I Love You but I'm Lost - Aoife O'Donovan

Lost in the maze of the back streets I struggled Fighting my way through a whole lot of trouble Too many people were talking without moving their mouths So many days, so many nights, ever wonder By the lies that have stolen my thunder In the haze of my mind, all the wires were crossed I love you but I'm lost From a flame to the spark of an ember To a fire on the 5th of November We escaped from the light now we count the cost I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost Look at the marks on your arms, all the colors How you like to make them pay (how you like to make them pay) These are the reasons why your life is not quite what it was In a dream, at the edge of a river Where we swam, when I watched you shiver Came to life in my arms and then turned to dust I love you but I'm lost From a flame to the spark of an ember To a fire on the 5th of November We escaped from the light now we count the cost I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost All we needed was some time All we needed was some time All we needed was some time All we needed was some time I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost I love you but I'm lost

I've spent a lifetime of searching for that feeling You know That feeling of being out all day And finally making it back home You know That feeling of being on the brink of tears And finally getting to release Because they brought you in near But now I hold me close Now I'm the one that rids the world of demons Since you never really were into practicing what you preach I became everything I needed you to be You never did like when I'd ask you for things You weren't ready to give But I knew what you were on the brink of

We are passengers Traveling through the afterworld We can't know where we come from Pasiphae's just another moon Jupiter's by my side And we watch galaxies collide My apathy is losing ground Open my mouth (open mouth) make a sound Someone's in the rearview mirror, I see them pulling up beside me Humming like a throated sparrow, I wipe an old tear from my eye Just take the wheel and drive You're listening To the songs of celestial kings Coming down, you look for me Here I am, reaching perigee Someone's in the rearview mirror, I see them pulling up beside me Humming like a throated sparrow, I wipe an old tear from my eye Someone's in the rearview mirror, stay in your lane, you'll be fine Mercury is stuck in scorpio and the little dipper's dripping dry Take it in, open your heart, they're smiling, hold on Take it in, open your ears, they're laughing, hold on Take it in, open your mouth, they're singing, hold on We're passengers and the road is long

He had time on his hands He carried the world on his shoulders He said, "Meet me at the Hudson's edge Help me roll my boulder" Remember when I went down, running down Took the B61 across town To where he was waiting at the ice house Wish it was my house He took me out back for a drink Showed me the heart on his sleeve Love is a daily good thing I see it in your smolder But I can't feel it in my hands And I'm wringing them more now I'm older Remember when I went down, running down Took the B61 across town To where you were waiting at the ice house Wish it was my house You took me out back for a drink Showed me the heart on your sleeve Like ships in the night We go down without light We burn up all our anthracite And try to make a spark Find a crack and let it in It'll come, it might be dim Adjust your eyes, I know you can You'll find me in the dark How will I know if I'm the last one alive? I'm the last one For forty-one days and as many nights I'll be standing where we stood Under an indigo sky Watching flames jump from firewood

Oh now rosie You come home in the morning Got a child on your knee and your mother she looks on Says "i don't know that baby - don't know you why'd you fail me You left home seven years ago and i wore black for days" Prodigal daughter returns like a lamb to the slaughter I know forgiveness won't come easy, not for you Look at the child upon my knee she Has eyes of blue She resembles me resembling you Mama, listen Come into the kitchen Pour me some tea, let me sit at your feet and let me cry I need a little money I need love, and i need sunday Suppers here at home, don't want to be alone Let me stay Prodigal daughter returns like a lamb to the slaughter She yearns for the things that you taught her I know forgiveness won't come easy, not for me But i'll try to shut the past behind us, throw out the key Give me one more chance to make you see Prodigal daughter returns like a lamb to the slaughter Looking for something in the water To wash away the the pain She's drowning in the pain

Where are you? Are you there? Where are you? Are you there? Are you waiting at the golden stair? Can I be, can I be free? Will I be, am I soon to be free? Do you remember you loving me? In my quiet time I pray with you, I pray with you Deep in my heart Where every word I ever dreamed Is cross-stitched on my pillow Now, I lay me down to sleep Beneath the weeping willow Will you, you carry me? Will you, will you carry me again? Will you wrap me in your arms Like you did way back then? Hold me, hold me tight Show me the cheek by the firelight I'll know it's you by touch and sound and sight. I'll walk and run, peek in each room Look in, where have you gone? Where should I go? When every doorway leads to nowhere I am lost and broken Come for me and take me home And crack my heart wide open. (Who is there?) I look out (Who is there?) All looks the same But a mirror holds no claim (Who is there?) Who's standing here? (Who is there?) In the shadows Will he stay or will he run? I give him what he wants. Where should I, where should I be? Who's taken my life Are they looking for me?

In the magic hour, when the moon is low And the sky's the kinda blue that you think you know But you don't know Trickle is dark he runs around in All the fairy children they run around and All the other children they make no sound In that hour, if you're on the coast And the waves nip at your heels like a dog Pull me closer It's past the time of the dinner bell Before the shine of Orion's belt The sky's still bluer than a bluebell Oh when I go, won't you throw my bones to the fish And weigh my body down with sticks and stones Bury me now in the old graveyard where all my friends are Beneath the heather on the high hillside Death is a lonely bride In the magic hour, when the moonlight gleams And the sky's the kind of gray that you've never seen Till you've seen it Run down to the Virgin Mary's bank Where our mothers cried and our drank They all just tried to see just where this sank In that hour, if you listen hard You can hear my granddaddy singing far away Like an evening star Songs in an old island, songs bout being young again I wish I was young again Oh when I go, won't you throw my bones to the fish And weigh my body down with sticks and stones Bury me now in the old graveyard where all my friends are Beneath the heather on the high hillside Death is a lonely bride