So lie with me and be my love just for now 
Stay with me all through the night 
Be as close to me as you can be 
Til morning sets you free 


When you saw me I was broken, 
I was scattered in the dust 
Like the way you feel sometimes, 
when you feel too much 
You put your hands around my face 
like a circle 'round the sun 
When I thought that it was finished 
it had only just begun 

So lie with me and be my love just for now 
Stay with me all through the night 
Be as close to me as you can be 
Til morning sets you free, again 

You shine across the morning 
as I turn to face the east 
You told me how to give away 
things never meant to keep 
Your love is rolling like a wave 
that breaks right over me 
One hand can hold the ocean 
but will never stop the sea 

So lie with me and be my love just for now 
Stay with me all through the night 
Be as close to me as you can be 
Til morning sets you free 

Your skin it looks so golden 
standing naked in the sun 
Your soul it feels so holy 
as close as the earth can come 
and the wind can break your bones 
I'm wondering how you're doing now 
when you are alone 

So lie with me and be my love just for now 
Stay with me all through the night 
Be as close to me as you can be 
Til morning sets you free, once again, once again

ALTERNATE LYRICS: 

He was just a prisoner 
Prisoner of your pain 
Whose sentence was to serve you 
Let you love again 
If you go away, 
He'll still be singing in his chains 
Behind the walls of knowing 
There was no such thing as blame 

Refrain 

Deeper than the ocean 
Wider than the sea 
The loneliness you harbored from 
A love that was deceived 
How did you ever know 
What the answer couldn't be 
The dying's almost easier 
Than trying to believe again 

Refrain

Your eyes they are so empty now 
So pale in the sun 
Your heart it is so weary 
From not wanting anyone 
With every breath you take 
It's for the love that didn't come 
Still longing for the day 
You thought your life had just begun 

Refrain