Questing, Not Coasting

Album: Quicken The Heart (2009)
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  • Questing
    I am not coasting
    Nor will I ever
    Despite this weather
    I said

    Hey you,what's new?
    I know your face
    Hey you,what's new?
    Let's go someplace
    My thoughts that flit,my loosening grip
    I need to connect to you now

    On our knees against the windowsill
    Watching the sheet lightning fly
    Our hands caught spray from the open window
    A blanket of light,a whitewashed sky

    You move your frame
    Into the shape
    The window makes
    A lunar flame
    Static headlights glow
    In the flooded streets below
    The TV turns to snow
    Gutters weep with overflow
    I said

    Hey you,what's new?
    I know your face
    And I need to connect to you now

    On our knees against the windowsill
    Watching the sheet lightning fly
    Our hands caught spray from the open window
    A blanket of light,a whitewashed sky

    Thanks for coming by
    It's such a dreadful night
    A net curtain flashes
    Outside the rain it lashes
    Frozen stardust falls
    Wide eyes can see it all

    On our knees against the windowsill
    Watching the sheet lightning fly
    Our hands caught spray from the open window

    And we were on our knees against the windowsill
    Watching the sheet lightning fly
    Our hands caught spray from the open window
    Thanks for coming by Writer/s: Archis Tiku, Duncan Robert Lloyd, Lukas James Wooller, Paul Anthony Smith, Thomas Alexander English
    Publisher: Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, UBEM (União Brasileira de Editoras de Música)
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