Darling won’t you join me out here on the balcony?
A million moonlit sparkles…
Without you I am lost at sea.
Sadness echoes on the shore when rocks and waves collide.
(Just like you and I.)
Now your heart is empty…
Your love leaves me like the tide.

Lost at sea the water will rise
Your love leaves me like the tide
Your wake still haunts me in the night
Your love leaves me like the tide.

Won’t be long now until I disappear beneath the waves.
Won’t you please forget my name, my kiss,
And please forget my face.

Sadness echoes on the shore when rocks and waves collide.
(Just like you and I.)
Now your heart is empty…
Your love leaves me like the tide.

Lost at sea the water will rise
Your love leaves me like the tide
Your wake still haunts me in the night
Your love leaves me like the tide.

How can you betray who you trust?
How can you replace who you love?
Beneath the current there is no guide
Your love leaves me like the tide


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    Much thanks goes out to Steve from the Bedlam Society for help with all of these lyrics!

    wiley11on February 20, 2005   Link

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