The Blue Nile - The Gift lyrics

Darling don't you understand I feel so ill at ease The room is full of silence and it's getting hard to breathe Take this guilded cage of pain and set me free Take this overcoat of shame It never did belong to me It never did belong to me I need to go outside I need to leave the smoke 'Cause I can't go on living in the same sick joke It seems our lives have taken on a different kind of twist Now that you have given me the perfect gift You have given me the gift For we have fallen from our shelves To face the truth about ourselves And we have tumbled from our trees Tumbled from our trees And I can almost... I can almost hear the rain falling Don't you know it feels so good So let's go out into the rain again Just like we said we always would