See It So Clear - Tom Chaplin

There’s a photograph in celluloid

Some little boy

A sweet, sad paragraph

I wrote in the school magazine

And if I close my eyes

Then it all comes back to me

Under sunny skies

When I was seventeen

But all these solid certainties

They had sadness underneath

And all these happy memories

They have spaces in between

Oh I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows, the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it’s never alone

It was buried so deep but

I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it’s never alone

Now there’s nothing to fear

I see it so clear

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I’m watching me

Why I’ll never know

What’s dead and gone

Keeps holding on

I try to shut my mind

But it still comes back at me

Under different skies

Now I’m thirty-three

When all life’s solid certainties

Have been shaken to the core

No defeats, no victories

I won’t fight it anymore

Oh I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it’s never alone

It was buried so deep but

I see it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it’s never alone

Now there’s nothing to fear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear

I see it so clear

See it now, see it now

Look back and see

From shadows the loneliness reaching for me

I will give it a home so it’s never alone

Now there’s nothing to fear

I see it so clear