lying in your arms, and i've never been safer
i can't write like andrea gibson, my words don't flow like that
but i'm trying

and you talk about having babies together
one boy and a girl
and maybe twins
and i never dared hope
til i saw you holding a stranger's daughter
and i swear my heart burst into a million pieces
and you gathered them all up in your grey blue eyes

babe, i don't make plans
i don't like to marry my feet to one path
but i know you do, so i'm trying
i'm looking at paths i thought i'd never dare walk
but with you at my side, i can do anything
just so long as you're holding my hand

today i sent you flowers
one single rose cause i'm saving my pennies
but you don't have pennies in australia, so i'm saving my dimes
so i can buy you a mansion, and a diamond ring
cause even if i don't believe in those things
you do
so we'll get married in a churchyard with 10 flower girls
and a little boy in a tux to bear our rings
if that's what you want

i don't make plans like you do
i look ahead and see the world stretching out from my doorstep
there's no right turns or wrong but only what you make of it
and the only light that guides me is my heart

and then there's you
you who holds me and begs me to turn my ipod off
to stop her words from flowing from my busted up speakers
because you can't bear to see me cry

you who'll hold my hand on buses and in cafes
you who smile at me and lie with my by the ocean
under the moon
and i could swear on that night, the moon wasn't reflecting sunlight
it was reflecting you

or maybe my love for you
cause it shines like a beacon and lights my way home
and i meant every word of my promise:
as long as we're together
i'll always come home to you
you are my home

with your head stretched back and my fingers inside you
with your curls assunder and your eyes limpid in moonlight
with tears on your cheeks from the thought of me hurting
you are my home

your love strikes a chord on my heart
it writes poems in my soul which i thought was stagnent
your fire lights mine and together we'll light the sky
at noontime

from around the world your heart was my light
your voice was my calling and like a soldier coming home, i followed
you fill the cracks in me i thought were cast in stone
you trickle through me like water
you crash upon me like waves on the shore and crush my rocks to sand
then you carry me back into you
holding me and showing me how i can be whole again

you inspire me
you take parts of me i thought were dead and breath life into them
the way i used to blow bubbles in pools in case the fish needed to breathe

BD