Parisian Skies - Maxïmo Park

Parisian skies

Shadows beneath your eyes

All we have now

(And the arc of your brow)

You came to leave these shores

An inkling in your pores

We came to bid farewell

The tears began to swell

Oh, I don’t think she knew

I can’t forget her

The dark withholds

And lives unfold

We always slept so well

Our bodies seemed to gel

The mind persists

We have thoughts to exist

It was a test I failed

Her passion never paled

Oh, I don’t think she knew

How much I loved her

Oh, I don’t think she knew

Is this the thrill of the chase?

How can I keep up the pace?

Parisian skies

Shadows beneath your eyes

We always slept so well

The presents casts a spell

You said we never talked

But there’s a lightness that it brought

Refracting all my sins

We never lacked a thing

Oh, I don’t think she knew

How much I loved her

Oh, I don’t think she knew

Oh Rebecca, your loss was mine too

Did you ever feel the thrill of the chase?

The breath on your neck in the locked embrace

Did you ever feel the thrill of the chase?

The hairs on your neck in a lost embrace

I love the tiny veins on you back

They remind me of the way porcelain cracks