| Think back to days in hidden caves
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| They’re still so small I gave them everything
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| They’d paint your eyes with sunsets
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| My saints, my sighs, my upsets, and the days I couldn’t cope
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| And the waves
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| Oh the waves
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| Remember they are safe
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| I forgot to pack them lunches
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| Think back to paddling pools and rainy days where they would
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| I need a drink or two
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| They’d harmonise with echoes Nor are you
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| With charcoal eyes, stilttos, they’re not ready
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| But th waves
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| Oh the waves
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| Oh
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| I don’t want them to go
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| Oh
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| Just tell them what your haggard mother told you long ago
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| Pick your chords well loves
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| But sing your notes off key
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| You can’t rehearse the chorus
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| But the verse is sweet
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| And if your voice begins to crack
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| If you ever feel alone
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| They might laugh because you’re leaving
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| But know we’ll sing your name when you come home
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| Remember today hey we did our best
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| I know they think I’m nightmare
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| Come paddle by the shore
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| I guessed pushed them pushed them all
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| You are your own magician, let the ocean give to you
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| And by my own admission, had no notion what to do
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| Its waves. |
| Oh the waves
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| Ah bollocks to your waves
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| Remember today you’re enough
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| Please don’t do this my heart is breaking
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| Know they love you you tried You did but So did they
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| But I raged so much But so did they
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| We built our castles just to watch them wash away
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| They are my rascals I can’t let them walk away
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| In the waves, oh the waves
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| Hold my hand
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| Oh
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| I need them to stay
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| Oh
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| Just remember those wicked words your mother used to say
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| Pick your chords well loves
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| But sing your notes off key
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| You dad will forget the words
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| And fucking bastard what is it
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| And if your voice begins to crack
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| And you ever feel alone
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| They might laugh because you’re leaving
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| But know we’ll sing your name when you come home
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| Walk into your waves my loves
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| Tell them all your names
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| Go tell them how we failed you
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| And gift to us all your blame
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| Cos we’ll be all that you hate about yourself
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| So you can grow
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| Cos life begins by leaving
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| And our love is shown in the letting go
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| Go walk into your dawn you snotrags
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| Tell them that we never cared
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| Go tell them how we fucked you up
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| And oh my god it’s so unfair
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| We were the winter nights
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| So you could be the morning snow
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| Your life begins by leaving
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| And our love is shown
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| In the letting go
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| Be good / be good
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| Be safe / be safe
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| Be kind / be kind
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| And know we’ll always love you
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| Even though you’re leaving us behind
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| Be good / be good
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| Be safe / be safe
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| Be kind / be kind
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| And know we’ll always love you
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| Even though you’re leaving us behind |