’s lost on me
Your convoluted poetry
It goes on and on
Is there a question that I’m meant to see?
Your pages get so hard to read
They go on and on

Cos you are the star I’m chasing
So far, far apart, I’m here waiting
And I wanna lose it again

All the nights we stayed up stealing
All the hours tomorrow had to give

All I ever wanted was a chance to give you everything
But everything could never be enough

If there’s a lesson then it’s lost on me
Your convoluted poetry
It goes on and on
Is there a question that I’m meant to see?
Your pages get so hard to read
They go on and on and on and on and on and on and on

Cos you are the star I’m chasing
So far, far apart, I’m here waiting
And I wanna lose it again
Again and again

I dragged you in
Then you pushed me overboard
So I learnt to swim
You put an anchor on my chest

Like a staircase into the ocean
You only lead me to the depths of my despair
But still I follow
Wind in your meadow
Rather be perfect for anything but myself

Say the word and I let you go
Say the word and I won’t start crying
Say the word and I let you go
Maybe you need reminding
We were written as a tragedy
All that you can do is love and leave
I’ll carve your name on every tree

But I just need to know,
Were you ever gunna show up?
Yeah I just need to know,
Were you ever gunna show up?

Pull me close in a crowded room
Is this supposed to be satisfying?
Memorise every inch of you
The devastation is so inviting
Surrender to curiosity
You’re the wind, I’m a pile of leaves
If only for a day

I just need to know,
Were you ever gunna show up?
Yeah I just need to know,
Were you ever gunna show up?

Baby you’re gunna miss that plane
I know what you’re thinking
But we both know we can’t do this again
My heart is sinking

Don’t want you to go, but you gotta go

Maybe I want the part that bleeds,
Gimme the apple with the seeds
My secrets whispered in the trees,
Heard by nobody else but me baby

Seems I’m stuck with these pathetic dreams
Ones where you do more than talk to me
Meet you head first under sweaty sheets
With every kiss of yours stuck on repeat
Another something I don’t want to need

I’m not to blame, you’re in my chemistry
You’re in my veins you’re in my everything
Irresistible intensity

Said it would take time, well I took time, no such luck
No matter what I try, you’re staying on my mind, I’m wonderstruck
What am I meant to do? There’s never enough of you,
You’re my favourite drug
I guess I’m stuck

My heart it swells east and west
I've all but lost my innocence
Though it’s a fantasy I know
I’m gunna fade it out real slow

My heart it swells east and west
I’ve all but lost my innocence
Gotta get a grip I guess
Before I lose you
But until then

I’m still stuck with these pathetic dreams
Ones where you do more than talk to me
I know I’m not your usual pedigree
Is it so wrong to love you in my sleep?

Said it would take time, well I took time, no such luck
No matter what I try, you’re staying on my mind,
I’m wonderstruck
What am I meant to do? There’s never enough of you,
You’re my favourite drug
I guess I’m stuck