LIFEBOATS

by Snow Patrol

Hold on, hold on

Let me get the words out before I burst

There's no truth at all

Poking at the giant eyes of ancient Gods


Cool heads have failed

Now it's time for me to have my turn

Kiss me, kiss me

Life is way too short to scream and shout


Flashed up in my wildest dreams the dark red blood streams

Stretching out like vast cracked ice

The veins of you, the veins of me like great forest trees

Pushing through and on and in


Gliding like a satellite in the broken night

And when I wake you're there, I'm saved

Your love is life piled tight and high, set against the sky

That seems to balance on it's own


Sing out, sing out

The silence only eats us from the inside up

I meant no harm

But I only get to say these words too late


Wake up, wake up

Dreaming only leads to more and more nightmares

Snap out of it

You said it in a way that showed you really cared


Flashed up in my wildest dreams the dark red blood streams

Stretching out like vast cracked ice

The veins of you, the veins of me like great forest trees

Pushing through and on and in


Gliding like a satellite in the broken night

And when I wake you're there, I'm saved

Your love is life piled tight and high set against the sky

That seems to balance on it's own


Send your lifeboats out for me

Send your lifeboat out

Send your lifeboats out for me

Send your lifeboat out


Send your lifeboats out for me

Send your lifeboat out

Send your lifeboats out for me

Send your lifeboat out



From the 2008 album, A Hundred Million Suns