The Blanket Of Night - Live - Elbow

Paper cup of a boat

Heaving chest of the sea

Carry both of us

Carry her, carry me

From the place we were born

To the land of the free

Carry both of us

Carry her, carry me

The ocean

That bares us from our home

Could save us

Or take us for its own

The danger

That life should lead us here

My angel

Could I have steered us clear?

Gone the light from her eyes

With the lives that we made

Just the two of us

In the night on the waves

Moving silent her lips

By the moon's only light

Sewing silver prayers

In the blanket of night

The ocean

That bares us from our home

Could save us

Or take us for its own

The danger

That life should lead us here

My angel

Could I have steered us clear?

Paper cup of a boat

Heaving chest of the sea

Carry both of us

Oh, swallow her, swallow me