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Paperlate, oh I'm sorry but there is no one on the line

Paperlate, oh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news



Ooh it's too easy to live like clockwork

Tick tock watching the world go by

Any change would take too long

So dry your eyes

Ooh it's too easy to live in a cold sweat

Just sitting dripping in pools below

You can wipe your face

Kill the pain

But the fever won't go, no no



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Pull it together now

Put your feet back on the ground

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Ooh don't worry now

You're not alone

Look around you 

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Ooh I'm sorry but there's no one on the line

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Ooh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news



Ooh it's too easy to compute your future

Taking no risks and playing too safe

Any change would take too long

So dry your eyes

Ooh it's too easy to talk about rocking the boat

Making changes and changing track

But you'd better not lock that door

Cos you'll be coming back



Ah you're breathing faster

Silence the only sound

There's no need to be nice on the way up

Cos you're not coming down



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Ooh I'm sorry but there's no one on the line

Paperlate

Oh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news...

What was it you said to me

Back in the days when things looked fine 

'bout how we would be together 

Until we left the earth behind 

Oh, it's funny how things can change

Cos there was a time I thought I'd be the one 

Who'd leave and start again 

But now I'd stay forever 



Ooh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water

Just sunk in the night

And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta

Ah, the end of a life

Or maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back

You might recall

Now did I act carefully, did I do right?

Or were we meant to be, all of our lives

In love and harmony, all of our lives?



So now, take my hand

Come, hold me closely

As near as you can

Believing all that we could be

And all that we have been

And all that we are



Everyday seems summertime 

The river flow with wine 

Ooh when you were here with me 

I wish we'd stayed that way forever 



Oh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water

Just sunk in the night

And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta

Ah, the end of a life

Or maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back

Well you might recall

Now did I act carefully, did I do right?

Or were we meant to be, all of our lives

In love and harmony, all of our lives?



So now, take my hand

Come, hold me closely

As near as you can

Believing all that we could be

And all that we have been

And all that we are



Oh my hopes were as the leaves upon the water

Ah, sunk in the night

And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta

Oh, the end of a life

And maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back

Oh, you might recall

Now did I act carefully, did I do right?

Or were we meant to be, all of our lives

In love and harmony, all of our lives?



So now, take my hand

Come, hold me closely

As near as you can

Believing all that we could be

And all that we have been

And all that we are

Ma would never say what happened

And we knew better than push too hard

We knew we had all the chores to tend to

Like fixing fences and helping her

Washing dishes and making coffee

Me and Virgil'd chop some wood

But we'd stop our swinging

Just to listen to her crying

It didn't sound too good

I can remember, too well



But we never thought to pay much heed

We learned to live life the best we could

But then one day pa upped and left us

High and dry without a word

Seemed a pity

My ma was pretty

But I soon learned life ain't that way

And I can remember hearing her weeping

While we were sleeping next to her



I can remember 

I'll never forgive and I'll never forget

Cos pa you broke her heart

Ooh pa you broke her heart

You broke her heart

Ooh pa you broke her heart



Well the years rolled by

And 'fore we knew it

Our sister got married and moved out west

I stayed with ma, cos I couldn't desert her

I knew it would hurt her to be alone

So we pulled tighter

We said we'd try to make things easy

And raise a smile

But as the night came

We'd hear her crying

Praying for pa to come back again



I can remember

I'll never forgive him and I'll never forget

Cos pa you broke her heart

Oh pa you broke her heart



And then the winter came

I'd never known it colder

Ooh it seemed the worst for years

And the night she died I swear I saw her smiling

Saying I was a big boy now, no tears



So I packed up all we had, and Virgil got the horses

And we paid our last respects and gave the whip a crack

Ooh, seemed a big bad world, we were riding into

Me and Virgil both agreed, we best head off

And don't look back



Nothing but desert all around

Oh it made me wonder

Lord it's hard to carry on

When you're sick with hunger



Weeks and months of sleeping rough

Keeping clear of danger

Seems we were miles from anywhere

And too far gone to change it

We'd best keep going, don't look back



Well me and Virgil we beat the desert

Riding fast and riding hard

We hit the city, the past behind us

So we raised some hell, we had some fun

But real soon I met a lady oh so pretty, and oh so fine

'fore too long I found myself married

With a home of my own and a blue eyed son

And 'til this day I can hear ma saying to me -

"You're a big boy now"