Martin

This is not what I was after
But I couldn’t stand to be alone
You know I’d never ask for much

I know we’re heading for disaster
Speeding down a spiral road
I knew better than to ask for love

Like I’m somebody else
Someone you knew
Somebody who was close to you
Ain’t it true?
A drop of water works to thin the blood

In some other cut
Of a surging heart
And the bleeding out resumes
Through a wound I could never close off
If I couldn’t even ask for love

To admit that we belong
Isn’t that what we’re all running from?
But the damage is done

We bleed in the exact same way
Share in our residual pain
Forgetting how to ask for love

Did you understand before?
It’s metaphorical
And it hurts
As Iphigenia knows

Could you hold the knife
That’s falling down to sacrifice someone you love?
Because you couldn’t stand to be alone

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
I couldn’t stand to be alone

Someone you knew, somebody who was close to you
Ain't it true?
A drop of water works to thin the blood
And could you hold the knife
That’s falling down to sacrifice someone you love?
Because you couldn’t stand to be alone

This is not what I was after
But I couldn’t stand to be alone
You know I’d never ask for much