Love Among The Ruins

10000 Maniacs Love Among The Ruins Lyrics
1.Shining Light

Oooooh...

Something was pulling me
Without knowing what was leading me on
Your shining light, your shining light
In my darkest hour, the only way to bring the dawn
Was your shining light, your shining light
But you're unaware your shining light is even on

Like with a little glance when you take me by surprise
And I take a chance and I see it all through your eyes
Free me from my history, show me where to draw the line
By lighting up the mystery, and you don't even know that it
shines

I'm not worried now about flying too close to the sun
Your shining light, your shining light
When December skies are cold
Well, you know I will always run
To your shining light, your shining light
But you're unaware your shining light is even on

Like with a little glance when you take me by surprise
And I take a chance and I see it all through your eyes
Free me from my history, show me where to draw the line
By lighting up the mystery, and you don't even know that it
shines

I won't abuse it, so please just let it glow behind your smile
Let me use it, let me feel the warmth like a little child

Who understands your glance, though it takes me by surprise
And I take a chance and I see it all through your eyes
It's your shining light, from my history, and it pulls me out of
my mind
It's your shining light, you don't even know that it shines (by
lighting up the mystery)

It's your shining, it's your shining light
It's your shining light, oooooh
It's your shining, it's your shining light
It's your shining light, you don't even know that it shines

It's your shining, it's your shining light
It's your shining light, oooooh
It's your shining, it's your shining light
It's your shining light, you don't even know that it shines


2.All That Never Happens

She walks alone on the brick lane
The breeze is blowing
A year had changed her forever
Just like her grey home

He used to live so close, here
We'd look for places I can't remember
The world was safe when she knew him
She tried to hold him, hold on forever, hold on forever

For all that never happens
And all that never will be
A candle burning
For the love we seldom keep

The earth was raw in her fingers
She overturned it
Considered planting some flowers
They wouldn't last long, no one to tend them

It's funny how these things go
You were the answer to all the questions
The memories made her weary
She shuddered slowly, she didn't want to, she didn't want to

For all that never happens
And all that never will be
A candle burning
For the love we seldom keep

As a distant summer
He began to whisper
He threw a smile her way
She looked into the glass
Liquid surface showing
That they were melding together, present, past

So where can I go from here?
The color fading, he didn't answer
She felt him slip from her vision
She tried to hold him, hold on forever, hold on forever

For all that never happens
And all that never will be
A fire burning
For the love we seldom keep

And for all that never happens
And all that never will be
So close forever
In a silent frozen sleep

Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Aaaaah...


3.Rainy Day

On bended knee
I've looked through every window, then
Touched the bottom
The night, a sleepless day instead

A day when love came
Came easy like what's lost, now found
Beneath a blinding
A blinding light that would surround

We were, we were, we were
We were without, in doubt
We were, we were, we were
We were about saving for a rainy day

I crashed through mirrors
I crashed through floors of laughter, then
In a blind scene
No ties would moor us to this room

A day when love came
Came easy like what's lost, now found
And you would save me
And I held you, like you were my child

We were, we were, we were
We were without, in doubt
We were, we were, we were
We were about saving for a rainy day, rainy day

Oh, if I were you, defiant you
Alone, upon a troubled way
Oh, and I would send my heart to you
To save it for a rainy day

We were, we were, we were
We were without, in doubt
We were, we were, we were
We were about saving for a rainy day, rainy day

Oh, if I were you, defiant you
Alone, upon a troubled way
Oh, and I would send my heart to you
To save it for a rainy day

Hey
Ooooh...
Ooooh...
Ooooooh...
Ooooooh...
Whoa...


4.A Room For Everything

Oooooh...

You were looking away from me
Western skies calling you
Colors spilling, running, dazzling you
I was looking the other way
Voices call from the East
I saw my roots of the trees there, planted at my feet

It could be I'm searching
For a place so small
With room for everything
Where worlds on worlds revolve

But how can we wait?

I wouldn't hold you
No, I wouldn't hold you
I wouldn't hold you back

Suppose I was the clever one
And words came easy to me
I could say I was writing a song
About you, you and me

Maybe that verse is yet to be found
But waits inside of me
A secret room, a tangled web
To unweave

It could be I'm searching
For a place so small
With room for everything
Where worlds on worlds revolve

But how can we wait
Knowing our way
How can we hold on
Still, you know it's not too late

I wouldn't hold you
No, I wouldn't hold you
I wouldn't hold you back
I wouldn't hold you
No, I wouldn't hold you
I wouldn't hold you back

I wouldn't hold you
No, I wouldn't hold you
I wouldn't hold you back
I wouldn't hold you
No, I wouldn't hold you
I wouldn't hold you back


5.Love Among The Ruins

La la la, la la la, la la la la, the sky was falling
La la la, la la la, la la la la, Heaven was calling
La la la, la la la, la la la la, when danger crashes
La la la, la la la, la la la la, rose from the ashes

Like two statues hidden inside ancient rock
We were praying for the secrets to unlock
And when the sun had turned its back on us, oooh
In the dark, our love kept track of us, oooh
Pushed together by the lack of love, oooh oooh, run, run, run,
run, run

La la la, la la la, la la la la, the sky was falling
La la la, la la la, la la la la, Heaven was calling
La la la, la la la, la la la la, when danger crashes
La la la, la la la, la la la la, rose from the ashes

We held each other tightly through our Hell of dreams
I still hear the never-endig echo of those screams
But it's a life not made for reliving, it's
A life that makes your soul forgiving, we
Sealed our bond from the beginning, oooh oooh, run, run, run,
run, run

Aching, affection
Vulnerable protection
Falling, captured
Crawling, rapture

La la la, la la la, la la la la, the sky was falling
La la la, la la la, la la la la, Heaven was calling
La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la la, way
La, la


6.You Won't Find Me There

I'd like to know what makes you stay
While your eyes still search for escape
You think that I don't feel the cold, baby
But I wait, while confessions unfold

You'll never make a living from reading minds
Or from getting your direction from exit signs
Look into your heart and you won't find me there

You won't find me where you hide, baby
And that makes us a matter of time
Like trees exposed by fall, baby
Time reveals it all

You'll never make a living from reading minds
Or from getting your direction from exit signs
Look into your heart and you won't find me there

Oooooooh...

Tell me you want to do everything
But you're stuck up to your knees
And I'm less likely pushed forward
By ambition than a breeze

But there's a flame that must be fanned, baby
And it appears as a beckoning hand

Don't think 'cause you're not talking, you're being kind
You've been getting your direction from exit signs
Look into your heart and you won't find me there

You won't find me
Oooh, there
You won't find, you won't find
You won't find me there, oooh
You won't find, you won't find
You won't find me there


7.Big Star

Whoa

I saw a big star running from me
A world from a record on my bed
Turn the tables on me
What would happen if I fell
To the tune of a dreamer
To the tune of my heart

Big star running from me
I saw a world out sunning on my head
Turn the tables on me now
I would fall from Heaven and ring your bell
Baby, catch me
In the middle of a lie

The boys are out tonight
Yeah, the boys are out tonight
The big shots singin' from me
I saw a world out sunning on my head
Pity my heart signals
Center of a storm inside my head

Center of my
Center of my heart
Center of my
Out of time simple mind

From the moon out my window
A wink and a blink and a nod
Had a wish on a star, but
Now it's, now it's falling, now it's falling for me

The boys are out tonight
Yeah, the boys are out tonight
Big skies above me
Signal in my horoscope, it said

Never heed a caution
Never fought a lover
Never cross a street alone
In the middle

The middle of a signal red
Middle of a drinker's heart
Middle of a big parade
A signal in my horoscope


8.More Than This

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing

As free as the wind
Hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this
You know there is nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
You know there is nothing

Oooooh...

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going

No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this
You know there's nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
You know there's nothing

Oooooh...

More than this
You know there's nothing
More than this
Tell me one thing
More than this
There's nothing

Oooooh...

Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Aaaaah...

Oooooh...
Oooooh...
Aaaaah...


9.Even With My Eyes Closed

Even with my eyes closed
Funny, how I know
It's harder, it's harder now
Young girl
In my young girl days
Thinking I could live for always

But like an ocean tide
I'm drawn back inside
And I know

Seasons pass
Like sand inside a glass
And nothing, nothing returns
Standing with the friends I've made
I'll race them to the grave
Well, who won, who won the extra days?

But like an ocean tide
I'm drawn back inside
Like an ocean tide
Drawn back inside
And I know

When you take away the years toll
On the waters wide, shallow high and low
In the autumn sky
Happy to know I'm going home

Even with my eyes closed
Funny, how I know
It's finally, has it finally begun?

An ocean tide (whoa)
I'm drawn back inside
But like an ocean tide (whoa)
I'm drawn back inside
And I know

And I know
And I know


10.Green Children

An August day in the hills of Spain
A pair of children emerged from a cave
The strangest sight there, alone, they stood
With skin of green and words no one had heard

The girl was stronger, the boy was weak
With her new mother, she learned to speak
And wove a tale of a dying sun
They left for darkness, a dark world come undone

They travelled so far
So far
Believing they came from a star

Oooooh
Oooooh

She fell through life
Through time
Through parallel lives

The men of science, the men of fame
The men of letters tried to explain
Was it parallel worlds or a twist of time
To make her think she'd fallen, fallen from her sky

She fell through life
Through time
Through parallel lives

A whirlwind spun them all alone
Took them from their twilight home
Believing they came from a star

Oooooh...
Oooooh...


11.Girl On A Train

Waking on a train, dreaming
Charmed alone, they started speaking
Captured in his artist way
Before the memories fade away
To remember a face
Oooh, and you're home or want to

Certain they would meet soon
Paint a portrait of a family
To remember a face
Oooh, and you're home

Single light on
Single way
Single light away

To remember a face
Oooh, and you're home, the night fell
Saw a painting on the stairwell
To mourn the passing of a daughter dear
Her soul, upon the train, so far, so near

To remember a face
Oooh, and you're home

Single light on
Single way
Single light away
Single light on
Single way

And oooh, and you're home
Just close your eyes and you're home
Just give you time, and you're home
Oooh, and you're home
Oooh, and you're home
Oooh


12.Across The Fields

Oooooh...
Well, they left then in the morning
A hundred pairs of wings, in the light, moved together
Oooooh...
In the colors of the morning
I looked to the clouds in the cirrus sky and they'd gone

Across the marshes
Across the fields below
Oooooh...
I fell through the vines and I hoped they would catch me below

Oooooh...
If only to take me with them there
Tell me the part that shines in your heart on the wind

Across the marshes
Across the fields below
Oooooh...
I fell through the vines and I hoped they would catch me below

Oooooh...
And the reeds blew in the morning
Take me along to the places you've gone when my eyes looked away
Tell me the song that you sing in the trees in the dawning
Tell me the part that shines in your heart and the rays of love
forever
Please take me there

Aaaaah...