We were just three 26 year olds Sitting in a bar I was daydreaming about being a star And he said he might be Batman That I might doubt it but he can Make me believe As he wipes his nose with his sleeve And I was tickled by the games we play As Rock Paper Scissors goes my way And Sinéad is on my other side She’s kind of the way I hide My true heart from you Coz I’m scared you might want to Take this down below And I’m a no show When it comes to that I just want you to love me back As we talk about Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse And I’m hearing the words just drop from your mouth In a year from now We’ll be in that age somehow Coz we were all born on the 9-0 And I don’t want to wake up though To you gone And I’m drunk and so long Rings in my head as I write an essay about you Sinéad’s asleep and it’s a quarter past two And I write your name on a bar mat Coz I wanna remember you like that And there’s no way I’ll see you again But I catalogue a range of men And you made the cut I touched your hand and it was what You didn’t say that led me on And I’m singing my own song As I reminisce and I might have cried Coz there are people I’ve loved who’ve died And it’s more than nothing just to know You can love someone who let you go And all I know is the Stillorgan Road Is somewhere the traffic slowed As it went by your house And you live with your sister and your mouth Looks inviting But the in-fighting In my brain pushes me away I just want to remember you, okay In two page and a half of semi slurred ink Will be a reminder of someone that I think Is pretty awesome cool You’re even better than learning in school All that I’ve come to be I hope that you’re reunited with me In some future dream I grasp you and I pull a seam
My heart won’t let me make a life with you And it’s not because I don’t want to It’s just because the ocean spans The way he moves the music with his hands The way he rustles leaves and trees The way my faith always believes In something I can’t hold onto It’s choiceless freedom loving you