A Continent Away - 1984

The nice nest we’ve built

Now that mess it lights it up

What we’ve done wrong

Don’t you feel we’re on the run

I don’t know why we try again

Questions/answers always the same

It’s gotta be done

This split of our tongues

My liver is flooded

By alcohol and tears

Oh I won’t go home

Before you get out of me

In the streets of a new town

Everything seems a bit more

Manageable, above the loss

Oh the guilt is far from home

Blink at noon, I miss our room

Our mouths are so close and yet our souls

Are a continent away

There was a nest of ours

There were messes for hours

I regret both are gone

Our hugs in the dawn

I feel drowned in ether

I feel drowned in ether

In salty waves I lie

A lovely way to hide

If I sometimes feel my heart sinks

I know my heart forgets too

The more I age, the less I think

The less I think, the more I fool

Many lives that pierced me through

Many eyes printed too

On mine

They’ll fade, not yours

Blink at noon, I miss our room

Our mouths are so close and yet our souls

Are a continent away

I know you’ll shiver again but I hold you