Music and Lyrics by Thomas Carter. Copyright Verlaine Records 2008.
The Queensway Tube was closed by a flood -
You said you’d drive and pick me up.
And I wish I was still on that train now,
And out of this pain now.
There just come times you want to change,
To loose yourself, to cut the reigns.
There ain’t no point in counting the days now -
It ain’t gonna change now.
Everybody’s trying to be free.
Since you left me, I don’t try.
I just leave things as they lie.
If I could change these circumstances,
Then I’d be happy.
In your arms I was a child,
Now children carry knives about.
This city’s hard upon those days now,
It takes them away now.
Everybody’s trying to be free.
Some from you - you from me.
Oh, I pray to God,
From this day,
Don’t leave me pleading,
To release me,
From this day.
Just believe me,
That I can’t see,
That I can’t wait.
I wish I could, but I cant wait…
Keep your meanings -
I don’t need them,
To go my way.
Just believe me,
That I don’t need this,
To turn to grey.
Just believe me,
That I don’t mean it,
That I don’t need this,
To fade away.
To turn to grey.
From this day.
It’s true that everything you need isn’t love,
But without it, you need it so much,
Everybody’s trying to be free in love,
Everybody’s trying to be free.
credits
from Late in Time,
released September 1, 2008
Produced by Thomas Carter