Auberge

and you my love


I do not sleep tonight
I may not ever
The sins of the past have come
See how they sit down together

Outside my window
Outside my door
And i know the reason what they've all come here for
You my love
My sweet, sweet love
Are what it's all because of

Surrender is easy
I know you do me no harm
But your innocence haunts me
The most fatal of charms

Oh i must have done some wrong
On a dark and distant day
For i know full and well tonight
This is how that i must pay

And you my love
My sweet, sweet love
Are what it's all because of
You my love
My sweet, sweet love
Are what it's all because of

i see a turning wheel
On a dusty track
Caught in the void and empty space
In between there and back
And the paradise of going somewhere
That's still so far away
Happy, boy you bet i am
Holding on to this smile for just as long as i can

Heaven

It's all bright in front
And it's all dark behind
Living for the now that's in between the bridges
And the signs
And getting there is still a long long way to go
While the others dream
This is all i officially need to know
Happy, boy you bet i am
Holding on to this smile for just as long as i can

Heaven

On the hard fast train
On the road to gain
Something gets right through to your telling bone
There's a sudden itch
An electric twitch
Sometimes i swear this body's got a mind of it's own

This is the naked truth
This is the light
There's only one place left to go
Auberge

You meet the silent type
On a windy trail
With a shiny cloak and an unseen silver dagger
You can talk till you ache
Give yourself one more break
You can tell by the look on his face that it just doesn't matter

This is the naked truth
This is the light
There's only one place left to go
Auberge

Give me a weekend
Give me a day
Don't like what i'm seeing though i hear what you say
Think with a dagger
And you'll die on your knees
Begging for mercy
Singing please mister please

This is the naked truth
This is the light
There's only one place left to go
Auberge

You can feel your nerve endings
They've been dead before today
You can feel them rising
Feel them rising all the way

You've got grease on your fingers
Oil on your face
Happy completely chasing the pace
Happy to find out even this late
You're not a number

There's a new sense of freedom
Come banging on your door
Deep down inside you
You've seem it all somewhere before
Somewhere in the past
Somewhere in a dream
It's got you completely
And you know what it means
Happy to find out even this late
You're not a number

There's a new sense of freedom
Come banging on your door
Deep down inside you
You've seem it all somewhere before
You've got grease on your fingers
Oil on your face
Happy completely chasing the pace
Happy to find out even this late
You're not a number

Every second counts
That's what he says
Every second counts
Every single day
All through the night time
And all through the day time
Can't let your world pass through and in to my way
Every second counts
He can't slow down
Every second counts
See him spin around
He's chasing his shadow
He's racing the wind
He tells us to follow
Where the ice is so thin

I hope you're holding on
I hope you're holding on
'cos every second counts

Time goes by
And every single tear
It must have well run dry
And the lonely nights
Become a strange accepted way

And the years go past
Just like the old song says
The pain with time has healed
It could not last

But oh a friend
Like a fool mentions your name

Sunny days, drunken nights
You smile and say it's all right
But oh the cold, cold rain
At the mention of your name

Forgive me please
If i shrug my shoulders
When i put my friends at ease
As i get older
It's not that i don't feel colder than before
Oh i've become so good at hiding
What i feel without confiding
It's still the same
At the mention of your name