Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song On the Edge of a Cliff , by - The Streets. Release date: 11.09.2008
Song language: English
On the Edge of a Cliff |
| «I'm really okay, thanks, there’s nothing to witness» |
| I said as I looked back from the edge of the cliff |
| The old man looking down lent over the ridge |
| Struck with a grin as if a blessing had hit him |
| I slumped on the jut of the cliff |
| «Just leave me alone, this is none of your business» |
| «I will, said the old man, «but just one thing» |
| And what he said was so lovely it stunned me |
| He said, «I lay right there once at the edge of the rock |
| I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost |
| But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot» |
| For billions of years since the outset of time |
| Every single one of your ancestors survived |
| Every single person on your mum and dad’s side |
| Successfully looked after and passed on to you life |
| What are the chances of that like? |
| It comes to me once in a while |
| And everywhere I tell folk, it gets the best smile |
| And then the old man walked away and out of sight |
| Till the sound of him hiking turned to the sound of silence |
| I just froze in a profound surprise |
| And from down on my pride, I found a smile to my eyes |
| And for many days again, I’ve been passing the same cliff |
| And on many occasions, I’d chance on the same thing |
| Laying in the moss in the same way I was |
| Would be another man looking like he needed a change of luck |
| So I’d say, «I lay right there once at the edge of the rock |
| I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost |
| But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot» |
| For billions of years since the outset of time |
| Every single one of your ancestors survived |
| Every single person on your mum and dad’s side |
| Successfully looked after and passed on to you life |
| What are the chances of that like? |
| It comes to me once in a while |
| And everywhere I tell folk, it gets the best smile |
| For billions of years since the outset of time |
| Every single one of your ancestors survived |
| Every single person on your mum and dad’s side |
| Successfully looked after and passed on to you life |
| What are the chances of that like? |
| It comes to me once in a while |
| And everywhere I tell folk, it gets the best smile |