Books With Broken Spines

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United Kingdom
2003

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"Books With Broken Spines"
Vulnerable

Music & Lyrics: Ray Holt, Andrew Donaldson & Martin Faulkner

Lyrics

Forget the bright lights and the city
They're nothing to you now
(I say to you)
Forget the mourning and the pity
They're nothing to you now
(I say to you)
Forget the days that turned the darkness bright
(I say to you)
Forget the dawns and all the darkness
They're nothing to you now
(I say to you)

You'll never stare into an open grave
Six feet deep - it's the awful distance
These faded footprints mark potential's waste
I held it all, I held it all

These ornaments are not reminders
Just markers of the kind of life you led
A lifetime of clutter on the bookshelf
The broken spines a trail of what you read
There's photographs we'll never understand
And it's too late to ask
And all these things are just reminders
That all of your future is in the past

You'll never stare into an open grave
Six feet deep - it's the awful distance
These faded footprints mark potential's waste
I held it all, I let it slip away

I let it slip away
I let it slip away
Yet I'm still here
I'm just here

There's part of me gone, leaving me numb
So I cling to all these feelings
'Cause daydreams are sweet, but oh so brief
And they have lost their meaning

This cold despair time won't repair
This is the endless season
Just part of the grief that cuts so deep
So I cling to all these feelings
All of these feelings


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