The Blanket of Night

Album: The Take Off and Landing of Everything (2014)
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  • Paper cup of a boat
    Heaving chest of the sea
    Carry both of us
    Carry her, carry me

    From the place we were born
    To the land of the free
    Carry both of us
    Carry her, carry me

    The ocean
    That bears us from our home
    Could save us
    Or take us for its own
    The danger
    That life should lead us here
    My angel
    Could I have steered us clear?

    Gone, the light from her eyes
    With the lives that we made
    Just the two of us
    In the night on the waves

    Moving silent her lips
    By the moon's only light
    Sewing silver prayers
    In the blanket of night

    The ocean
    That bears us from our home
    Could sail us
    Or take us for its own
    The danger
    That life should lead us here
    My angel
    Could I have steered us clear?

    Paper cup of a boat
    Heaving chest of the sea
    Carry both of us
    Or, swallow her, swallow me Writer/s: Craig Lee Potter, Guy Edward John Garvey, Mark Potter, Peter James Turner, Richard Barry Jupp
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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