Round the World Lyrics

Falling on a bed of nails

Close your eyes and take a rest

A hundred thousand pounds of love

Pressing down upon your chest

I could float away from here round the world

Drift along a long long while

But I'd come to rest upon your shores

Born again into your wide-eyed smile

I can't see or hear you now

But like a thought I know you're there

You come exploding through my brain

I can see you hear you everywhere

I could run away from here round the world

On a path that's straight and true

But the truth is lies, the path that cries

Is the one that takes me straight to you

And if I took you in my arms

Would you take my arms away from me?

And if I gave to you my soul,

Would you kill it to set yourself free?

And if I let you come to harm

It might make you come back home to me

Yeah, but life exacts its toll

And it's a price that we pay endlessly

Looking at a parish priest

Looking at a prostitute

Looking for a kinder answer

In a robe disrobed and high heeled shoes

I could fly away from here round the world

Find a place at Heaven's gate

But skin on skin and flesh and bone

Give me too much weight you sit and wait

Oh all around the world

There are boys and there are girls

And all these boys and all these girls

They are living they are breathing all around the world

Oh all around the world

There are boys and there are girls

And all these boys and all these girls

They are buying they are eating all around the world

They are crying they are bleeding all around the world

They are dying they are fleeting all around the world

They are lying they are cheating all around the world

Oh all around the world

Oh all around the world

Now I've floated round the world

Run the path that's not so straight or true

Tried to fly to Heaven's Gate

But apparently I belong to you

You could go away from here round the world

Go away and set me free

But as I turned the other way

I'd see your wide eyed smile coming round to me

So I give to you these arms

And I give to you this soul

And you will never come to harm

Yeah cause I will pay your toll

I give to you these arms

And I give to you this soul

And you will never come to harm

Yeah cause I will pay your toll

Endlessly