Sam Baardman

Lyrics

NOT LIKE WE DIDN’T KNOW

I’m tossing and turning, but it’s too hot to sleep
the ocean is calling but I’m afraid of the deep
we’ve been down on our knees, praying our souls to keep
while the walls shake and the weather explodes

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some things we do we don’t live to regret
I’ve made mistakes I don’t know about yet
we’ve still got some time, but we’re up to our necks
it’s not like we didn’t know

on a far southern island, warm wind through the trees
the beaches of paradise disappear by degrees
the seawalls are crumbling and the breakwaters churn
like an ice shelf breaking off at the pole

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INSTRUMENTAL VERSE

BRIDGE
years pass like water through cracks
we’ve seen what we’ve seen, and we all know the facts
the future is calling as we watch it run past
time is the one thing we can never get back

so take all these ashes of coffin and bone
take all your hopes and then take this song
the flood plain’s gonna spread out and wash us all home
as the dam breaks and the banks overflow

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