The Colours That You Know

Verse 1

Sunday came and nobody told me

The kettle's cold on the table by the door

I rolled your coat up in a blanket

Put your books on the topmost shelf to store

Fifty miles between our houses

I count them off on the motorway signs

Saw a field of winter barley

And thought about the colour of your eyes

Chorus

Hold me when the evening settles

Hold me till the morning goes

Stay a little past the last train

Watching all the colours that you know

Verse 2

You said the garden needs a digging

Before the frost gets down into the ground

I borrowed Davey's old wheelbarrow

Took the whole day turning that mud around

Your mother rang to say she missed you

I told her that the weather's turning cold

I kept the phone against my shoulder

Wishing I had said a little more

Chorus

Hold me when the evening settles

Hold me till the morning goes

Stay a little past the last train

Watching all the colours that you know

Bridge

I don't need a reason

I don't need a plan

Just the quiet hum of us together

And the way you understand

Guitar Solo

Final Chorus

Hold me when the evening settles

Hold me till the morning goes

Stay a little past the last train

Watch the colours that you know

Watch the colours that you know