"Sink Ships" lyrics

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Lyrics

"Sink Ships"

Sunlight falls on your hands
As you type, just something in my head
Standing in this empty space
Your desk is gone, the wall's still dark from where it went

This position is not open now for applicants
The application forms got shredded
There was faulty wording in the documents

I can still hear you laughing, coming up the rickety stairs
There was laughing as the springtime filled your lungs with air
Gray smoke rung out like the patches of your hair
Like violets, like birds inside the bells

A gray ghost prowls in the back of my mind
While the sun is out, no, it's still up and the light is shining
It's season's push and pull enough to get us through
Well, my mind is open now like the door to an empty room

This position is not open now for applicants
The application forms got shredded
There was faulty wording in the documents

I can still hear you laughing, coming up the rickety stairs
Laughing as the springtime filled your lungs with air
Gray smoke rung out like the patches of your hair
Like violets, like birds inside the bells

If somehow I'd have known
I'd have rather gone down with the ship
Than be without you, if only for the chance
To hold your hand, to be your friend
I never got a last time
I would've rather gone down, than this
The war is over, the war is over, the war is over
And I'm waiting in the sinking ships

If only I had known
If only I had known


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