I'll be the corpse in your bathtub
Useless
I'll be as deaf as a post
If you hold me like a newborn
Whisper what you feel
My badly strung declaration to you
You'll spend the end of your days
Gently smiling like a newborn
Whisper what you feel
Love not by degrees
Press your lips to my eyes
Taste my tears on your tongue
Pull the blinds
Play our song
Nothing's changed
Nothing could be wrong
Scream in the night
Kick and strike like a newborn
Holding me shaking awake in the dark
All of these promises kept and unbroken
Tracing the scars
Tracing the scars
Even and cold as we both become older
Your arms bound about me
The hush in your voice
The warmth of your fingers entwined around mine
In the eve of our lives
Never a choice
Useless
I'll be as deaf as a post
If you hold me like a newborn
Whisper what you feel
My badly strung declaration to you
You'll spend the end of your days
Gently smiling like a newborn
Whisper what you feel
Love not by degrees
Press your lips to my eyes
Taste my tears on your tongue
Pull the blinds
Play our song
Nothing's changed
Nothing could be wrong
Scream in the night
Kick and strike like a newborn
Holding me shaking awake in the dark
All of these promises kept and unbroken
Tracing the scars
Tracing the scars
Even and cold as we both become older
Your arms bound about me
The hush in your voice
The warmth of your fingers entwined around mine
In the eve of our lives
Never a choice
Lyrics submitted by Shapeshifter
Newborn Lyrics as written by Richard Barry Jupp Peter James Turner
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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It's talking about an old married couple - one of whom is suffering from dimentia (or some such devastating illness). They've been together for so long and refuse to leave eachother despite the illness being very hard to deal with.
"Love not by degrees" - meaning absolute committment to eachother no matter what happens.
The crescendo at the end is fabolous - the image of such a terrifying "episode" happening to one of them that it brings fear and terror to the other one, but they hold them regardless and do everything in their power to calm them down and reassure them that everything will be alright.
Sends shivers up my spine.
Ps, Coldplay are my all time fav band ;)