Somebody stop her, the lifter, the runner The girl with the gold in her mouth They caught her at london, waterloo station Strung up on a ferris wheel She used to lose pageants, pick of the litter The newspapers screamed from their racks Pictures at seven, nineteen-eighty-something The waltz on her father's shoes No more losing the war, karen No more losing the war, karen But i really knew her in an after-pub closing way Falling down, crawling drunk Laughing like children with sugared-up gullets I rue this day No more losing the war, karen. No more losing the war. Got me all frustrated In an old-fashioned way. Easy does it, rider I've had a long, long day No more losing the war, karen No more losing the war, karen

Standing in the doorway, the money's running low Spent it all the week before in the Gulf of Mexico But I got a lead on Monday, that something's coming soon It's gonna get us back to the golden days And the carefree afternoons So get your things together, we're getting out of here tonight On a desert road that pulls us west, underneath the blue moonlight Oh, this time will be different, this time we'll make it last No more worry 'bout the future, no more running from the past Are you ready to go again? We'll push on to the end Watch the fire burn, see how far we go No more worry 'bout the future, no more running from the past No more worry 'bout the future, no more running from the past No more worry 'bout the future, no more running from the past

I drove up to the city at night And found the place where you grew up And then where you stayed And then we walked around And stayed up late Under city lights And I spent the night Next to you in the house where you grew up Next to you I miraculously woke up In your parents' house I lied in bed with you I went out to feel alone there I went back to wipe it clean I took the lights and radio towers out of my dreams We went all the way up to the small town where I'm from With foggy air And the wind And the mountain top And we clung to rocks And we looked off You held my hand You almost got to start feeling me I finally felt like I was breathing free And under swaying trees, we fell asleep and had the same dream The stars were bright We dream the same every night On my island home I spent some time with you I went back to feel alone there I went back there by myself And gave up on everything that we'd felt We found a precious place in the sand Right out in the wind And lied under a blanket And heard the furious sound The roar of waves The pounding surf Two bodies on the earth It was intense just getting to be there next to you And you were trying to get me then And I was happy to let you in I went back and wished I hadn't I went back and felt regret I went to the beach and I stared west Every night when the sun went down In the town where we live The empty streets were lit up By reflected light From a distant sun Bouncing off a glowing ball of rock We just lied on the roof and watched The moon The moon The blue light of the moon We didn't talk and silently we both felt powerful Like the moon my chest was full Because we both knew we're just floating in the same space over molten rock And we felt safe and discovered that our skin is soft There's nothing left except certain death And that was comforting under the moon I went out last night to forget that I went out and stared it down But the moon just stared back at me And in its light, I saw my two feet on the ground