Crack the Shutters

Album: A Hundred Million Suns (2008)
Charted: 43
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  • You cool your bed-warm hands down
    On the broken radiator
    And when you lay them freezing on me
    I mumble, "Can you wake me later?"
    But I don't really want you to stop
    And you know it so it doesn't stop you
    And run your hands from my neck to my chest

    Crack the shutters open wide
    I wanna bathe you in the light of day
    And just watch you as the rays
    Tangle up around your face and body
    I could sit for hours
    Finding new ways to be awed each minute
    'Cause the daylight seems to want you
    Just as much as I want you

    It's been minutes, it's been days
    It's been all I will remember
    Happy lost in your hair
    And the cold side of the pillow
    Your hills and valleys
    Are mapped by my intrepid fingers
    And in a naked slumber
    I dream all this again

    Crack the shutters open wide
    I wanna bathe you in the light of day
    And just watch you as the rays
    Tangle up around your face and body
    I could sit for hours
    Finding new ways to be awed each minute
    'Cause the daylight seems to want you
    Just as much as I want you

    Crack the shutters open wide
    I wanna bathe you in the light of day
    And just watch you as the rays
    Tangle up around your face and body
    I could sit for hours
    Finding new ways to be awed each minute
    'Cause the daylight seems to want you
    Just as much as I want you Writer/s: GARY LIGHTBODY, JONATHAN GRAHAM QUINN, NATHAN CONNOLLY, PAUL WILSON, TOM SIMPSON
    Publisher: Unison Rights S.L., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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