My book has more bookmarks than pages
Cause it take me ages
Or is everybody reading
Is everybody reading

Standing on a black Ulster hill
I never fear the chill
Cause everybody's holding
Everybody's holding

I wouldn't swap the pain
For never knowing you
I wouldn't swap the pain
It was worth it for the view

My book has more bookmarks than pages
Cause it take me ages
Or is everybody reading
Is everybody reading

Of a sparkling Medusa
With snakes of cerise and blue
And though we're all pillars of salt now
It was worth is for the view

I wouldn't swap the pain
For never knowing you
I wouldn't swap the pain
Cause it was worth it for the view

We're still watching
Your rainbow through the shower
And we still see you
In every sunflower
We're still watching
I make days from the hours
And I still see you
In every sunflower
Every screaming sunflower

And how they scream of you


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In Every Sunflower Lyrics as written by Paul John Weller

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    every time he says "yeah we're still watching" I always thought that he would say "I wish they were watching" as in, whoever or wherever this person has gone to now, he knows they won't be appreciated there the same way. As in, I wish they would see you the way we do. because it's the least this person deserves. I really love the line about the rainbow through the shower, like they're a little light. nobody really pays attention to their light, except him. He seems to notice the smallest details of this person (like being reminded of them in silent sunflowers), including their rainbow through the shower. He only wishes that wherever this person goes that someone is there to see it for what it is. But yeah i heard that wrong, I like the line as "yeah we still see you" as well.

    minuetteon April 20, 2013   Link

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