Time On Her Side - Future Islands

The sea was large today

Just as any other day

But something broke in me

Watching on this winter’s eve

Like a voice, that I’d been trying to hide

Pulled me close

And out into the undertow

I can’t beat it

Oh!

The sirens sing me home

Just can’t release it

I didn’t have the strength to go

She’s a garden rose and blossoms head to toe

And even when she leaves her golden shadow stings

I can’t beat it

Every time she goes, cuts me even deeper

If only I’d the strength to go

Like she does

But she’s got time on her side

And she’s free to decide

Because she’s got time on her side

To be young is divine

And scaling the dunes to sea

Where the white wall feeds

Gets me no closer to peace

From the grips that she holds on me

Oh!

I can’t beat it

Every time she goes

Cuts a lil deeper

So the wound will never close

If only I could beat it

She wouldn’t look away for woe

But it finds me when I’m sleeping

And wakes me in a fevered low

Like she does

But she’s got time on her side

And she’s free to decide

Because she’s got time on her side

She’s so free, it’s sublime

I just wonder if I’m on her mind

As she’s on mine, all the time

And I want her to know that I’m on her side

I’m on her side

The sea was large today

Just as any other day