Mat Kearney Follow

She says today is gonna be the last one

I know there's never gonna be an easy way out

She's rolling round the town with a fast gun

And I know I can't be there to catch her when she falls

Well half way down is half way out of here

We're either halfway drowned or half way 'round the pier

When you're that far gone

I walked the steps to her apartment with the window by the shore

And saw her curled on the tile through a crack in the door

I've been searching for the words I don't know how to say

I've been searching for the words to make it go away

I spent all of last night and the night before that

With my feet in the sand and the wind on my back

Watching a ship sail out to a blue wide sea

There must be more than this with a kiss we can't see

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Well half way down is half way out of here

We're eighter half way drowned or half way round the pier

I can't break her, I can't break her fall

She's lying in the back room, crying on the bathroom floor

Singing I can't take it, I can't take any more

Just one reason, one to believe in

That's not that far gone

Not that far gone

I held the back of her head and laid her in the bed

And watched the sheets raise and fall to the rhythm of her breath

Turn the lock on the handle and slipped down the stairs

To the cover of the night with diamonds in the air

I'll say a prayer in my breath and take a left at the water

To the rhythm of my feet a sister and a daughter

To the rhythm of the sea with the breeze in the autumn

As it blows through the trees my hands into the water

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I can't break her, I can't break her fall

She's lying in the back room, crying on the bathroom floor

And I can't take it, I can't take anymore

She says today is gonna be the last time

And I know there's never gonna be an easy way out