Snow Patrol – The Symphony

Wooden floors, wooden floors whisper
And they creak under your sockless feet
A secret door, a door undiscovered
You knock so gently in case you’re heard
A record plays a song that you’ve not heard
It is perfect, it is home
Everything, now everything’s different
It is sweeter on your tongue

Cause you can see the road ahead in your dream
And the engine’s more a sigh than a scream
And your ghosts look more like angels from there
And the coast comes like a raft of warm air

A symphony, slow music of longing
Plays in movements inside your head
There are no ghosts, no ghosts that can shake you
Like they used to, anymore

Cause you can see the road ahead in your dream
And the engine’s more a sigh than a scream
And your ghosts look more like angels from there
And the coast comes like a raft of warm air

You can see the road ahead in your dream
And the engine’s more a sigh than a scream
And your ghosts look more like angels from there
And the coast comes like a raft of warm air

If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you’ll get

Snow Patrol – The President

I’ve run to ground
I’ve run from everyone that I have ever known
I’m aching cold
I’m aching from the bones the very blood of me

And it’s broke before you know it
Before you knew what it was for
All you know is you can’t fix it
And you wish you’d listened more
To your instincts to your family
To the wisdom you’d ignored
Are you finally gonna ask us for help?

I’ve crashed to earth
But I’d fallen for so long that it was just relief
I saw your face
In everyone that looked me in my drunken eyes

And it’s broke before you know it
Before you knew what it was for
All you know is you can’t fix it
And you wish you’d listened more
To your instincts to your family
To the wisdom you’d ignored
When you finally gonna ask us for help?

I can see you at the front gate
As you wait on my return
The years have blurred to eons
But the tears have never dried
But I’m not coming to you like this
So battered down and sad
I will take the road forgotten again

Snow Patrol – The Garden Rules

There’s the river, there’s your house and there’s the church
And there’s us years ago
Deep in your garden where the nettle met the rose
Is where we’d hide ourselves

Yes, we were just kids
But you couldn’t tell us that
These are the garden rules
It’s what you always said

Oh, you will never know how much I love you so
Oh, you will never know how much I love you

You would call the garden rules, out like commands
And we would all obey
But you’d stifle giddy laughter as you spoke
And puncture the pretend

And we would chase our tails
Until the sun forgot to shine
And our parents called our names
Till just you and I were left

Oh, you will never know how much I love you so
Oh, you will never know how much I love you

From your house we walk the river
To the church by the silent fields
Amongst the lavender and headstones
And the larks in our Sunday clothes
Your father calls to you
As he’s looking at his watch
You leave me with a kiss
On my quickly heating cheek

Oh, you will never know how much I love you so
Oh, you will never know how much I love you
Oh, you will never know how much I love you so
Oh, you will never know how much I love you

Oh, you will never know how much I love you so
Oh, you will never know how much I love you
Oh, you will never know how much I love you so
Oh, you will never know how much I love you

Snow Patrol – Life-ning

A hand upon my forehead
The joke and then the laugh
Waking up in your arms
A place to call my own

This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life

Ireland in the world cup
Either north or south
The fanclub on the jukebox
The birds and yes the bees

This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life

Words of reassurance
But only if they’re true
Just some simple kindness
No vengeance from the gods

This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life

To share what I’ve been given
Some kids eventually
And be for them what I’ve had
A father like my dad

This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life

This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life
This is all I ever wanted from life

Snow Patrol – In The End

It’s the price I guess
For the lies I’ve told
That the truth it no longer thrills me

And why can’t we laugh?
When it’s all we have
Have we put these childish things away?
Have we lost the magic that we once had?

In the end, in the end
There’s nothing more to life than love, is there?
In the end, in the end
It’s time for us to lose our weary minds

Will you dance with me?
Like we used to dance
And remember how to move together

You are the torch
And it all makes sense
I’ve waited here for you forever
I’ve waited here for you forever

In the end, in the end
There’s nothing more to life than love, is there?
In the end, in the end
It’s time for us to lose our weary minds

We’re lost ’til we learn how to ask
We’re lost ’til we learn how to ask
We are lost ’til we learn how to ask
So please, please just ask

In the end, in the end
There’s nothing more to life than love, is there?
In the end, in the end
It’s time for us to lose our weary minds
There’s nothing more to life than love, is there?

Snow Patrol – I’ll Never Let Go

It seems the day that your house burned to the ground
Was the day that you’d always planned to leave anyway
And the vast empire you come through to get here
Makes the world look like pennies in my hand

I’ll never let go
I’ll never let go you said out loud
I’ll never let go
I’ll never let go you shouted out

Your words shook me right out of a daydream
I was lost somewhere cold and it looked haunted
I was asking strangers but no one understood me
I was drenched in sweat when your words came to me

I’ll never let go
I’ll never let go you said out loud
I’ll never let go
I’ll never let go you shouted out

It was the last highway you would ever travel
The long road from a daughter, wife and son
When the bus stopped a beat from California
Your tired feet they ached over the road

I’ll never let go
I’ll never let go you said out loud
I’ll never let go
I’ll never let go you shouted out