Cold Bread

Johnny Flynn

Well I'm sure you're near
And I can almost smell you
But the winds are up at the walls again

I can hear you coming
Heaven helped you coming
I believe in heaven it's a wait away

Did you learn just how I loved you?
Did you see how far I'd been?
Would you meet me in an hour?
I could tell you what I've seen
What I've seen

[Chorus]
Cold bread
Cold bread
We had

Would you whine in water
Pull your chips back in
So you crawl like a crab across black fries bridge
Suffer none to fade
Hit the homeward road
I'm a bowling green
A delivery boy

Have a heart that skips a beat
Oh come on
Roll along for free
In the middle of the morning
Swap your drinking nights with me
With me

[Chorus: x2]

I can live with dying
I can chew my bit
Play panic to my senses
And hijack my head
It's the rhythm of moving
And a rolling and a rattle
Its a giving instead
It's a well sprung bed
We can roll around forever
We can pray for all we've been
We can knock it hell for leather
We can call it all a dream
All a dream

[Chorus: x2]

For your outward bound
Remember what we found


Lyrics submitted by MuchTooMuch, edited by flynner, Macphisto12

Cold Bread Lyrics as written by Joe Zeitlan Adam Beach

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    You're right you just spelled it wrong. The line is "suffer nought to fade". "Nought" just being a different word for "nothing".

    irishhobbiton July 13, 2010   Link

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