Twilight's fallen on the East Side Tears shed from the evening sky That's aching over 51st Street In colours only dreams design But there's no such peace in my sleep Just the shadows of the day And the echoes of a lonesome city Crying out to me It's only minutes now to midnight And I'm still wandering like a stray But then I see you in the distance Standing stone against the grain Instrumental If you could see you like I do, In a honey locust shade of blue, You are a vision in the moonlight An angel of Fifth Avenue There in the freezing winter breeze That steals the leaves from broken trees And lays a carpet where you dance In a summer dress cut to the knees You shoot a smile in my direction And it almost stops my heart Now I've tasted of your mystery And drank the sand of your mirage Instrumental There's thunder from the tracks Where the night trains stumble down below Where I stand a man just flesh and glass Who fears your mirrors and your smoke But I'd ride the '5' to hell and back If that's where you decide to go Cos now these temple walls are shaking And new seeds already sown And someday I'll find a way To turn my spine into solid steel And I'll release through gritted teeth This bitten tongue I've had concealed 'Til then I'll follow you down Broadway By the trail of neon lights And through the streets of New York City Like a ghost clinging to life Solo I shivered as the cold wind Swept this city under ice Your footprints swallowed in the snow-glazed roads That pave this paradise But your siren song is calling, There ain't no mercy in this fight, And I'd surrender if you weren't already Preaching to the choir Cos I ain't ever had the blues Sing me a song I never knew But you are gospel to a lost soul And I'm a pilgrim to your tune But let me set the record straight I've no heartache left to spare And you're a sign, you're living proof Good things can hurt too much to bear Instrumental Still I'm enchanted by the way you wear That white rose in your black hair You're a tempest tearing open wounds That I am hopeless to repair So I will open up a sleeve For where my wasted heart can bleed Until my well is running dry And only drought is a relief But my skin is paper thin And it ain't no shelter from the storm So I will end as I begin A ship still searching for the shore Instrumental So I said a silent parting Then lost you in the blizzard's haze But I seared your picture in my mind Something the years can never take And I crashed in Battery Park Like remnants of a shooting star Splintered as the city hangs above me Like diamonds in the dark Now the day is slowly breaking On the grave of this romance On the streets of New York City Where, for every first chance, Someone has lived their last

There's a shaded stretch Down by the river's edge Beneath the reaching arms of elm trees And the trestles overhead Where I can let the quiet prowl Like I'm prey waiting to be found Then let the water claw around me 'Til I'm deafened by the sound Cos somewhere on the course Run by this current I am sure These rocks will soften into sand, These rapids will slow to a crawl But here the weather never changes Long enough for me to save My roots from sinking in the soil The poisoned elements have made Chorus I've seen the sands of time slip so fast Underneath my careful steps While the soft clay breaks my stride And these sharp branches bite my neck I've seen the delicate disdain With which this river runs untamed But I still cast my net in hope That I'll be carried in its wake There's a spider's web That haunts this river's edge And with the glacial pace of ages Fate is stalking every thread 'Til we're just skeletons disarmed Decayed and buried by the cards Marked by the crooked hands this land Deals with a mystic's jaded charm Chorus So I'm hollow now for waiting out These vipers in the grass And the wolves baying at my door Who sense the blood spilled in my path From here I can see The waltzing silhouettes and weary heads Of all those fallen in their tracks Charred black and scattered into shreds Chorus I've seen the sands of time slip so fast Underneath my careful steps While the soft clay breaks my stride And these sharp branches bite my neck I've seen the delicate disdain With which this torrent runs untamed But I still cast my net in hope And chain my anchor to its waves

Sweet as summer rain the fireworks came Like razorblades that tear life into empty space They ripped the night sky up in flames And lit the darkness clear as day And now I feel you serenade Like streams of lightning through my veins And if good things come to those who wait Then I'll show the patience of a saint But before the cities start to rust And before the seas all turn to dust I'll pull you close enough to touch And whisper to you only once That if you look inside of me You're every dream that steals my sleep But you're the only worthy thief My dreaming eyes have ever seen Chorus So I would stop the world If I thought it'd give me time To prise the words out from your lips Because I can't read your mind One more second by your side Would be like everlasting life And I would tease your seams apart So I could see behind the mysteries that you hide In the cold light of the sun I've seen the shape of things to come And I know it won't be long Till I wake up to find you gone But you cut my strings with your angel wings And I fell headfirst like you're a sin So through the still and wildest winds I'm yours no matter what tomorrow brings Chorus But if I could stop the world I'd keep us frozen here in time And then you'd see our tender age Don't have to end with this July I have searched the earth so far and wide And it's true that no two snowflakes look alike So I won't ever leave your side Cos treasure of your kind is so hard to find Bridge And when the rolling thunder grows That's just the sound of restless fever in my aching bones Though mighty rivers overflow I carved our names somewhere safe That the floods cannot erode If the darkest night leads to the brightest dawn Then someday I will wash up on your distant shores My clothes may be in rags, my body torn But I will drag my blistered feet Across the map to reach your door Chorus And then I would stop the world Cos there's no enemy like time And I'd lock my fingers in your hands So you would stay forever mine And if I forget to breathe It's cos I've seen how weak my knees can be So take the air out of my lungs Because you're all I'll ever need

Slow ahead my darlin' Better sense says cross your heart And keep your head If we got fortunes all will be revealed So hold your tongue, just lay with me And save your breath instead Pre-Chorus Now I'm a stone's throw From the soft glow of your window So you'll forgive me If my nerves begin to show Chorus But while this soaring symphony Of copper leaves turn summer green I'll trace the fine lines of your palms And mine what's written in between Cos I'm a fool quick to believe In things that you can't touch or see But for one solitary moment Trust in me my Jersey queen It's a long way down my darlin' To the ground when you are falling From the clouds And heaven knows that I'm no stranger To the bruises that are flames Inside a fire that will not die out Pre-Chorus But I'm a stone's throw From the soft glow of your window All at once so far away But never so close Chorus So while the planets orchestrate To slip their shape and fall in place I'm resolved to scale your rooftops Knowing well there's no escape Cos I'm a fool quick to believe In things nobody cares to see But for one solitary moment Trust in me my Jersey queen Pre-Chorus Here I'm a stone's throw From the soft glow of your window Head to my toes paralysed Though featherlight, so Chorus So while this story separates The real from fairytale's embrace I will suffer any thorn in my side Always for your sake Cos I'm a fool quick to believe In things most eyes are blind to see But for one solitary moment Trust in me my Jersey queen

I saw the constellations Write in silver 'cross the sky And illuminate the silence That descended with the night And it may just be illusion Or my sore eyes given sight But on this road it feels like We're the only ones alive Cos we were born with eyes of fire And raised by hearts that beat in time And now we move just like the moon Has cast its spell upon the tides And our sun may never once set Or such hopes may pass us by We'll cross that bridge come the morning But for now we own the night Pre-Chorus So let's leave all these old streets alight Because we've had too much Of all this dead man's town can give And the ashes we'll be leaving Underneath our burning rims Will tell the story of how we will live Chorus So through the dark we'll drive With just this sea of stars for light Like angels on our shoulders Pressed against the pane Of our passenger side Out in these open lanes This country's quiet as the grave 'Cept for the jukebox playing low Over the sound of whispering rain That's dancing 'cross our windows With such tender ballroom grace And clears the air so now it's made For birds like us that can't be caged Now just as sure as dusk will draw Its veil over the day Kingdoms rise and fall And the seasons learn to change I know we'll find that secret place Somewhere half a world away Where it's always warm in the shade And skies don't know the colour grey Pre-Chorus But it's a long and winding highway And it's steep and hard to climb So hold me tighter to your velvet skin And draw your every wish On this kaleidoscope horizon And watch this engine unfold into wings Chorus And through the dark we'll drive With just this sea of stars for light To guide us over every mile That falls beneath our wheels Like history left behind Bridge Maybe time will try To twist the bones out of our backs Maybe time will find us On the wrong side of the tracks But maybe we will fly When all around us will collapse And it will still be you and I When nothing else is built to last Pre-Chorus So I'll keep one hand on the wheel And save one hand for you to hold You keep one hand on your chest And pray our youth never grows old Like outlaws we have stole Through desert heat and mountain cold Waiting for the skyline To ignite and turn to gold Chorus And through the dark we'll drive With just this sea of stars for light Like angels on our shoulders Watching over us tonight

December breathes Its last on New Year's Eve So tie your loose ends tight And run away with me Cos if these vultures weaving Circles show their teeth They'll leave us stranded here With all our bones picked clean Chorus At midnight's stroke These hurricanes will blow So come and raise your sail And click your heels for home And now this winter fits Like salt on wounded wrists So we can stay and die slow Or be gone and live And I've felt the painful twist Of knives between my ribs But I'm an old hand drinking From your poisoned lips Chorus And at midnight's stroke These hurricanes will blow So come and raise your sail And steer this ship for home Bridge It'd be best left unknown What holes my armour shows But you're my weakness My Achilles heel exposed And though your arrows slowly Build my gallows over me It's perfect shape To carry on my shoulders So I'll meet you by the bridge Where lands cross oceans like a stitch Under the cherry blossom trees That swarm in autumn like a mist But now their bitter limbs are twisting In the fiery cold and glistening frost That promises to purge our old sins Ready for a new spring Chorus At midnight's stroke These hurricanes will blow So come and raise your sail And brave the long way home

There's a broken side of me That I have never seen It just took the light of day For it to open and reveal itself to me Now I've been split and I'm in pieces On unseen, unsteady feet And I'm just trying to find my balance While the ground begins to give way under me Pre-Chorus But once the levee's sprung a leak The damage is done And the foundations are weak See, there's no holding back a breach And these still waters won't subside After they've run so deep Chorus And I just find there's something 'bout the moon That better hides this empty room And if the daylight means the last of us Then I don't want to wake to it so soon And I would sleep so easy like the dead But there's still feeling in my chest And every breath that I have left That I can't lay to rest I've made giants so it seems Of all my creeping enemies But it's a war I've sworn to see through 'Til these demons cease to tower over me Yet I'm here carved up into pieces While my weak and troubled feet Are gently tightropin' the fractures That erupt and scratch so hungry at my heels Pre-Chorus But once the fault lines fail beneath me Your once soft touch Will wear on me like an injury And every word will bear new teeth That twist and bury themselves Clean into my chemistry Chorus

All I have left are memories now So I'll burn this city down And with the fiercest flame that fire allows I'll raze each ghost that haunts this town These streets they speak without a sound So I'll burn this city down I've walked this fragile land from north to south And every step feels hallowed ground Bridge You're every face in every crowd So I'll burn this city down 'Til I'm the final ember dying out And there's only dust for miles around I've seen more tears than I can count So I'll burn this city down And I'll go up in smoke if I don't drown Just to clean your still warm taste out of my mouth And if there's a silver line to every cloud Then I'll burn this city down And I'll take the first train out as far as it's bound Or 'til I lose myself and can't be found

It's been so long my Spanish rose How swift the years have flown Since you crossed the tides of raging seas And travelled far from home So bless my stars and your gypsy heart Colliding though oceans apart Then to sink you so deep, like a needle so sweet, Into my waiting arms Chorus Here's a simple truth I'll sell for free I know your price and it don't come cheap But you're a slow burn turning through my blood And can't quite tear the skin to leave It ain't lies or deceit or a desperate reach Or a frailty born out of my grief But your emerald eyes and your poetry smile Still bring peace to my turbulent sleep So bless my stars and your wandering heart Conspiring like thieves in the dark And like summer to spring, where you end I begin Now you've slipped in past my guard Chorus Bridge It's been so long, years come and gone And though gravity's keeping us close All the scars we have worn, and veneers we have drawn, Have torn us down different roads So curse my stars for your suffering heart And the name that laid claim to it first But for all that it's worth you're a whisper of words Ever parched by my ravenous thirst Chorus But there's a million miles of sky between All I can give and what you need Still you're a slow burn turning through my blood And can't quite tear the skin to leave

I look in the mirror And I see only strangers And I pray that someday My reflection changes I can number my days If I let this sleeping storm wake So I'll let loose the brakes And ride the wave this endless highway makes Chorus So I'll take one for the road Cos I ain't coming home I may face the night alone I may chase shadows as I go And for all tomorrow knows The future's never set in stone But like water to a rose I'll grow new flesh upon these old bones I know you wanted me All locked in chains without a key To pull me into your machine And make me part of your disease But I set the walls of my defences With no spaces in between And hell would have to freeze Before I fall and follow where you lead Repeat Chorus I've been hanging by a thread so long I don't know any less And I have felt the devil's rope All curled and tangled in my head So now I'll take this trail west To where the ocean meets the edge Of solid ground and I won't rest Until redemption can be wound out of the wreck Repeat Chorus