When We Were Young We used to never say never Used to think we live for ever Flying free beneath the sun Days go running and hiding The weeks are going slippy and sliding Years leave quicker everytime they come Remember when we were young Look back to the best days Collecting all yesterdays As they built up one by one How we beg and we borrow Say we do it tomorrow But tomorrow never seems to come We used to never say never Used to think we live for ever Flying free beneath the sun Days go running and hiding The weeks are going slippy and sliding Years leave quicker everytime they come And we were boys on the beach Everything was in reach I know it's hard to remember And all had the years they vanish I always wanted to learn Spanish And travel round South-America We used to never say never Used to think we live for ever Flying free beneath the sun Days go running and hiding The weeks are going slippy and sliding Years leave quicker everytime they come Remember when we were young (3x)
Beautiful Birds Do you remember when we were two beautiful birds? We would light up the sky when we'd fly, You were orange and red like the sun when it sets, I was green as an apple's eye. You said you loved all the songs that I'd sing, Like nothing that you'd ever heard, And I said I loved you with all of my heart when We were two beautiful birds Remember when we were two beautiful birds, We would sing when the morning would come, You were silver and blue like the moon when it's new, I was gold as a summer sun. But one day you asked for a different song, One that I just couldn't sing, I got the melody sharp and the words all wrong, Those were the last days of spring. To build a nest we pecked feathers from our chests, Like a book tearing out every page, We weren't to know that these feathers would grow Into a beautiful cage. Read more: Passenger - Beautiful Birds Lyrics | MetroLyrics
"The Long Road" We've walked the long road and you've worn it well. You stitched yourself up when you fell. Keep your memories in jars, Carry secrets in scars Beneath your shell. You've seen some good days, and some bad ones too. You weave through fashion and trend. You've seen a sun rise on an ocean blue, You've seen it set for the dearest of friends You found faith but you, chose to doubt it. You found love but you, left without it. And now you don't want, to talk about it. You travelled down through foreign lands, Touched mountain tops and golden sand, Seen pyramids and temples made of stone. Keep seashells in a cashmere scarf, A treasured book of photographs In every single one you stand alone. You've seen Vienna and the Berlin wall, As you watched the decades fall The letters that you wrote never made it home. Your birthdays flew past like June, With Christmas days in hotel rooms And new years eve with people you don't know. You built friendships but they, sailed without you. You never meant it and that's why, they doubt you. They don't ever talk about you. You're older than you used to be, The mirror weaves a tapestry Of lines that dance and shimmer 'round your eyes. You stare back at a man, forever holding out his hand As if the answer's going to fall out of the sky. But the penny never dropped, And no man has ever stopped time flying by.
"Restless Wind" Where, hello there restless wind It's been a long time, since you've blown through the streets I really don't mind If you pick me up off my feet, just one last time And take me, where you've gotta go I've been tied to a mast, anchored to a shore Buried in the earth and rooted to the floor As long as you willing, then I'll be sure To go with you, we've gotta go Oh I don't mind, where it is we go From Northumberland's hills, Yorkshire and her malls The mountains of North Wales to the Cornish Shores As long as you are mine, I'll be yours, I'll go with you where you've got to go. We'll leave England's green, her old country lanes, over the yellow fields of France, to the beaches of Spain, As long as you promise to take me home again. I'll go with you where you've got to go. Ooh I don't mind where it is we go Just take me from here, take me somewhere I can disappear. You'd take me anywhere my dear. Oh and carry me away. Take me from this old dark day. Restless wind, will you blow my way?