My heart has lost it's wind now
Broken like a dead sail
My love has drifted out to sea
My body has been claimed
Soul has been shipped away
Can't feel the sand between my toes

We set the wrong course
And headed due north
That's where we went wrong
We were young and learning
Steady hearts hate turning
That's where we went wrong

My will to fight has been flushed
Seized like blank babies faces
The water line begins to rise
Let the tide swallow me whole
Like morning light in windows
Let that dark water take me home

We set the wrong course
And headed due north
That's where we went wrong
We were young and learning
Steady hearts hate turning
That's where we went wrong

Hey come back to me
Hey come back to me
Hey come back to me
Baby, come back to me

Hey come back to me (ba ba da, ba ba ba)
Hey come back to me (ba ba da, ba ba ba)
Hey come back to me (ba ba da, ba ba ba)
Baby, come back to me (ba ba da, ba)

Hey come back to me
Hey come back to me
Hey come back to me
Baby, come back to me

(ba ba da, ba ba ba)
(ba ba da, ba ba ba)
Hey come back to me(ba ba da, ba ba ba)
Baby, come back to me

We set the wrong course
And headed due north
That's where we went wrong
We were young and learning
Steady hearts hate turning
That's where we went wrong


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    All I know is that every time I hear, "We were young and learning. Steady hearts hate turning. That's where we went wrong," I think of how when kids are younger, and they pull themselves into something like love, or serious relationships, or anything of the sort, things can change. And something being altered, even in any type of relationship, friends too, you can get really uncomfortable and really scared and things start to fall/drift apart. Every time I hear that part. Every time.

    flickerwingson November 01, 2008   Link

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