The Starting Line

Album: Strangeland (2012)
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  • This town was a lovers stage
    But now you can't recognize
    The streetlights that are daggers to your eyes
    You can't find your bearings
    You're slipping into the ground
    The scene has no color and no sound

    You still believe in me
    After the things I've done
    You fear for what we have become
    The ground is uneven
    We stumble from day to day
    You shelter where it's easy
    Although your feet are like lead
    But you gotta get underway

    Drag your heart up to the starting line
    Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time
    It's too easy to get left behind
    I know you've been kicked around
    But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me

    Each heart is a paper kite blown around by the breeze
    Love won't rest 'til it brings you to your knees
    Some find it easy, some will never even know
    You think you've done your journey
    Then you stumble and find that there's such a long way to go

    Drag your heart up to the starting line
    Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time
    It's too easy to get left behind
    I know you've been kicked around
    You wanna be lost and not be found
    But let's take the back way into town
    Drink to the bad times
    Lay them down on me

    Girl, I still believe in you
    You're too good to fall so low
    We're gonna find a better life I know
    Things will be clearer
    As soon as we make a start
    We'll be that much nearer
    We're too old to just stand here waiting to break apart

    Drag your heart up to the starting line
    Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time
    It's too easy to get left behind
    I know you've been kicked around
    But tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me
    On me, on me Writer/s: JESSE QUIN, RICHARD DAVID HUGHES, TIMOTHY JAMES RICE-OXLEY, TOM CHAPLIN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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