Up On the Ride - Guillemots

In my heart lies a desert

That has glorified the rain

From the downpour of water

To the reason for my pain

There’s a price to kindness

There’s a bridge I’ve yet to cross

Where the downpour of silence

Is the reason we get lost

And find me a partner that can stand the way I shake

On the paths of my framework

From the laughter to the lake

Oh I try be clever

Oh I try to be good

Oh I messed up the same way

That I always knew I would

There was dirt on the carpet

There was freedom in the smile

Of the one I chased after

Oh you sat there all the while

I don’t claim to be more than I ever have been

But at night I was badness

Oh that night I was framed

Oh that night I was madness

Oh that night I was shamed

[So you will change today.

The lights you so frequently cover will begin to shine again.

The pathways you tread so blindly

Will start to have purpose, or disappear.

The drastic decisiveness that

You must learn to inherit will make it’s first

Cautious journey upwards into your neglected but patient soul.

I would like to be your friend.

Life, the gift you so often squander, is precious as it has always been.

And faith, though hidden, still sits above your head.

So pull back the murky curtains.

Go wash and purge those demons clean.

Today is the first day, as they have always been.

And today, on you, you will begin again to love thyself with joy.]

Oh, stay with me my baby

I know I’m not an easy ride

But I’ll do anything to keep you

To keep you by my side

Oh, stay with me my baby

I know I’m not an easy ride

But I’ll do anything to keep you

By my side

I may not ever find the one

I spend my whole life trying to run

But I can’t let a good thing die

I’m gonna fight for you and I

I may not ever find the one (stay with me my baby…)

I spend my whole life trying to run (I know I’m not an easy ride…)

But I can’t let a good thing die (but I’ll do anything to keep you…)

I’m gonna fight for you and I (by my side…)

I may not ever find the one

I spend my whole life trying to run

But I can’t let a good thing die

I’m gonna fight for you and I

Oh, stay with me my baby

I know I’m not an easy ride

But I’ll do anything to keep you

To keep you by my side

Oh what’s the point in moving

When you don’t have a place to go

I might never come home, I might never come home