Rewind

Album: A Moving Picture (2013)
Charted: 10
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  • When the sky breaks it rains
    So just let the H2O splash upon the graves
    Of all the souls I used to know but now have passed away
    Men say that time can heal a situation
    But this pain is not a passing phase
    Now I'm curious how many years a heart can ache
    Feel like a Minotaur meandering this darkened place
    Trying to find a way to maybe find the light of day
    If I could rewind then I'd re-live my life again
    And sit and hold my nan's hands while she felt the pain
    And say hello to old mates behind the pearly gates
    Given the chance to glance back at my childish face
    I'd try and smile the way I smiled just like a child again
    Before I had to say goodbye to anybody
    And the loved ones I've lost all had life within their bodies
    My side was less lonely then
    You wanna cry well come and hold me then
    I think I need the blessing of some holy men

    'Cause everything is different now
    I'd really like to tell you how
    How I wanted you here by my side
    I know what I said but I lied
    It looked like I laughed but I cried
    But I wish I could push rewind

    If I had minutes on my hand just like a time piece
    I'd turn the clocks back and maybe try to find peace
    As well as my ID, so rewind me
    Just like a video cassette cause I'm upset that I ain't seen
    Some faces in a while just apparitions in my dream
    That ends abruptly when they try to hug me through the screen
    Of smoke that's engulfing me
    Like the coastline with its high tide
    And you can see the sands and the oceans meet
    No one told me when this ride began to hold my seat
    Time flies like Emmet Brown was in the driver's seat
    You talk of irony
    Well now I'm lonely
    But I'm searching for my privacy
    This life won't comply with me
    I think I need some dead relatives either side of me
    To keep me company and guide me through the library
    Of neverending stories full of lies and deceit
    Hi Ho Silver, Lone Ranger riding to the beat

    'Cause everything is different now
    I'd really like to tell you how
    How I wanted you here by my side
    I know what I said but I lied
    It looked like I laughed but I cried
    But I wish I could push rewind

    If I could rewind time to its slowest
    I'd look at life at its heights and its lowest
    So I could maybe try to recollect
    What made me who I am besides a poet
    Besides a poet

    How I wanted you here by my side
    I know what I said but I lied
    It looked like I laughed but I cried
    But I wish I could push rewind Writer/s: BENJAMIN ALEXANDER KOHN, DIANE BIRCH, JAMES JOHN DEVLIN, PETER KELLEHER, THOMAS ANDREW SEARLE BARNES
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Peermusic Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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