[ti:Sustain (Album Version)]
[ar:The Waterboys]
[al:Book Of Lightning]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Sustain (Album) - The Waterboys/Mike Scott/Ida Nilsen
[00:01.06]Blues are falling like showers of rain
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[00:05.70]But I don't feel like crying
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[00:10.39]Death is abroad this day
[00:12.10]
[00:14.28]But I don't feel like dying
[00:16.20]
[00:17.64]I learned how to sustain myself
[00:20.77]
[00:23.49]How to sustain myself in storms
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[00:36.54]Her tongue was like a scythe
[00:38.90]
[00:40.09]And all her bones were haunted
[00:42.42]
[00:44.64]A scapegoat for her life
[00:46.55]
[00:48.01]Was all she ever wanted
[00:50.09]
[00:51.18]I learned how to sustain myself in storms
[00:56.15]
[01:00.33]Sir Bedivere slept in the field
[01:02.87]
[01:04.25]His armour strewn around him
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[01:08.24]Curled foetus-like beneath his shield
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[01:11.77]Still weeping when we found him
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[01:16.29]I teetered on the edge of doom
[01:18.91]
[01:20.40]Degenerate and broken
[01:21.95]
[01:23.95]She sucked the poison from my wounds
[01:26.91]
[01:27.92]And spoke the great unspoken
[01:30.16]
[01:31.25]I learned how to sustain myself in storms
[01:36.60]
[02:03.92]His monstrous ego whipped and driven
[02:07.59]Raged beneath his clothing
[02:10.30]
[02:12.21]The compliment he paid was given
[02:14.93]
[02:15.85]Not with grace but loathing
[02:18.71]
[02:20.85]Deliverance is at the gate
[02:22.81]
[02:24.36]With arms and gold in store
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[02:28.18]She apologises for being late
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[02:31.89]But I don't need her anymore
[02:34.17]
[02:35.36]I learned how to sustain myself
[02:38.60]
[02:40.77]How to sustain myself in storms
[02:44.41]
[02:50.38]Scoured and stripped of all pretence
[02:53.75]
[02:55.58]Shorn of all illusion
[02:57.63]
[03:00.15]I offer nothing in my defence
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[03:04.76]You may draw your own conclusions
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[03:08.99]I learned how to sustain myself in storms