Violent Sun

Violent arms

Violent sun

Violent arms

Violent sun

And you realise you don't know how long

That the river has been sweeping you along

Past the dreams and the colour and the moment

And the way the light is entering your eyes

And the problem that you're having with your mind

And the tears and the venom and the plasma

And the patterns in her rippling hair

Are collapsing into animal prayer

And you might get out if only you could read them

And you heard it from the whispering wall

Like the miracle of anything at all

There's a way that you don't ever have to be

A lunatic or an error

Or a prisoner of your terror

I'm too old to be crying out

I wanna be there

When the wild wave comes

And we're swept away

I wanna be there

When the wild wave comes

For us

And she takes you in her violent arms

And you stare into the violent sun

And you know this will be gone in the morning

And the flesh in the machinery jams

And they come to take the rest of our hands

But the feeling of her skin on your fingers

And you can barely make a silhouette out

And you open your ventriloquist mouth

And the words are wrong but in the right order

And you know it has to happen tonight

And you feel it for the very first time

And she's saying you don't always have to be

A lunatic or an error

Or a prisoner of your terror

I'm too old to be crying out

I wanna be there

When the wild wave comes

And we're swept away

I wanna be there

When the wild wave comes

For us

When the wild wave comes

(I'm on my knees)

Hey, I wanna be there

When the wild wave comes

And we're swept away

I wanna be there

When the wild wave comes

For us

Then she takes you in her violent arms

And you stare into the violent sun

And the words are wrong but in the right order

And she takes you in her violent arms

And you stare into the violent sun

And you know this will be gone in the morning