Wait, for this life to be (over), travelling from the mountains to the sea We're more than halfway there, from Vaila Hall to Stanyan Street There was a time when songs saved your life Fly I shall and flee we must, how I shone when no one was watching This is the way of the waves The tide has left me here The crooked path never ceases to end This is the way of the waves And somewhere, not far away, in a foreign town A strange girl, I never really knew, is shifting the furniture around I have driven that road so often I have driven that road so long This is the way of the waves The tide has left us here The crooked path never ceases to end (it never ends) This is the way of the waves What the waves were always saying And you all went home those nights and forgot While I still search for something that brings me peace Shine unseen, then disappear Shine unseen, then disappear This is the wish that didn't come true shine unseen, then disappear This is the curse, we are all cursed shine unseen, then disappear But our ghosts will forever stay shine unseen, then disappear And the city glows in the night shine unseen, then disappear