On The Flip Of A Coin Lyrics - Everything Is Borrowed - Streets

From the point he gazed, from the choice was made 

But walk the cave or the shore 

The oily cave seemed to breathe on him from gravestone jaws 

His little hand grasped in anguish as he weighed up his coin 

Somewhere a blue eyed girl in the world is just waiting for a boy 

Footprints trailed as if trod by slaves up to the gray cave floor 

But not one graze from anything ever escaping this fort 

So with coin on hand his joy came back when ordered to take the shore 

Why on earth, as he wandered the warmth am I obeying this coin 

Turn your life on the flip of this coin 

Turn upside, a choice you'd normally avoid 

And promise me you'll follow what it says 

Whatever it says 

Again, walk within the trusted beach or swim the swell of the sea 

And again the scarier alternative looked like certain death to he 

He'd never learnt to skill of swimming, it never occurred to be very easy 

And again he winced as he flipped his coin and it twirled to his feet 

How is this sane? He blamed the coin now aiming for the waves 

As he hesitated at the swirl of water that now raged and rained 

Blue eyed girls were waiting and he was drowning in the spray 

Blue eyed girls, he should have been acquainted with 

But for shouting and flailing 

Turn your life on the flip of this coin 

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid 

And promise me you'll follow what it says 

Whatever it says 

He finally slugs it back to land feeling chewed up and foolish 

Empties his pockets on the sand spewing a pool each 

Staggers back to his dad who's too cool to be 

So he says, why did you have me follow this stupid rule, please 

To be honest little fellow, I'll tell you I was just as afraid as you 

But you said you wanted to get with people and places ever new 

And I got a bit scared about the fate of my baby son's future 

So I invented a reason to see whether you could ever make do 

As soon as you appeared behind that rock looking angry at me 

I soon realized what a hell of a man you've ended up being 

I knew you'd worked out how to swim which I hadn't had in me 

And I stand as a companion of you proudest a man has ever been 

Turn your life on the flip of this coin 

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid 

And promise me you'll follow what it says 

Whatever it says