Recovery - Frank Turner

Blacking in and out in a strange flat in east London

Somebody I don’t really know just gave me something

To help settle me down and to stop me from always thinking about you

And you know your life is heading in a questionable direction

When you’re up for days with strangers and you can’t remember anything

Except the way you sounded when you told me you didn’t know what I should do

It’s a long road up to recovery from here

A long way back to the light

A long road up to recovery from here

A long way to making it right

And I’ve been waking in the morning just like every other day

And just like every boring blues song I get swallowed by the pain

And so I fumble for your figure in the darkness just to make it go away

But you’re not lying there any longer

And I know that that’s my fault

So I’ve been pounding on the floor and

I’ve been crawling up the walls

And I’ve been dipping in my darkness with Serotonin-boosters

Cider and some kind of smelling salts!

It’s a long road up to recovery from here

A long way back to the light

A long road up to recovery from here

A long way to making it right

And on the first night we met you said, «Well darling, let’s make a deal

If anybody ever asks us let’s just tell them that we met in jail.»

And that’s the story that I’m sticking to like a stony-faced accomplice

But tonight I need to hear some truth if I’m ever getting through this

Yeah you once sent me a letter that said, «If you’re lost at sea

Close your eyes and catch the tide my dear and only think of me»

Well, darling, now I’m sinking, and I’m as lost as lost can be

And I was hoping you could drag me up from down here towards my recovery

If you could just give me a sign, just a subtle little glimmer

Some suggestion that you’d have me if I could only make me better

Then I would stand a little stronger as I walk a little taller

All the time

Because I know you are a cynic

But I think I can convince you

Yeah, cause broken people can get better if they really want to

Or at least that’s what I have to tell myself if I am hoping to

Survive!

It’s a long road up to recovery from here

A long way back to the light

A long road up to recovery from here

A long way to making it right

Darling, sweet lover, won’t you help me to recover?

Darling, sweet lover, won’t you help me to recover?

Darling, sweet lover, won’t you help me to recover?

Darling, sweet lover, one day this will all be over