A Letter to Elise (1990 demo)

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say

I just can't stay here every yesterday

Like keep on acting out the same

The way we act out

Every way to smile forget

And make-believe we never needed

Any more than this

Any more than this

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do

I know I'll never really get inside of you

To make your eyes catch fire

The way they should

The way the blue will pull me in

If they only would

If they only would

At least I'd lose this sense of sensing

Something else that hides away

From me and you

There's worlds to part

With aching looks and breaking hearts

And all the smiles your hands can break

But I can take as much as you can throw

And then throw it all away

Oh I'll throw it all away

Like throwing faces at the sky

Like throwing arms round

Yesterday I stood and stared

Like a stone infront of you

And the way I stared it felt

I looked right out of you

And watching me stand like a stone

I broke inside of you

Elise believe me

Take me away from this

And secretely we'll slip into all our promises

Away from it all

In the cover of the night again

And we watch the years fall

And then we'll cheer it up like this, we do

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say

I just can't stay here every yesterday

Like keep on acting out the same

The way we act out

Every way to smile forget

And make-believe we never needed

Any more than this

Any more than this

And every time I try to pick it up

Like falling sand

As fast as I pick it up

It runs away through my clutching hands

But there's nothing else I can really do

There's nothing else I can really do

There's nothing else I can really do

At all