Stay (Faraway, So Close!) [Songs of Surrender]

Green light, 7-Eleven

You stop in for a pack of cigarettes

You don't smoke, don't even want to

Hey now, check your change

Dressed up like a car crash

Your wheels are turnin' but you're upside down

You say when he hits you, you don't mind

Because when he hurts you, you feel alive

Oh no, is that what it is?

Red lights, grey morning

You stumble out of a hole in the ground

A vampire or a victim

It depends on who's around

Used to stay in to watch the adverts

You could lip-synch with the talk shows

And if you look, you look through me

And when you talk, you talk at me

And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

If I could stay, oh, stay

If I could stay, if I could stay

If I could stay, and the night would be enough (stay)

Faraway, so close

Up with the static and the radio waves

With satellite television, you can go anywhere

Miami, New Orleans

London, Belfast and Berlin

And if you listen, I can't call

And if you jump, you just might fall

And if you shout, I'll only hear you

If I could stay, then the night would give you up (stay)

If I could stay and the day would keep its trust (stay)

If I could stay with the demons you drowned (stay)

Stay with the spirit I found (stay)

Stay, and the night would be enough (stay)

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Three o'clock in the morning

It's quiet, and there's no one around

Just the bang and the clatter

As an angel runs to ground

Just the bang and the clatter

As an angel hits the ground