On The Rocks (4AD Session)

January calls round to find me

Alone in this place where I've been living

My real home lives down the river

Where she's making circles with her tears

And February blows even colder

And I'll send my love downstream

In words and verses in plastic boxes

She's still unready to take them in

And they're bobbing underneath the bridges

Out to the ocean back

Back on the rocks

And the rain came down back in December

When you told me you were drifting

The waters rose while my door swung closed

On the circles that you lived in

We got so caught up in the swirls and eddies

You never saw where you were heading

Oh you were bobbing underneath the bridges

Out to the ocean and back

Back on the rocks

And spring is only round the corner

As I'm writing you this final letter

I'll drop it in the cool green water

At the bridge where we jumped in together

And I hope it will be carried to you

Cast upon the rocks beside you

And I hope the words serve to remind of

Someone you can leave behind you

Someone who's got a hole inside

Someone who'll be waiting here for you

To take me from this burning bridge

Before I end up back

Back on the rocks