All At Once

Album: All At Once (2011)
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  • We were born without time, nameless in the arms
    Of a mother, a father and God
    When the world would wait for us, a thousand years in the crush
    Of our eyes, fearless and awed
    Quietly we'd fade in to sleep, with nothing on our minds

    Then we longed to be loved, in the rush we'd become
    Some things we thought we'd never be
    We were surprised by how hard, left wary and scarred
    From the nights spent feeling incomplete
    And all those evenings swearing at the sky, wishing for more time
    All the promises we broke when we tried, just wasting all our time

    We grow old all at once, and it comes like a punch
    In the gut, in the back, in the face
    When it seems someone's lied and our parents have died
    And we hold on to each other in their place
    And I feel the water rising around us, and maybe that's okay
    Yeah I feel the world changing all at once, I guess it will be okay

    Then we all had one hope, there was someone looking down
    To return our bodies to each other, and the ground Writer/s: Mikel Frans Jollett
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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