Juliet Turner - On Short Loan Only lyrics

rate me

on short loan only.<br />

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i have no breath left, perhaps i'm drowning.<br />

for sure there are a lot of tears, but i'm not crying.<br />

funny that, being dead.<br />

that i might weep for love, but only in my head.<br />

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they take the tray bring round the tea, customs calling.<br />

they've ribboned off a room for eating in and another room for grieving.<br />

whiskey burns, sheds the coats,<br />

but the ones who need it most are too ragged in the throat.<br />

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chorus.<br />

and they would have me sing of you that you were just on loan, another flower in the basket of the master.<br />

but if i bite the tongue that speaks of you and i change your room around,<br />

will i forget you, will i forget you any faster?<br />

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you were a weight upon their shoulders, they carried you so far.<br />

too big for sympathy at school, a bright and lawless spark.<br />

they're building up your image now and they're playing by their empty social rules.<br />

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chorus<br />

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and they would have me sing of you, that you were just on loan.<br />

another flower in the basket of the master.<br />

but if i bite the tongue that speaks of you, and i change your room around,<br />

will i forget you, will i forget you any faster?<br />

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sometimes i dream that you are back.<br />

imagine what it would be like,<br />

to see how'd we spend the day,<br />

but i think we'd still only fight.<br />

you haven't gone beyond my love, beyond my care.<br />

there has to be a heaven somewhere.<br />

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its good to be remembered, but i know you'd hate their show,<br />

and i wish before you left that they had thought to let you know.<br />

its good to be remembered, but i shouldn't have let you go,<br />

and i wish before you left that i had only let you know.