Every breaking wave on the shore

Tells the next one "there'll be one more"

Every gambler knows when to lose

It's what you're really there for

Someone else fears

Now I'm speaking to an answerphone

Like every fallen leaf on the breeze

Winter wouldn't leave it alone, alone



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If you go

If you go your way and I go mine

Are we so

Are we so helpless against the time?

Baby, every doubt of history

Knows that we're in love with defeat

Are we ready to be swept off our feet

And start chasing every breaking wave?



Every sailor knows that the sea

Is a friend made enemy

Every shipwrecked soul knows what it is

To live without intimacy

I thought I heard the captain's voice

It's hard to listen while you preach

Like every broken wave on the shore

This is as far as I could reach



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The sea knows where all the rocks

Are drowning is an ocean

You know where my heart is

The same place that yours has been

We know that we fear the wind

And it's all we have before we begin

Before we begin



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