Words and music by Roddy Frame



Born on a junk heap in the sea

Cursed with the notion to be free

White and bright and twenty one

But in my heart I'm on the run

I kissed the lips of eau de vie

I tasted sugar and debris

But in the early morning light

I saw the day destroy the night



Life is a long walk home



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Was it the moonlight

That left you gasping

Grasping, something, beyond a boy or a girl

Just let it all blow

Untie your heartstrings

No, don't cling to this phenomenal world



I lost my senses in the spring

Of someone's life that I left behind

And though I search through everything

A sense of loss is all I find

Her face is every work of art

She haunts the city high and low

But I can't live inside her heart

And so I had to let it go



And make my heart my home



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