Counting all different ideas drifting away
Past and present they don't matter
Now the future's sorted out
Watch her moving in elliptical patterns
Think it's not what you say
What you say is way too complicated
For a minute though I couldn't tell how to fall out

It's twenty seconds till the last call
You're going hey hey hey hey hey hey
Lie down you know it's easy
Like we did it over summer long

And I'll be anything you ask and more
You're going hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
It's not a miracle we needed
No I wouldn't let you think so

Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it

Girlfriend, oh your girlfriend is drifting away
Past and present 1855-1901
Watch them built up a material tower
Think it's not gonna stay anyway
I think it's overrated
For a minute though I couldn't tell how to fall out

It's twenty seconds till the last call
You're going hey hey hey hey hey hey
Lie down you know it's easy
Like we did it over summer long

And I'll be anything you ask and more
You're going hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
It's not a miracle we needed
No I wouldn't let you think so

Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it

Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it


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1901 Lyrics as written by Frederic Moulin Christian Mazzalai

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    This song is really amazing, I can't believe no one has commented on it. Birdy is truly an amazing singer and she has one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard

    TwilightAngel84on July 02, 2012   Link
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    I do enjoy listening to this song but i really don't understand a word of it...i wonder if anybody would explain the whole thing for me....:(

    ahooraquienon December 16, 2013   Link
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    I think this song is about a relationship in which the two people are both sort of aware that it isn't working, but neither want to separate. So there isn't any emotion in the relationship and it's based upon sex. In the first paragraph, it's talking about the two people arguing (from a man's point of view). The woman is talking about what's wrong and he's thinking that it isn't as complicated as what she's saying. We're just not supposed to be together. "Twenty seconds 'til the last call", this relationship is going to end soon."Lie down, you know it's easy", they solve everything with sex, not really resolving anything. "Like we did throughout the summer long." We've done this all summer, this is how our relationship has been for an entire season.

    KazzJazz99on November 20, 2014   Link

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