Shooting the Statues - Amine Bouhafa

So goodnight my dear Hope you're feeling well Hope your're feeling very clear In this song and rhyme Thoughts of changes that Keep ourselves intact And yes It's hard to fake but I'm faltering In the steps I'm about to take I am sure it's true What is all for me is much the same to you If all the statues in the world Would turn to flesh with teeth of pearl Would they be kind enough to comfort me The setting sun is set in stone And it remains for me alone To carve my own and set it free So we wait and see How this backward chapter reads In verse inadvertently And it feels like fading light But that's all that's left Only what's left is right If all the statues in the world Would turn to flesh with teeth of pearl Would they be kind enough to comfort me The setting sun is set in stone And it remains for me alone To carve my own and set it free Jumping from a balloon A carried aloft by a parachute in June Twisting round and round Well I hope the ground is what you find The setting sun is set in stone And it remains for me alone To carve my own and set it free

Hold me close when I am losing control You don't know how fragile is my soul Hold me close when I am losing you I'm drifting in core of our mind I'm shifting the tune I set a new melody in my head I'm repeating at every turn The tune I've settled down Preventing myself not to drown Hold me close when I am losing control You don't know how fragile is my soul Hold me close when I am losing you I can hear the harmony Its distant tone But I change my direction I'm floating away Sing me, sing me a song Your voice is what I have longed Then lead me, lead me to your boat Hold me close when I am losing control You don't know how fragile is my soul Hold me close when I am losing control Before they will catch me with morbid patrol Now I'm standing alone I hear the dissonance, I'm draining below And it's smashing my ears These magic pills are my pioneers Hold me close when I am losing control You don't know how fragile is my soul Hold me close when I am losing control Before they will catch me with morbid patrol Hold me close and watch how I'll die

You and I were two old and tortured souls Repaired by a love of broken things In a life, just some bodies growing old No fear of the end, of anything We're just ordinary people, you and me Time will turn us into statues, eventually We got by, though we never needed much A sliver of hope, no diamond rings We got high, it was heaven it was hell Flying over them, with broken wings We're just ordinary people, you and me Time will turn us into statues, eventually Oh-oh Just two ordinary people, you and me Time will turn us into statues, eventually Our bones forever in stone Monuments of life To dust, as everything must We fade away in time Oh-oh We're just ordinary people, you and me Time will turn us into statues, eventually Oh-oh Just two ordinary people, you and me Oh-oh Time will turn us into statues, eventually

My love is stronger than yours It's stronger than yours It's stronger than yours My love is stronger than your hate will ever be And my faith is deeper than yours It's deeper than yours It's deeper than yours My faith is deeper than your doubt will ever be We move through the world like a Shooting stars across the sky Splitting through the darkness Putting the light into their eyes Oooh, oooh, oooh, oh-oh-oh And my laughter is louder than yours It's louder than yours It's louder than yours My laughter is louder than your shouting will ever be And my dancing is better than yours It's better than yours It's better than yours My dancing is better than your marching will ever be We move through the world like a Shooting stars across the sky Splitting through the darkness Putting the light into their eyes Oooh, oooh, oooh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oooh We move through the world like a Shooting stars across the sky Splitting through the darkness Putting the light into their eyes We move through the world like a Shooting stars across the sky Splitting through the darkness Putting the light into their eyes Oooh, oooh, oooh, oh-oh-oh Oooh, oooh, oooh, oh-oh-oh My love is stronger than yours It's stronger than yours It's stronger than yours My love is stronger than your hate will ever be

There's a boy across the street He's just trying to find his way Coming over to my house I see him every day His mum and dad are busy They never have the time To listen to his feelings What's playing on his mind All the children stand like statues On the street where I was born It's a street where nothing changes But the road where I come from Now the cherry blossom's falling And the nights are drawing in Oh, I'm standing here, I'm frozen As the world goes 'round again The playground bell keeps ringing A moving van appears A change about to happen That we haven't seen for years A family's moving in I never thought I'd see On the street where nothing changes A girl that looks like me I watch her from across the street I don't know what to say Time will tell if we'll be friends But that's another day All the children stand like statues On the street where I was born It's a street where nothing changes But the road where I come from Now the cherry blossom's falling And the nights are drawing in Oh, I'm standing here, I'm frozen As the world goes 'round again Don't change nothing at all Street lights lead me back home All the children stand like statues On the street where I was born It's a street where nothing changes But the road where I come from Now the cherry blossom's falling And the nights are drawing in Oh, I'm standing here, I'm frozen As the world goes 'round again Now the cherry blossom's falling And the nights are drawing in Oh, I'm standing here, I'm frozen As the world goes 'round again And we all go 'round again