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Time passes quickly on an island; time lets the past drift away
Across the golden waves, into the spellbound night
And I sat on the banks of history’s coast, watched the steelworks crumble to dust
It’s all just fate and chance; you can’t cage it in plans, you can’t leave it to rust
So we cleared away memory’s cobwebs, from the windows and the cabin door
Walked back along the shore, across electric sand
That old wooden sign was just swaying in the wind, standing dark in a neon sunset
We walked in two years late; where the future was waiting, saying “don’t miss me again”
The Irish singer in the corner, and the ships on the wall
Old people in the shadows, smoke rising up from their eyes
Through the ghost of my past, climbing up on the stage
Violins and tip trays
The person I wasn’t then, I’ll always envy him
Every minute I couldn’t make mine
Every second that should have been mine
The cathedral’s lit up in the evenings, against the night clubs and the cruise ships
A perfect mix, of who I am and what I was
She said “All I can see, is the best of you boy; I won’t romanticize what I didn’t love”
But why shouldn’t I babe? There can be peace in mistakes that led me to us
The angel in my wallet, the band around my wrist
The bench by the fountains, on my balcony kissing her
The blood of the sunrise, like the wine still in my glass
The winter coming up fast
Oh her stories of her lovers, well I never wanted them
I’d listen but I’d try not to hear
Every word as they burned in my ears
Now I’m not saying if I go back I would, but I’d consider it
I don’t know if I could trust myself to find my way back here
I could be somewhere else
Oh maybe somewhere without…
The Irish singer in the corner, the ships on the wall
My jacket round her shoulders, hers waiting for her on the bed
The handwritten ticket, to the look on her face
Well I missed her all three of those days
The people in her past, I’ll always envy them
Every minute that was never mine
Every second that should have been mine
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