Elbow - August and September lyrics

Suddenly last summer
I started going out of my head
In a tiny hotel room lying naked on a bed
I knew what you were doing
And I knew what you'd done
Your life with me was ending
Your new life had begun
But, I was cursing your name
And I was cursing that room
And I was praying for the
Strength to stop loving you

I started writing you the letter
Which turned into the book
I was gonna reach across the ocean
And force you to look
But what kind of man was I?
Who would sacrifice your happiness
To satisfy his pride what kind of man was I?
Who would delay your destiny to
Appease his tiny mind
Then you came back to me and
I went down on onе knee
With a glint in my eyes and
A rose bеtween my teeth
And I pushed out my tongue for you to see
That I'd been dying of a
Thirst for your company
Then you quenched my loneliness
With your tears and our clothes fell away as
We rolled back the years
But we couldn't deny it because
We could not admit it

If our love was too strong to die
Or we were just too weak to kill it
Was our love too strong to die?
Or were we just too weak to kill it?

Every moment in that room
I closed my eyes in prayer
Every moment I awoke
I clenched my teeth in prayer

What kind of man was I?
Who would sacrify your happiness
To satisfy his pride what kind of man was I?
Who would delay your destiny to
Appease his tiny mind
Who could delay your destiny to
Appease his aching swollen pride
Who could delay your destiny to
Appease his screaming little mind
You're mine