If I ever have a say about this thing you call my life,
let me go to where the sands are always white.
And I promise I will call you as soon as I get there
from the airport or the station or the nearest clean hotel.
I will walk into the sunset for the first time in my life,
heaven knows it’s been a long goodbye.
And if only for a moment I could gather all I’ve earned,
I’d strike a little match and watch it burn,
Yeah, I’ll walk into the sunset for the first time in my life,
heaven knows it’s been a long goodbye.
If only for a moment I could gather all I’ve earned,
I’d strike a little match and watch it burn.
Now some things never change but we both know better than that,
this city’s got a way to throw its nightmares on you back.
But I’m not getting any younger and I’m sick of morning trains:
they never leave the station, they only swap the names.
So I walked into the sunset for the first time in my life,
heaven knows it was been a long goodbye.
If only for a moment I could gather all I’ve earned,
I’d strike a little match and watch it burn.
Yeah, I’d strike a little match and watch it burn.
credits
from The Collapse,
released October 28, 2016
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