Mine Fields (from Years To Hours)

I come home, don't know where you are

You must be working pretty hard

I feed the cat half a can of food

and I sit at the table and wait for you

I don't like doubting that this old love will hold

But I have my moments when I'm just waiting for it to explode

(chorus:)

Oh, no good deals in these mine fields today

It don't matter how I walk, I could get blown away

Underneath the soil and the flowers

I can hear a ticking down from years to hours

There's not a lot of air in this third-floor flat

You want to go outside, you want to get some back

You have said that you cannot breathe

When you're caught up inside here with no reprieve

I have been trying not to hold you to your lines

But I feel you leaning out more all the time

(chorus)

"Forever" is a word I leave on the shelf

I don't want history to repeat itself

So I take it night by night

And I try not to hold you too tight

And I have been dancing up and down the words

Trying to find out why things are not the way they were.

(chorus)