woah oh.. rise up rise up
let's raise those sails
we'll sail away oh captain

that sun is shining on some distant land
and i perceive it now perchance
i do believe it

on some bright wide blue horizon
a star-mapped moonlit skyline
we're sailing on a fool's dream

that sun is shining on some distant land
and i perceive it now perchance
i do believe it
woah oh.. rise up rise up
let's raise those sails
we'll sail away oh captain
oh captain of my heart

your kiss is burning on my cheek
my breath is stilled
my heart is beating but outside my chest

such beauty is wasted on the young
if only they knew what it was for
if only we had their resilience
if only they realized what they have

they'd go leaping off tall buildings
thinking they'd never hit the ground
if only they knew what i knew now
not to waste it as i must once have been
resilient to love

oh i married you in a blur (A / ES)
but i didn't know what i was getting into
and time passes, age wearies
wine blurs, some things never burn out
still i'm deep into you, so deep into you
i need to tell you

like the rain falling for the dew
moon to night are we to you and you to me

isn't it frightening, my dear heart (ES / F#M / D)
how it crumbles and collapses
and you're leaving me while i'm trying
to make my world collide with you

so please don't leave (A / BM7)
(i won't leave)
so please don't leave
(i won't leave)
you can't leave if I won't give up
and i won't stop trying

i can't say i'll be better than i've been
or i'll do more, i've done a lot
but i have three faces looking back at me
so i'll live with your face for all my days

so please don't leave
(i won't leave)
so please don't leave
(i won't leave)
so please don't leave
(i won't leave)
you can't leave if I won't give up
and i won't stop trying

does it feel smaller now i'm gone
how have you filled the space i leave behind
and i can be reconciled to this
i loved you well with everything i had to give
and i'm sorry for the emptiness i left

still you couldn't see what i was
all i was going to be, you had no belief in me
you would've kept me here in your arms
and held me to the line
but i never drew it, I never kept it
i never needed to hold your hand
the way you wanted me too

I was born with my
fathers blue eyes and i
have the shadow of his face on mine
a blessed curse

i've shown myself to be
the kind to show my
truest colours late in life
a curious display

I don't know why I feel this way
but I want you to say
you see the you in me
and you love me for my truth

I'm not the easiest
of children, daughters can be
difficult and worrisome, i have
grieved you i'm sure

as i've grown older i've
emerged from under my skin
i am more of you, and all of you
that i could hope to be

oh i hope you see me
oh i hope you'll one day see me
that as the day to light
is moon to night is you to me
in the age of me I am the youth of you
i'm everything aspiring to be you
i hope you'll see me
i hope you'll see me trying to be true
to you and me, me and you

I don't know why I feel this way
but I want you to say
you see the you in me
and you love me for my truth

did you ever love me?
ever really love me?
for i loved you

you with all your older, wiser, always knowing better
condemning all my youthful, ideal hopes
convincing me that you were right
i subjugated all my life... for i loved you, i really loved you.

i thought that we could grow together, surely somewhere
there would be some moment where you saw me
you really saw me and believed
these things i knew and know are right... for I loved you, i really loved you.

i hoped we would be friends by now, you would've softened sooner
perhaps have learnt some grace for all your years
but i know that things are done forever
we can never be repaired.. although i loved you..

did you ever love me?
ever really love me?
oh, i loved you.

if one day you came to me contritely, not even pride
would hold me back I would embrace you, for I loved you
and i have always acknowledged I was young and thereby foolhardy enough
to have something to learn but also teach you
i could have taught you so much for i loved you
enough to have the patience it took for all those years
to love you and to teach you
i wonder do you remember anything I taught you while I loved you

did you ever love me?
ever really love me?
oh, i loved you.
i loved you.
will you love me again, one day?