On the Rocks (4AD Session)

On The Rocks - Stornoway

January goes round to find me

Alone in this place where I've been livin'

My real home lives down the river

Where she's makin' circles with her tears

And February blows even colder

And I'll send my love downstream

In words and verses in plastic boxes

She's still unready to take them

And they're bobbin underneath the bridges

Out to the ocean back, back on the rocks

And the rain came down back in December

When you told me you were driftin'

The waters rose while my door swung closed

On the circles that you lived in

You got so caught up in the swirls and eddies

You never saw where you were headin'

Oh, you were bobbin' underneath the bridges

Out to the ocean and back, back on the rocks

Spring is only round the corner

As I'm writing you this final letter

I'll drop it in the cool green water

At the bridge where we jumped in together

And I hope it will be carried to you

And I'll sleep on the rocks beside

And I hope the words serve to remind you of

Someone you can leave behind

Someone you still hold inside

Someone who'll be waiting for you

To take me from this burning bridge

Before I end up back, back on the rocks