I shook from my dream I wasn't here 

To shake from my own sight 

Shake, ache from the light of everything 

Shake for that which sinks but can't drown 



Your face 

It will not be back again 

Oh fate, your face 

To summon it away is to back down 



I'm not so alone in here tonight 

The light shines off the pennies in the street 

And love feels such a plausible delight 

And now I've learnt the lyrics in full to Auld Lang Sine 



Oh fate, Your face 

It will not be back again 

Oh fate, your face 

To summon it away 



Oh fate, Your face 

It will not be back again 

Oh fate, your face 

To summon it away is to back down 



Now the wolves all howl 

And the birds all sing it: 

"He backed down"