Mew - Cross the River on Your Own lyrics

I know a way to kill the ripple
From your touch
And what if I can only settle, for much?
It stays with you
You’re like a sky so drizzly
That I want, till I take it out on you
Show me how to keep you in

You be good to me and I, I’ll be good to you
Don’t let go of your light
It’s your best friend in the world
I hope you’ll learn what Heaven knows
Who cares if I go?

I know a way to tell the middle
From the start
And what if telling makes the brittle
Fall apart? In time although my hair
Turns grey and grizzly stay with me

So we cursed a lot
And I’m ashamed of walking out
Oh it’s just too bad
We got stuck in the past
We’re hiding there in silence now
It sounds familiar, you be good to me
And I, I’ll be good to you
I’m off to work, but I don’t see you turn

Cross the river on your own
On the other side you wanna go far away
On the other side the riverbed
Follows us there

You be good to me and I, I’ll be good to you
Don’t let go of your light
It’s your best friend in the world
I hope you’ll learn what Heaven knows
Who cares if I go?

So we cursed a lot
And I’m ashamed of walking out
And my thoughts are wrought
With a shortsighted secret
And missing you, why do you cry, Paddy?
Long as I’ve been alive, old as I am
I’ve still no plan, I’m off to work
But, I don’t see you turn, my life was okay
I was counting my steps