Now you know that I heart everything about you
And that's why it's quite hard to get through this alone

You're the only one I can talk to about it
In my darkest night I will be on my own

These walls that we climb are hard to recognize
They fall when I say your name

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Don't you know it's hard, quite, in the time of confusion
To tell you that I love you

You see it could have been me instead of you
It could have been me if I wanted to
But it wasn't
So we'll have to face the truth

These walls that we climb are hard to recognize
They fall when I say your name

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Time to pull the shutters down
Breakin' clouds don't make a sound?

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair


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Big Chair Lyrics as written by Francis Healy Andrew Dunlop

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    It does balance his nice understated voice wonderfully. i think its about, when you in a situation and you have that person you can tell everything to feeling alone despite this because, maybe they can't or maybe you dont think they can understand what your going through

    "time to pull the shutters down Breakin' clouds don't make a sound?"

    Your closing up not talking to them but still taking them along for the ride? obviously its an emotional journey, big chair could be the heart of it in that, this situation is taking him along for the ride. only listened once just got album so feel free to comment. am just trying to help Blastings 18

    ellichisotton May 08, 2007   Link

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