Ilse DeLange - When lyrics

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Before me there is nothing

An empty space, an empty heart

Reaching for forever

Without a place to start

Before me there’s this angel

Who’s too afraid to cry

Her wings they have been broken

Help me teach her how to fly

Before me there’s an ocean

I’m familiar with it’s blue

It’s beyond my every notion

I know its depth is true

Before me there’s a mountain

I have to climb to see

But I know there will be waiting

A better view of you and me

When I’ve swam across the ocean

When I’ve climbed the mountaintop

When I’ve seen the angel flying

Then I can die to heal your heart

Above me there’s an endless sky

But the clouds are never still

In every way like you

Do we love the thing we kill

Can we fight the doubts we keep alive

Can we overcome all fear

Is the battle ever over

Is it ever really over

When I don’t try to stop the sky

When I let the clouds be free

When nothing scares me anymore

When I killed the doubt in me

When I’ve swam across the ocean

When I’ve climbed the mountaintop

When I’ve seen the angel flying

Then I can die to heal your heart

Before me there was nothing

Empty space, an empty heart

Reaching for forever

Without a place to start

Before me there’s this angel

Who was too afraid to cry

And Her wings they had been broken

And now I watch her fly