The Captain And The Kid Lyrics

We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses In that upstairs apartment On Orlando and 4th And the rent was due and the rent man was knocking Like a Chinese proverb We were always ...Read Full Lyrics

Took a high dive arcing out wide Into the crowd Out to the sound of their wild applause But you've heard it before And you've seen it all From up there on the diving board You'd f...Read Full Lyrics

And when we start we say forever We say we care, we need, we feel We read the movement of our eyes But in our hearts we still believe The end will come, before we know The silent ...Read Full Lyrics

Being wiry and thinking loudly About the things sent to make you move You can't help it, there's no one in the world Knows you just, just the way you do So we keep darting through ...Read Full Lyrics

In the heart of every girl There's a woman waking up Like sunlight spreads across the world A smile for us is just enough But in the heart of every girl There's a homespun family d...Read Full Lyrics

(Music by Elton John, Lyrics by Lee Hall) Dear Billy, I must seem a distant memory Which is probably a good thing And it will have been a long, long time And I will have missed yo...Read Full Lyrics

Yesterday you came to lift me up As light as straw and brittle as a bird Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall Just one more whisper of a voice unheard Tomorrow leave the w...Read Full Lyrics

These battered hand are all you own This broken heart has turned to stone Go hang your glory on the wall There comes a time when castles fall And all that's left is shifting in the...Read Full Lyrics

Everything is settled, immovable and calm Nothing that has plagued our lives can ever do us harm Then the voices railed against us, then the path was steep Now the sounds are softe...Read Full Lyrics

You can't always count on the prayers in your sleep But this cold light's still killing me If I pay the ransom Well can they guarantee To split the chains, slip the knots I don't k...Read Full Lyrics