Lyrics

I don't care about the money
Me and money are through
But practical matters are certainly factors
And a bill will always come due
When money runs away through your hands
Don't bother calling it in
Money is nothing but a wondering dog
That dog that never comes home

I left the radio on
To keep the sounds out of my head
So little time that I can call mine
I spent the morning lying in bed
Metals get eaten by rust
And paper's too easy to burn
Home
Is just another place
Where I can never return

Trouble is a good friend of mine
He's been living too much online
Down in the digital life
Trouble can't even make strife

You took all of the money
Left me holding the gun
We were partners in crime, was that just a line
You told me to get me undone?
There's a number I could call to contest my downfall
But that bird has already flown
She left her feathers at the foot of my bed
I don't know where she is gone

There's a moment in the morning
When the sky is getting grey
And the silhouettes of mountains turn to jade
Faces lose their colours and shapes are hard to see
When the night that's not yet over
Lightens by degrees

In the stillness I am speechless, I'm in awe and I'm awake
Attending to a shifting in the stars
I pull away the blanket feel a draft against my skin
I raise myself and lift away your arm

This is not the end they say that life is very long
A bending reed will thicken in the wind
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn

You look so pretty sleeping with your hair across your face
It's hard to leave the softness of your bed
But my mind is through with resting so I might as well get dressed
Make myself some coffee for the way

There's a nightjar sweeping low
And silent in the swale
Hunting in the thickets by the road
I see her take her perch on every sign post that I pass
Marking every pathway as her own

This is not the end they say that life is very long
A bending reed will thicken in the wind
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn

A new day's pressing to be born
But yesterday's not gone
In twilight all the shadows disappear
I look out on the skyline there's a blush along the ridge
A cavalcade of sunlight rolling in

This is not the end they say that life is very long
A bending reed will thicken in the wind
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn
This is not the end I know a brighter day will come
But never with the lustre of the dawn