I remember lying in the dark
Cautiously telling you about those other women
About the lies in their eyes and the nights between their thighs
I felt silently forgiven
What a fool I was to ever think
I could ever speak so candidly
What a fool I was to ever think
I could handle what you'd handed me

Because I had tread water in the shallows before
Scared to plumb the depths even if I wanted more
But you wanted to drown, and when we wash up on the quays
I'm scared I'll be all dried up with nothing left to say

And you'll look at me
And you'll say to me

We're just extras
Reading someone else's lines
I'm all out of inclination
And you haven't got the time
Baby it's all been said and done
There's no one left for us to be
And I think that if you still love me
Maybe you should set me free

I remember drinking too much whiskey
You had been drinking too much wine
And you gently whispered to me
That you wanted me to find
Ways to worship you
That no one had before
So I smashed your stained glass windows
And kicked in all your doors
What a fool I'd been to think that I could ever stand before
That bare and flawless altar
What a fool I was to drink that sacrament you poured
And think I would never falter

Because I had tread water in the shallows before
Scared to plumb the depths even if I wanted more
But you wanted to drown, and when we wash up on the quays
I'm scared I'll be all dried up with nothing interesting to say

And you'll look at me
And you'll say to me

We're just extras
Reading someone else's lines
I'm all out of inclination
And you haven't got the time
Baby it's all been said and done
There's no one left for us to be
And I think that if you still love me
Maybe you should set me free (x2)

But while the orchestra plays dirges
To an empty house
Baby if you've got any urges
I think you should let 'em out
Let's shake the dust off of these rafters
With nothing but the sound
Of your love and your cries and laughter
Before they bring that velvet curtain down