Barry Adamson - Come Hell Or High Water lyrics

rate me

Libertine the name that falls from her lips and splashes on my shoes like sad beads of rain, penetrating the soil and making ready the harvest of our love.

And me?

I got a bug to squash

This tale's been told a thousand times, so I thought that I shoulda known better

Than to supplicate a girl, on pedestal shoes

No pants and a real tight sweater

I'm laughin' too!

But it's from my embarrassment that I tremble

When she saw that I was just a hopeless imitation of the man that I most resemble

And the chords ring so familiar, to a man who's heard it all before

And the melody will forever linger, like perfume in a hardware store

It ain't that I seek loneliness …

I just down right fail to understand

How a customary girl, on pedestal shoes

Can all but destroy one man

I wish I'd licked her to the ground

But I swallowed my tongue instead

Watched her from the shadows with a hideous frozen grin

While she carved her name in my head

Some folks talk ‘round the way,

sayin', “B, you really got it made.”

But I crawl ‘round my room from night ‘till day

Wonderin' if your star will ever fade

And I'll be here, come hell or high water

Love you like you're my daughter

Buy you new shoes ‘cause I oughta

And only sometimes will my thoughts turn blue, like the skies

And every word is you

(Instrumental)

Now,

West of Bloody 16th street,

Are the remains of a man who was broken

By the rapture of a girl, on pedestal shoes

And man I tell ya,

That girl wasn't jokin'

And I've killed my mind a thousand times

Now my thoughts stay firmly in the present

But there's a kinda ugly breach, like a ocean in my soul

Keeps on naggin' me - so incessant

And the silence is louder than a H-Bomb

That explodes when I close my eyes

Sendin' shockwaves to the town you're from

In the hope that you'll stir - come alive

And I'll be here, come hell or high water

Love you like you're my daughter

Buy you new shoes ‘cause I oughta

And only sometimes will my thoughts turn blue, like the skies

And every word is you

Like the skies

And every word is you

Like the skies

And every word is you

Like the skies

And every word is you

(Thanks to chip for these lyrics)<br />

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Thanks to razvan