Forever Ever

[Intro: Dan Smith]

I don't wanna talk about it

I don't wanna talk about it

I don't wanna talk about it

I don't wanna talk about it

I don't wanna talk about it

I don't wanna talk about it

I don't wanna talk about it

I don't wanna talk about it

[Verse 1: Kae Tempest]

I see ahead of me a light that takes my breath

If we're only ever looking back, then how can we expect

To see each other as we are, for all that we've become?

Would we be friends at all if we weren't friends when we was young?

I want to feel close to you for more than just the sake

Of the place that we grew up in, all them times when we got baked in the park

Look if you take me apart, you'll find half of me is you

But half of me is asking me to start anew

[Pre Chorus: Kae Tempest]

You look the same but I don't recognise you

I'm looking you dead in the face and I can't find you

Don't like the way we always talk in the past tense

You can't explain the present till you work out what the past meant

[Chorus: Kae Tempest & Dan Smith]

These are the days that bind us together, forever

Oh these little things define us forever, forever

All this bad blood here

Won't you let it dry? (Woah, oh, ohh)

It's been cold for years

Won't you let it lie? (Woah, oh, ohh)

[Verse 2: Kae Tempest]

There's a man I've known for years and still to this day do I know him

I love him very much, it's very hard for me to show it

Back then and even now I feel there's something that I owe him

And that feeling should be going over time, but no, it's growing

We was kid mates making mistakes, playing give-take

Big hearts battling them big snakes rattling their tails

He was like the wind in my sails

I was like the water for his keel – it was real

It used to hurt my flesh that his worn scars are heated still

He used to hurt his flesh just to see if he could feel

To cut a long short, he was never really the strong sort

Got into the wrong sport – big swigs, long snorts

Caught in that spiral, saw attempts to help as spiteful

And soon he got so down that he got on the brown, word got around

People did not like the sound, they told me to stop popping 'round to see him

I kept disagreeing, soon he was a different being

He got into stealing, robbing, I still see him frequent, often

Eyes are throbbing, weeping, sobbing, freaking out, wouldn't speak about

The things that made him weak, 'cause that would stop his throat mid-sentence

Face would paint repentance but his actions spoke dependence

Friendship became difficult – to say the least, he played the beast

So well I wondered how we'd ever make our peace

That's when we drifted, never argued, it just became clear

The parts of him I loved so well would slowly disappear, but

[Chorus: Kae Tempest & Dan Smith]

Those are the days that bind us together, forever

And these little things define us forever, forever

All this bad blood here

Won't you let it dry? (Woah, oh, ohh)

It's been cold for years

Won't you let it lie? (Woah, oh, ohh)

[Outro: Kae Tempest]

Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide

I'm gonna find you and take it slowly

But those are the days that bind us together, forever (Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide)

These little things define us forever, forever (I'm gonna find you and make you want me)