Given To The Wild

The Maccabees Given To The Wild Lyrics
1.Child

Never as a child
Would you give this time of day
You would take it from the shadows
And you give it another name

But now it's all that's left
Now it's all that's left

And though it awful gentle takes you
And it awful slowly leaves
It's a weight I wouldn't wish upon
And I wish I wouldn't have to wait

But now it's all that's left
Now it's all that's left
Now it's all that's left
Now it's all that's left

Never as a child
Never as a child
Now it's so vivid
Now it's so vivid
Now it's so vivid
Now it's so vivid

Given to the wild
Given to the wilder ways
While the ways of a child
Are whiled away, whiled away

Now it's all that's left
Now it's all that's left


2.Pelican

So soon we, so soon we, so soon we too old to carry,
And we knew we, and we knew we, and we knew we only had a little
while,
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle, just keep ticking
over,
Before you know it, before you know it, before you know, they
pair and
Pair,
And ooohhh! Oooohhh!

To have it all, to have it all, to have it all, and still want
more,
One things for sure, one things for sure, one things for sure,
we're all
Getting older,
So we take a lover, so we take a lover, so we take a lover,
waitin' in the
Corner,
And before you know it, before you know it, before you know
we're pushing
Up the daisies,
Oooohhh!

And we're going back to where we came from,
For those we fall and those to come and owe is the effort,
And the more,
And again and again and again and again we go,
In the end, in the end, in the end, nothing comes easy,
So you find a way, so you find a way, so you find a way to take
a little
With you,
For the ones you love, for the ones you love, for the ones you
love, are
There if they need to,
The hero, the hero, the hero,
They're not coming with you,
Go back to where we came from,
For those we fall and those to come and owe is the effort,
And the more,
And again and again and again and again,
Gooo! OOOhhh!

So soon we, so soon we, so soon we too old to carry,
And we knew we, and we knew we, and we knew we only had a little
while,
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle, just keep ticking
over,
Before you know it, before you know it, before you know they
pair and pair,
And go back to where we came from,
For those we fall and those to come and owe is the effort,
And the more,
And again and again and again and again,
GGGOOOooo! Gooo!


3.Feel To Follow

How was I to ever believe it
It's never too late
Until it's too late and I'll be stranded
And I'll need something

Now I can see it, and I can feel it
I believe it
Ever since I can remember
It's been as nothing

Until I almost feel to follow
Feel to follow, feel to follow
Feel to follow, feel to follow

How will I ever dare to breathe it
When it's over
I've seen it in another
Someone stronger
They couldn't leave it

Until I almost feel to follow
Feel to follow, feel to follow
Feel to follow, feel to follow


4.Ayla

Aimless am I, listless I'm the blunt of the knife
Drifting to the corners of life, Ayla
I could make something right
Gentle with the kindness I'd like
So often it's a trick of the light, Ayla

And we wait for love in the shape of us
Until the wait is over under halcyon skies
Until the wait is over for an innocent life

It's a weight off my mind I could trust you
You could tell me it's fine
I could sew you a stitch and save nine, Ayla
None more admired and out of soft focused desire
From honeyed milk to funeral pyre, Ayla

And we'll wait for love in the shape of us
But the state of us Daedalus
The wait is over under halcyon skies
The wait is over for an innocent life

The wait is over under halcyon skies
The wait is over for an innocent life
The wait is over, the wait is over...


5.Glimmer

With it all before you, how could it ever go wrong
When water mirrors for you and all that you look on
Just a glimmer from the way beyond
But you're lost today, you're lost today

In each and every tide things are lost
Things we must not lose sight of
No matter if you're tired
Why suppose oracles can let you know

With it all before you, how could it ever go wrong
When water mirrors for you and all that you look on
Just a glimmer from the way beyond
But you're lost today, you're lost today

Between you weigh the cost against damage of
And shore it up against the flood
She's the whitest of your wave through it all,
Through it all, through it all

But you're lost today, you know you're lost today

With it all before you, how could it ever go wrong
Couldn't bear to carry couldn't lay upon
Saw a glimmer from the way beyond where we helped today
Where we helped today, where we helped today...


6.Forever I've Known

I'm a child to your voice
To the sound though it can eat me alive
Ten toes and ten fingers
Any sense that I've had in this life
Won't you stay a while, kill some time
You know that I'll make it easy, easy and I know

Know it wouldn't be forever
Forever I've known nothing stays forever
Couldn't you still try

I want to see you
It's not good enough to have you here in my head
Want the spray from the sea
Come on, I'll make it easy and I know

Know it wouldn't be forever
Forever I've known nothing stays forever

Things I've said in a rage can still be unsaid
Took the cold from my bones
Took the cold from my head and I know

Know nothing stays forever
Forever I've known nothing stays forever

I'm a child to your voice and I know
Know nothing stays forever
Forever I've known nothing stays forever
Forever I've known nothing stays forever
Forever I've known nothing stays forever

And I know
Know nothing stays forever
Forever I've known, forever I've known, forever I've known


7.Heave

Heave another, heave another sigh
We're the last sons
Thought our heads had locked
Heads have parted ways
So headstrong, we're the last sons
Are we so, are we so, are we so, are we so, are we so different
We're night and day, still the same
In the garland frame
Though we left a mark upon a cherub face
Signs of love, waste it all on the young
Are we so, are we so, are we so, are we so, are we so different

Are we so, are we so, are we so, are we so, are we so different


8.Go

Left you, left you there in, there in the sunlight
In the sunshine by the windowsill in the kitchen
In light of what was to come it was not enough

Just like, like the cardboard, the cardboard that covered
The missing panes and cracks in our bedroom windows
We should have known they wouldn't keep out the cold
It was not enough

It's not enough, it's not enough,
It's not enough and it never was

And they'll call out with a name by, a name by which I'd never
call you
And we'll grow out when it's time
And the skins we've known no longer fit us
It's not enough and it leaves you tired

See you, see you there in, there in the sunlight
In the sunshine by the windowsill in the kitchen

And they'll call out with a name by, a name by which I'd never
call you
All things being well still feel it was not enough


9.Unknown

Just while love, just while love, just while love remembers
Just while love, just while love, just while love remembers

Unknow me as hard as it seems
Decide it and feel light on the breeze
And it's alright, you can lean it, you can lean it... on me
And I know it's all you can see and to shake it
To make it fall from the tree
And you're called into the water
And it holds you like a tropical disease
And you lean into the weather and it drops you, drops you

Just while love remembers
I was given these lungs
And I won't be ashamed no more
We were ripped from those arms
They no longer protect us


Just while love remembers
I was given these lungs
And I won't be ashamed no more
We were ripped from those arms
They no longer protect us

Just while love, just while love remembers
Just while love, just while love remembers
Just while love, just while love remembers


10.Went Away

Look at you with slimmer lines
Dirty toes un-showered
Unholy sight the state of you
And every sign that you're wired again

Just look at you in the trolley line
Wild eyed you're still flying
A little less and a little more
In the middle ground you're still miles away

So hold me close don't let me go, I need you so
Tell me something I don't know, that I need to know
Hold those arms around my neck, I need you so
Somewhere sunk behind those eyes a man I've always known

And if you go to sea again
We'll see it out to horizons
To see it all it's a little late
And better never but it's happening

So hold me close don't let me go, I need you so
Somewhere sunk behind those eyes a man I've always known
That never went away...
Hold me close don't let me go, I need you


11.Slowly One

In every quiet moment
In every little silence
Every small reminder where you find her
With every left light on
Let alone
Every little loving word said out of love
Going cold

Little by little by little by little... I'm laid down
Little by little by little by little... I'm laid down

I can go wherever
Still the same
Every small reminder of a name
Any half measures
Any pleasures
Every new encounter that's not her
Leaves you cold

Little by little by little by little... I'm laid down
Little by little by little by little... I'm laid down

Some day you're going to wake up
And think you went a day without
Some day you're going to wake up
And think you went a day without
Going cold


12.Grew Up At Midnight

Outside of the window
I was sticking with you
We were only kids then
We'd get soaked right through
We used to tell them
I was staying at yours
Sheltered in our own world
We'd watch the rain right through

We grew up at midnight
We were only kids then
We grew up at midnight
We were only kids then

Loving woman, loving man
Here for you doing the best we can
Hard to figure, hard to bare
Hard to think knowing how much you care
It's the strangest thing through thick and thin
All this time kept the promise you made
If you're telling I'll be told
I'll come running and be there as soon as I can

Outside of the window
I was sticking with you
We were only kids then
We'd get soaked right through
We used to tell them
I was staying at yours
Sheltered in our own world
We'd watch the rain right through

We grew up at midnight
We were only kids then
We grew up at midnight
We were only kids then
But that night we knew