Leaves do fall

You've been gone too long

Where can you be

They said three months

You'd come for me

I've shouted "where?"

Out at the sea

'Cause your my love, my family

I've waited for the leaves to fall

For old John Wayne to save us all

I want out both my hands and knees

I'm a desperate girl and that terrifies me

Can you hear me love?

My heart's the sea

It swirls and breaks

Since we can't be

I'm gonna build this sail

And they'll need me

Then we'll have kids, a family

I've waited for the leaves to fall

For old John Wayne to save us all

I want out both my hands and knees

I'm a desperate man and that terrifies me

(Hey, ey-)

Baby birds don't sing

In this old tree

And I've come down

Listen to the sea

So I must go

My bones cost me

To an earthen home to cradle me

I've waited for the leaves to fall

For old John Wayne to save us all

I want out both my hands and knees

I'm a desperate girl and that terrifies me

I praise the lord, now "I'll do it"

For an ancient promise

I could not keep

But I'm her lover

And death do me

This swirling ocean

Is the end of me

I've waited for the leaves to fall

For old John Wayne to save us all

I want out both my hands and knees

I'm a desperate man and that terrifies me

(Hey, ey-)