Music - Euan Burton (MCPS & PRS)
Lyrics - Euan Burton and Jenn Butterworth
lyrics
Open water,
See no shore but you try to swim.
Tide’s changing, waging
Wars on a life that is yet to begin.
Chapters, pages,
We were wrong.
Unforgiven, histories,
Sold as new that were there all along.
Life's opening,
Swallowing you, nearly giving in.
Searching for way to find the ground,
Start again.
Open water,
Try to choose, to sink or swim.
Current’s taking over,
Either way you cannot win.
Faces, places,
Old and new, still together as one.
Another broken memory,
They can try, it can't be undone.
Write another one,
New pages, the start of a another song.
New stages, a life we carry on.
Another mountain’s climbed to the sky,
We're falling down, the other side.
Falling down, falling down,
Who knows where, who knows where?
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