Portraits Album Lyrics by Birdy

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Paradise Calling

Riding high
When I was your star, mm
Lightning strike
Right at the heart, mm

Paradise calling
All I ever wanted
Something to believe in, oh-oh
Something to believe in, oh-oh
Both eyes wide open
So high, still falling
If you could only feel, oh-oh
If you could only feel

Our love
Our love

Light us up
Open the door, oh, oh, oh

We could find a way out the dark
This could be the spark
And you don't know the ways of the heart
This could be start

Paradise calling
All I ever wanted
Something to believe in, oh-oh
Something to believe in, oh-oh
Both eyes wide open
So high, still falling
If you could only feel, oh-oh
If you could only feel
Our love

We could find the way out the dark, the dark
You don't know the ways of the heart, the heart
We could find the way out the dark, the dark
You don't know the ways of the heart, this could be the start

Paradise calling
All I ever wanted
Something to believe in, oh-oh
Something to believe in, oh-oh
Both eyes wide open
So high, still falling
If you could only feel, oh-oh
If you could only feel

Our love
Our love
Our love
Our love

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Raincatchers

Bared my soul to you
And here comes the rain again
Once the weight of the world was a feather
Sweet innocence
There is a dusty room
Kept for a friend
Through the windows to the world I had opened
When will I see you again

We used to be the raincatchers
And we couldn't see what we were running from
You made me feel like nothing really matters
Here in my dreams we're raincatchers
Come back to me, like it was before
You made me feel like nothing really matters
Nothing really matters

If we let this run
Caught on a river
Everything that we left unspoken
Will never be said
And you forgot (miss you always)
But I remembered (I remembered)

We used to be the raincatchers
And we couldn't see what we were running from
You made me feel like nothing really matters
Here in my dreams we're raincatchers
Come back to me, like it was before
You made me feel like nothing really matters
Nothing really matters

If I call now
Would you listen?
The shaking ground
Do you feel it?
If I call now (if I call now)
Would you listen? (Would you listen?)
Shaking ground (if I call now)
Would you feel it?
Far away
I'll remember

We used to be the raincatchers
And we couldn't see what we were running from
And you made me feel like nothing really matters (nothing really matters)
Where have you been, raincatcher?
Come back to me, like it was before
You made me feel like nothing really matters
Nothing really matters

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Ruins I

Sweet surrender comes
After the dawn
We knew it was over long before
Don't look over your shoulder as you go
Dreams we made like grains of sand
You built me up to tear me down
Awakening on broken ground
Don't look back for me, can't sant save you now

It's a cold, cold life
We'll never be the same again
I was blind
Now I'm seein' through it
It's a cold, cold life
You'll never see me again
You and I
Will lie in ruins

Wavin' your white flags through the smoke
You tell me you want me, I know you don't
Leave it behind, give up the ghost
Don't look over your shoulder as you go
So how long have you known?
When you were beside me, was I alone?
So how long have you known?
How I see you now, it's cold

It's a cold, cold life
We'll never be the same again
I was blind
Now I'm seein' through it
It's a cold, cold life
You'll never see me again
You and I
Will lie in ruins

Ruins
Ruins
Ruins
We'll never be the same again
Ruins
Ruins
Ruins
We'll never be the same again
Ruins
Ruins
Ruins
We'll never the same again
You and I
Will lie in ruins

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Your Arms

Who could say what would follow
Big holes in the dark
I couldn't say where you'd gone to
But every night I would ask

When hope went away
I still held on
To the love that you gave
Oh, it's all I've got of you now

I would never know you
Don't get to understand
No answers to questions
It's too late for that
But I was in your arms
I was in your arms
I was in your arms
Your arms once
Just for a moment

I'll remember you my way
It's not perfect or fair
But I'll paint you with colors
That world over there

Feels harder these days
After so long
'Cause my memory fades
And it's all I've got of you now

I would never know you
Don't get to understand
No answers to questions
It's too late for that
But I was in your arms
I was in your arms
I was in your arms
Your arms once

And these are tears because you're gone
For all the years that we lost
All those times I missed that laugh
Had it just for a moment

I would never know you
Don't get to understand
No answers to questions
No, it's too late for that
But I was in your arms
I was in your arms
I was in your arms
Your arms once
Just for a moment

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Heartbreaker

Feel like I've been reading you wrong
And we've tilted from where we started
If someone's gonna let go
It's me that's gotta let go
I'm damned if I do, gonna be damned if I don't, oh

You say one more dance and I always give in
(I don't know what I'm doing)
(I don't know what I'm doing)
I'm falling in your arms trying to save everything
(I don't know what I'm doing)
(I don't know what I'm doing)

Heartbreaker
It was over right from the start
Heartbreaker
And nothing's ever gonna be enough
Heartbreaker
I wanted you to be but you're not

Been too long, too long holding on
To this blindfold hoping and praying
We both know the truth is, we're already losing
Damned if I do, gonna be damned if I don't, oh

You say one more dance and I always give in
(I don't know what I'm doing)
(I don't know what I'm doing)
I'm falling in your arms trying to save everything
(I don't know what I'm doing)
(I don't know what I'm doing)

Heartbreaker
It was over right from the start
Heartbreaker
And nothing's ever gonna be enough
Heartbreaker
I wanted you to be but you're not

Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker (illusions only last for so long)
Heartbreaker (I wanted you to be but you're not, but you're not)

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I Wish I Was A Shooting Star

Is anybody home upstairs?
It's been a shitty night
If I'm honest, I'm a little scared
And a bit too high

Oh, I'm in a dark haze
But you will never know
What it's like in the shadows
You say I'm bound for miserable

So tell me how I'm meant to feel
I'm dying to get out of here
Ah, ah
I wish I was a shooting star
I'd burn out as the world admired
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Will anybody ever care?
As much as they don't
The universe seems unfair
Maybe mine is broke

Oh, I'm in a dark haze
But you will never know
What it's like in the shadows
You say I'm bound for miserable
So tell me how I'm meant to feel
I'm dying to get out of here
Ah, ah
I wish I was a shooting star
Burn out as the world admired
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Oh
Oh (take me in from the night)
What I'd give to feel the light
One taste of what it's like
Burn out and never die
Oh (take me in from the night)
What I'd give to feel the light
One taste of what it's like
Burn out and never die

Is anybody home upstairs?
It's been a shitty night

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Portraits

Writin' you down like you're mine on the lines of my body
Call me obsessed but I'd die if you were to speak to me
(Dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more)
Dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more
Out on the street, you're in my dreams, wouldn't dare to embrace you
(Dancin' more, dancin' more)
No other choice but to watch you and then recreate you
(Dancin' more, dancin' more)
Dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more

Dancin' for portraits of you
Portraits of you
Portraits of you in my room

(Dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more)
Baby, the fantasy ends with every imperfection
(Dancin' more, dancin' more)
Started all over again just to keep your attention
(Dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more)
Touchin' you, ooh
Dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more, dancin' more

Dancin' for portraits of you
Portraits of you
Portraits of you in my room
Portraits of you
(Too many) portraits of you
Portraits of you in my room

Portraits of you
Portraits of you
Portraits of you in my room (ah, ah)
Dancin' for portraits of you
Portraits of you
Portraits of you in my room (portraits)

Dancin' more, dancin' more
More
In my room
I wouldn't leave
In my room
Oh, my room
Portraits of you
Portraits of you
Portraits of you

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Ruins II

Say what you want to
Never cared much for talking
Watching the walls move
And all our secrets coming out
What's left between us?

You have the right to walk away
It's all right in your hands
But there's a dreamer that wants to believe that we're good enough

If we lie here
We made our bed
Stay forever
In the lion's den
But if we choose it
We could see the light again

If we die here
What'll they say?
Another young love
Gone to waste
We're in ruins
But oh, oh, babe
I know that we can make it out
I know we're gonna make it out
Say we're gonna make it out
Are we gonna make it out?

All of the rest go
Sitting back and losing
Cracks in the ceiling
And if you want to
I'll fall right in your hands
There's a dreamer that wants to believe that we're still enough

If we lie here
We made our bed
Stay forever
In the lion's den
But if we choose it
We could see the light again, oh

If we die here
What'll they say
Another young love
Gone to waste
We're in ruins
But oh, oh, babe
I know that we can make it out
I know we're gonna make it out
Say we're gonna make it out
Are we gonna make it out?

Mm, out, out, out, out, out
Out, out, out, out, out

(We can make it out) you and I, you and I
Were golden once
You and I, you and I
Were golden once
You and I, you and I
Were golden once
You and I, you and I

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Automatic

(Yeah, oh)
If I reach out for you (yeah, oh)
Will you pull me towards you? (Yeah, oh)
There's a voice that's callin' (yeah, oh)
Me into the forest in the night
And I hear you talkin' (yeah, oh)
And my heart is stallin' (yeah, oh)
Not gonna reach down for you (yeah, oh)
I've already cut the wires

Don't ask me to need you like that
Don't ask me to give what I can't
Don't ask me to love you
Don't ask me to love you, no

I, I don't cut through the static
Maybe I think too much about it
If I could love you automatic
I would
Oh, you make it sound so simple
Drop my gun and act on impulse
If I could love you automatic
I would

Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would love

If I'm on my senses (yeah, oh)
Could I try pretendin'? (Yeah, oh)
Couldn't be so reckless (yeah, oh)
To hide in the corners of my mind
When I caught sight sterlin' (yeah, oh)
Couldn't say it for certain (yeah, oh)
Bet it won't hurt you (yeah, oh)
I know how to kill the fire

You know, I, I don't cut through the static
Maybe I think too much about it
If I could love you automatic
I would
Oh, you make it sound so simple
Drop my gun and act on impulse
If I could love you automatic
I would

Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would love

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
I would
Oh, oh, oh

Automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would
Love automatic, I would
Love

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Battlefield

I could brace, I could brace hard
Brace my heart for the big gun
I don't want, I don't want to, my love
I just want you to stay

Tried to keep you in my dreams
Tried to bottle with the kiss
Tradin' kisses with the stars
They won't listen, no one does
Tried to hold you with my word
Laid it down to offer all
But there's no sayin' words enough

'Cause out here, it's a battlefield
No savior, no yield
Out here, it's a ragin' war
Is anyone countin' tears at all?
Out here, it's a battlefield
We can't always get what we want

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

Where do we go from here?
The horse on the run (oh, oh)
Where do we go from here?
When the last side reached the sun (oh, oh)
And when you brought me here
How can we be apart? (Oh, oh)

Out here, it's a battlefield
No savior, no yield
Out here, it's a ragin' war
Is anyone countin' tears at all?
Out here, it's a battlefield
No savior, no yield
Out here, it's a ragin' war
Is anyone countin' tears at all?
Out here, it's a battlefield, ooh
Out here, it's a battlefield, ooh
Out here, it's a battlefield
We can't always get what we want

Oh, oh, oh
Oh

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Tears Don't Fall

Who knows where you begin
And where I end?
Particles collide
We're never the same again
And I know that we're hurtin'
But don't wish we never met
'Cause once you were my everything
And I'll never forget

Tears don't fall
We are standin'
Dust to dust
It was us
We were dancin', oh
Tears don't fall
We were happy
Look at us
We were dancin', oh

I remember you by my window
Smokin' your cigarette
With your eyes on me
The way that we felt, oh
And in time
Love's all that is left
So this is goodbye
No regrets

Tears don't fall
We are standin'
Dust to dust
It was us
We were dancin', oh
Tears don't fall
We were happy
Look at us
We were dancin', oh

(Ah)
We were dancin' (ah, oh, oh)
We were happy

Tears don't fall
Tears don't fall
Tears don't fall
Tears don't fall (tears don't fall)
Tears don't fall (tears don't fall)
Tears don't fall (tears don't fall)