Over You Lyrics - Tooth & Nail - Billy Bragg

This street is named for flowers 

It's barren, hot and gray 

And shadows wheel on iron heels 

And move along their way 

The light that soothes me evening 

Has cut me clean in two 

But my blood, it runs with stars 

And they've fallen over you 

Now the birds have stopped their whaling 

They've been whaling all their fear 

The town is meaningless, folks unseen by us these many years 

The waiting crowd in this blinding light like angry rivers do 

But silence builds a bridge which is swinging over you 

It used be the wicked who surrender but no more 

They'll draw a line through heart of mine, then smooth it like a row 

' host give up their ghosts like death is nothing new 

But I could live forever when I'm dying over you 

I may learn someday to offer more than what I feel 

To set aside this wholesome pride and put my shoulder to the wheel 

Build our truth then raise the roof and not confuse the true 

But still we stand of rafters and the swing and there's laughter risen over you