Missy Higgins The Sound Of White - They Weren't There (hidden track) Lyrics

Like a freeze-dried rose
You will never be what you were
What you were to me in memory
But if I listen to the dark
You'll embrace me like a star
Envelope me, envelope me...

If things get real for me down here
Promise to take me to before you went away
If only for a day
If things get real for me down here
Promise to take me back to the tune we played before you went away

And if I listen to the sound of white
Sometimes I hear your smile and breathe your light
Yeah if I listen to the sound of white...
You're my mystery, one mystery
My mystery, one mystery

My silence solidifies
'Til that hollow void erases you
Erases you so I can't feel at all
But if I never feel again
At least that nothingness will end
The painful dream of you and me...

If things get real for me down here
Promise to take me to before you went away
If only for a day
If things get real for me down here
Promise to take me back to the tune we played before you went away

And if I listen to the sound of white
Sometimes I hear your smile and breathe your light
Yeah if I listen to the sound of white
Sometimes I hear your smile and breathe your light
And if I listen to the sound of white

I knelt before some stranger's face
But I'd never have the courage or belief to trust this place
But I dropped my head 'cause it felt like lead
And I'm sure I felt your fingers through my hair...

And if I listen to the sound of white
Sometimes I hear your smile and breathe your light
Yeah if I listen to the sound of white...
The sound of white...
The sound of white...
The sound of white

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You breathed infinity into my world
And time was lost up in a cloud and in a whirl.
We dug a hole in the cool grey earth and lay there for the night.
Then you said, "wait for me we'll fly the wind,
We'll grow old and you'll be stronger without him" but oh,
Now my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,
But I was alive and now I've drowned.
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song
So they can tell me I was wrong...

But they weren't there beneath your stare,
And they weren't stripped 'till they were bare of
Any bindings from the world outside that room.
And they weren't taken by the hand
And led through fields of naked land
Where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...
So I couldn't say "no".

You sighed and I was lost in you, weeks could've past for all I knew.
You were there blanket of the over-world and so I couldn't say,
I wouldn't say "no". But they all said, "you're too young to even know,
Just don't let it grow and you'll be stronger without him"
But oh, now, my world is at your feet. I was lost and I was found,
But I was alive and now I've drowned.
So now I will be waiting for the world to hear my song
So they can tell me I was wrong...

But they weren't there beneath your stare,
And they weren't stripped 'till they were bare
Of any bindings from the world outside that room.
And they weren't taken by the hand and led through fields
Of naked land where any pre-conceived ideas were blown away...