Frank Turner - Nights Become Days lyrics

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We saw in the dawn from the roof of the bar

When nights become days and you've gone too far

We listened to songbirds and rush hour cars and welcomed in the day

You said, “London in summertime is great,

On days like this I feel like I could escape

From things that I've done and mistakes that I've made.

I'd wash it all away”

We bathed like swimmers in the morning sun, waiting for our night to end

It felt like one of us would come down hard and one of us would start again

It started out curious, it started out fun

We smoked in the woods when we were young

And secretly slipped something under our tongues

And danced the night away

And everyone stumbles on old cocaine

It burns out the flesh, and it burdens the brain

‘Til brown comes and whisks away your pain and you find you've lost your way

We bathed like swimmers in the morning sun, waiting for our night to end

It felt like one of us would come down hard and one of us would start again

Sink in the river for your death

Swallow forever ‘til nothing's left

Sleep with the fishes, draw no breath

Take no rest

Oh my friend, look to the shore you'd see us here, we're waiting

Oh my friend, if you made for the shore, you'd see us here, we're all waiting

Don't sink in the river for your death

Could start fresh tomorrow, leave what's left

You could sleep in the shade, draw some breath

Please draw breath, please draw breath

Let's let nights become days

So come down kid the roofs aren't safe now

All my friends are waiting for you to get some rest