Summer Snow

Have you heard about the summer snow
When it falls on you your blood runs cold
But don’t you sweat your pretty skin
'Cos it melts away before it sinks in

And you dream about this very night
When the moon runs down the summer sky
Could it be the morning of the spring
When the sea runs dry we start to sing

Have you heard from the sky all about it
Down the river high tide flows around it
Through the whispers of pines I hear them sing
The more you love the more you live

Do you ever feel like going back
When nothing seemed to be a drag
You ran until your legs gave way
Then you cried and got back up again

And it’s real to think that I could fly
Across a broken bridge in the faded light
Never thought ahead of my two feet
Never had a care in the world you see

Have you heard from the sky all about it
Down the river high tide flows around it
Through the whispers of pines I hear them sing
The more you love the more you live

I was wading in the undertow
Set adrift with feather-weight-like bones
Unaware of where my heart would flow
I was wading in the undertow

Can’t touch the bottom
Set into a tumble
Waves that shake me out of my skin

Never been so easy
Losing my direction
My bearings have me south of home
But I’ve been wrong before

I was wading in the undertow
Set adrift with feather-weight-like bones
Unaware of where my heart would flow
I was wading in the undertow

And the water feels like a friend I’ve not seen in years
So familiar and strange at once
Like a lover who lost her touch

At first I was hesitant
now it seems oh so curious
How’d I wind up so far from home
When I barely had left the shore

I was wading in the undertow
Set adrift with feather-weight-like bones
Unaware of where my heart would flow
I was wading in the undertow

And I was dreaming of a love I lost
I feel asleep within an autumn flow
Never knew I’d drift so far from home

While I was wading in the undertow, undertow

I’ve got burning feet from hot asphalt
A voice within me tells me don’t go home
So I run until my feet give out
I jump a little higher to clear the ground

Every shadow of every girl
Every time I turn around I swear it’s her
I second guess my every move
I hold my breath in case I run into you

Oh I just can’t look
I can’t bear the thought of seeing you with someone new
Oh I swear I’m almost over you
Sometimes I find I switch off and I start to drive streets that no longer are my own
I keep driving your way home

You live across the park from me
in a place that steals a tip-toe view of the sea
Your sister came back home to stay
That day I packed my bags and went away

So I found a room in a leafy street
with a stranger and a traveler who both welcomed me
I try and remember my new way home
But habit sometimes steers me down your road

Oh I just can’t look
I can’t bear the thought of seeing you with someone new
Oh I swear I’m almost over you
Sometimes I find I switch off and I start to drive streets that no longer are my own
I keep driving your way home

And the day breaks slowly and I know
I can’t be this lonely for that long
Got to grow up show me how it’s done
‘Cos baby I’ve been trying with no luck

Oh I just can’t look
I can’t bear the thought of seeing you with someone new
Oh I swear I’m almost over you
Sometimes I find I switch off and I start to drive streets that no longer are my own
I keep driving your way home

Make me work
Make me sweat inside
Make me feel like I’m alive
Take this hurt, lady throw it in my face don’t let these bones slow you down

‘Cos I’m coming up strong
The grass sure does look greener I need a true believer in disguise
If I loving you wrong
Shortchanging and receiving
Girl you best be leaving me behind

‘Cos I’m over easy tonight

State the truth
Spit it out I’m waiting
Don’t leave me contemplating my own life
Save the bullshit for another man or lover
Don’t need a four leaf clover to decide

‘Cos I’m coming up strong
The grass sure does look greener I need a true believer in disguise
If I loving you wrong
Shortchanging and receiving
Girl you best be leaving me behind

‘Cos I’m over easy tonight

Who wants a lady without the thrill of chasing
Like taking cotton candy from a child
Too many answers, when all we need is questions
You ain’t giving this a chance to burn it’s light

‘Cos I’m coming up strong
The grass sure does look greener I need a true believer in disguise
If I loving you wrong
Shortchanging and receiving
Girl you best be leaving me behind

‘Cos I’m over easy tonight

I stepped out from the dark today
Into the world and I felt the light on my face
I kept trying to be the brave
When all I needed was time to be afraid

You were firing shots in the dark
Aimless and bewildered by the loss
You felt the blood run from your heart
Though the beating never stopped
Oh the beating never stopped

And even when chances are thin
Don’t surrender you can lay your claims within
Please remember that you and you alone
Burn just like embers
Don’t surrender

I drew breath from a new found fight
It gave me the strength
I needed to come back to life
For every love that has expired
There’s a universe waiting to collide

And even when chances are thin
Don’t surrender you can lay your claims within
Please remember that you and you alone
Burn just like embers
Don’t surrender

And I knew it all along
What’s worth having takes this long
No one goes it on their own just yet

And even when chances are thin
Don’t surrender you can lay your claims within
Please remember that you and you alone
Burn just like embers
Don’t surrender

We face this fate forever
We march alone together
We’re working backwards like a cigarette burns
When our kingdoms come
When we just can’t run
We face the music and resolve our futures

When we were us
Never felt so hopeless
Now I see

We were doomed right from the start
And we never stood a chance
Honey, you tear me apart
And I’m buried deep below this avalanche

Feel it getting closer like a rolling stone
Wraps itself around your aching bones and
Depending on your strength you’ll find a tailwind
But nothing feels like the rapid flow

And see us run
Never felt so hopeless
Now I know

We were doomed right from the start
And we never stood a chance
Honey, you tear me apart
And I’m buried deep below this avalanche

Ask for a second run to fix this love undone
Give her time to let her make her own mind
One can only wait sleeping with blind faith
Before you learn to live without her needless love

Never felt so rough let her go
And give up I should’ve known

We were doomed right from the start
And we never stood a chance
Honey, you tear me apart
And I’m buried deep below this
We were doomed right from the start
And we never stood a chance
Honey, you tear me apart
And I’m buried deep below this avalanche