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Because All Romantics Are Quitters

from We Wanted To Be The Sky EP by We Wanted To Be The Sky

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Because All Romantics Are Quitters

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Humdrum, Beckoning
A life in another world
Sailing them is a ship
Made of patchworked paperclips
Shackled in; crewless

The ocean shyly shoulders the hull knocking at its door
Plunking like a learning ukulele it wants more

Time ticks; reminisce
The grit polished to pearls
A universe resident
To moored marionettes
Shackled in; crewless

Clicking castanets, there is a vessel in her chest
Whittled from old memories, splintered, wooden and restless
And the boy says things are fine, and the girl she is devine
But they know, they know
All their hopes strung from the sky
Improvised with point and line
'Cos they know, they know
All romantics are quitters, all romantics are

He said, “you were the one I should have stood still for”
They were lost as sea, and in each other
Their paper-clipped existence moored only by reality
Compelling them to move safely within their society
They had quit their hum-drum lives (because all romantics are quitters)
For all they had (what was left to gain?)
For all their cowardice they still wanted to be
TAKEN AWAY - -

The ocean shyly shoulders the hull knocking at its door
Plunking like a learning ukulele it wants more
And the boy says things are fine, and the girl she is devine
But they know, they know
All their hopes strung from the sky
Improvised with point and line
'Cos they know, they know
All romantics are quitters, all romantics are

‘cos they know, they know
Because all romantics are quitters, all romantics are
All romantics are quitters, all romantics are…

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from We Wanted To Be The Sky EP, released April 20, 2013
© 2013 We Wanted To Be The Sky
℗ 2013 We Wanted To Be The Sky

Violin by Winnie Lau
Acoustic guitar by John Greer

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Like a classic soap opera with a set full of cliff-hangers, WWTBTS carefully craft songs with lessons of escape, desire, drama and random elements from the periodic table.

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