Tightrope

[Verse 1]

You should have been an angel

It would of suited you

My gold-leafed, triptych angel

She knows just what to do

In the half light of morning

In our world between the sheets

I swear I saw her angel wing

My vision was complete

[Bridge]

And I know I'll never want

Another lover, my sweet

Can there be more in this world

Than the joy of just watching you sleep? (Ahh)

I don't know just what to feel (Ahh)

Won't someone tell me my love's real?

[Verse 2]

Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand

Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?

Will the sun shine all sweetness and light

Burn us to a cinder, our third stone satellite?

[Chorus]

I'm on a tightrope, baby, nine miles high

Striding through the clouds on my ribbon in the sky

I'm on a tightrope, baby, one thing I've found

I don't know how to stop

And it's a long, long, long, long way down

[Verse 3]

She's all that ever mattered, and all that ever will

My cup, it runneth over, I'll never get my fill

The boats in the harbour slip from their chains

Head for new horizons, let's do the same

[Chorus]

I'm on a tightrope, baby, nine miles high

Striding through the clouds on my ribbon in the sky

I'm on a tightrope, baby, one thing I've found

I don't know how to stop

And it's a tightrope, baby, nine miles high

Striding through the clouds on my ribbon in the sky

I'm on a tightrope, baby, one thing I've found

I don't know how to stop

And it's a long, long, long, long way down

[Outro]

(Ah, put your head)