Back To The Quay

You hid as your mother

Sunk into her bed

Told me “don’t you let me live like that

Just shoot me in the head

I didn’t have the strength to let you go

Only now that you’re gone has it

Occurred to me to let you know

Know

That you...

Were everything to me, like

My reason to breathe, like

My lighthouse out in the sea

There to lead me

Safely back to the quay

Mmm x 2

All at once my future

Doesn’t seem to bear so well

What the hell am I gonna do now?

Cos for all that you could tell

I could be an astronaut

Or the streets could be my home

I could write a song about

How your absence makes me feel so alone

Ahhh

And you...

Were everything to me, like

My reason to breathe, like

My lighthouse out in the sea

There to lead me

Safely back to the quay

Mmmm x 2