The Frames - Santa Maria lyrics

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Santa Maria Let me off of this boat I'm sick of this ride The world is heading ever southward And I can't stay in here And you're lying awake Away on your side The feeling comes in waves and burns us And I don't wanna die From the slippery hands To the line of your throat The fever now consumes us both In a fire now we will go Santa Maria Why did you have to go? Santa Maria One day we will know In a bowing of heads and a passing of hands And all we thought they'd understand Is lost and they won't know And what have we left It's all that we've got There is no 'X' to mark our spot What's past is done and gone Santa Maria Why did you have to burn? Santa Maria One day you will learn