Overland, West of Suez

Album: Quicken The Heart (2009)
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  • Overland the desert sands are born
    An all too brief exchange
    The details somehow got waylaid

    Neither of us were born to be leaders
    But you made the first move to escape
    Closer than me to the equator
    I looked you up on graph paper
    Not as close as we once were, oh no.

    Undeterred, a man of words was born
    Your vocation came
    You found your target and took aim

    Take me to where bodies glide

    Graceful underneath the waves
    Closer than me to the equator
    I looked you up on graph paper
    Not as close as we once were, no.
    Not as close as we once were, no.

    I thought I saw your older sister
    I was gonna ask after you
    West of Suez, East of Britain
    I was gonna ask after you
    'Cause she looked so much like you
    I meant to ask after you. Writer/s: Archis Tiku, Duncan Robert Lloyd, Lukas James Wooller, Paul Anthony Smith, Thomas Alexander English
    Publisher: Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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