Boats Against the Current - Ryan O'Reilly

Run your hand along my arm, inside my jacket sleeve

Let your tears fall in your smile, I can hardly breathe

With my hands upon your hips you took our flag down to half mast

When we turned to face each other we were already in the past

The emptiness fills me and it’s tidal like the Thames

If the numbness ever leaves me I won’t want this pain to end

Is it possible to change this, what would you like to ask

Is there a river we can follow ceaselessly towards the past

I was blind to all those candles, heard the music felt your dress

I shut my eyes your lips you gave to me for one last sweet caress

Don’t you give our love a eulogy I can’t watch you close the door

It was winter time the first time but time’s not been stopped before

You said you dreamed that I was holding you, I kissed your eyes your

lips your hair

You cried that was my goodbye to you, I only wish babe I’d been there

Remember when I ran away to Dublin you wrote and told me to stay strong

You’ve only been gone a few hours but they’re tortuously long

The chalice holds the poison and it’s fermented by our fear

Put our love into a four foot hole, a foot for every year

Yesterday I had you, but it would be the last

The doors are locked and they’ve been bolted

It’s trapped us in the past

I can picture you so perfectly your hat down to your shoes

You said I’ve never been an adult and not belonged to you

Remember Magheramore that time I held you safe in both my hands

But the tide was unrelenting breaks the rocks down into sand

We didn’t wait to hear the bell this time we knew it had just been rung

Our cobbled streets they were alive with all the carols being sung

Can our love end so suddenly, I’m not sure if it’s true

Every time I dry my heavy eyes I still think I’ll see you

I drove for hours and for miles after you got out the car

I couldn’t listen to those love sick songs because they don’t know who we are

I reached across to feel you but nothing now feels right

The stars are dancing heel to toe across the endless night

I will draw the curtain you can take a sweeping bow

We remembered all our lines babe no-one had to show us how

Be careful that you do not slip upon the newly painted stage

I expected your directions but not times exquisite rage

Whoever you discover who next walks you to your door

Or dares put his hands where my hands used be

To dance across your bedroom floor

I hope he will understand you’re worth much more than he could know

Will you think of us from time to time and let our time together show

The pearls they would destroy us because that’s not a diamond ring

Maybe I was scared to show you but you did mean everything

I only understand you only you know all of me

Is this how Adam felt the day that Eden set him free?