The wind beat your fathers' face,
Every mark with it's own embrace,
I'm here but I won't replace,
How could I anyway?
Those times bred a harder man,
A post war child living mouth to hand,
Built of granite, and grit and sand,
But time erodes
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And you brought in your lines,
On hooks you made together,
Thin metal bent, intertwined,
Stale bread in paper bags
Cared not that the days were dark,
And the nights no better,
Your eyes' welled as the boat would start,
You could have stayed forever,
You're just breathing out, breathing in,
It's all you have it's all you've got to give,
I tried to be your everything,
I couldn't stop these walls from falling in,
Is there a memory you haven't lived?
Is there a word that I can save you with?
Now the silence it is deafening,
Must we break ourselves to start again?
More time she says, I love you more than life I beg,
But I can't read you mind- oh let's dress up and we can go outside?
Over and over and over
We can't live like this,
The telly, the curtains, our union in bits,
I won't leave you now for the sake of the kids,
But you don't see me any more,
Can't you remember what we were before?
You're just breathing out, breathing in,
It's all you have it's all you've got to give,
I tried to be your everything,
I couldn't stop these walls from falling in,
Is there a memory you haven't lived?
Is there a word that I can save you with?
Now the silence it is deafening,
Must we break ourselves to start again?