Shallow End

Verse 1

Sometimes I pretend

The money that I spend could buy a friend

Selling out for loose change

Wishing that I looked slightly less strange

Pockets full of empty promises I can’t quite keep

Pre-Chorus

But every day it feels the same

Changing everything but my name

Chorus

Give me back the years

The joy and all the tears

Living on the edge of the shallow end

Checking on a heart I can barely mend

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Oh-ooh

It's just another bit of me

Hmm-mm

Verse 2

Don't say you understand

Watching from the dry and level land

Building castles in the air

While you pull the rug beneath my chair

Knowing all the lies were easier to just swallow whole

Pre-Chorus

If I could find a way to make it pay for all the games we play

And stay exactly as I was when we first met yesterday

Chorus

Give me back the years

The joy and all the tears

Living on the edge of the shallow end

Checking on a heart I can barely mend

Post-Chorus

Oh oh oh

Take me as I am

Keep the changes

Nothing stays

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

Wild wind wandering

Breaking through the thick and the thin

Staring at the ceiling while the walls cave in

I am crawling

I am falling

chorus

Give me back the years

The joy and all the tears

Living on the edge of the shallow end

Checking on a heart I can barely mend

Outro

Hmm-mm-mm

Give me back the years

Ooh

Checking on a heart I can barely mend