Eric Andersen

Lie With Me Lyrics



So lie with me and be my love just for now

Stay with me all through the night

Be as close to me as you can be

Til morning sets you free





When you saw me I was broken,

I was scattered in the dust

Like the way you feel sometimes,

when you feel too much

You put your hands around my face

like a circle 'round the sun

When I thought that it was finished

it had only just begun



So lie with me and be my love just for now

Stay with me all through the night

Be as close to me as you can be

Til morning sets you free, again



You shine across the morning

as I turn to face the east

You told me how to give away

things never meant to keep

Your love is rolling like a wave

that breaks right over me

One hand can hold the ocean

but will never stop the sea



So lie with me and be my love just for now

Stay with me all through the night

Be as close to me as you can be

Til morning sets you free



Your skin it looks so golden

standing naked in the sun

Your soul it feels so holy

as close as the earth can come

A wave can cut a stone to sand

and the wind can break your bones

I'm wondering how you're doing now

when you are alone



So lie with me and be my love just for now

Stay with me all through the night

Be as close to me as you can be

Til morning sets you free, once again, once again



ALTERNATE LYRICS:



He was just a prisoner

Prisoner of your pain

Whose sentence was to serve you

Let you love again

If you go away,

He'll still be singing in his chains

Behind the walls of knowing

There was no such thing as blame



Refrain



Deeper than the ocean

Wider than the sea

The loneliness you harbored from

A love that was deceived

How did you ever know

What the answer couldn't be

The dying's almost easier

Than trying to believe again



Refrain



Your eyes they are so empty now

So pale in the sun

Your heart it is so weary

From not wanting anyone

With every breath you take

It's for the love that didn't come

Still longing for the day

You thought your life had just begun



Refrain