I went and woke up sick today
Choking on words I cannot say
Afraid I'll never be OK
Collaborate and listen
The thing you've bought that you've adored
The diamond flawed you can't afford
A parody, a cheap reward
So modulate and glisten
The tide comes in
Swallowing the moon-lit shores
That we played on years ago
It seems
The tide goes out
The past is washed away
And here we stand now
Born clean
Now overdrawn but underspent
And wonder how you'll make the rent
So just ignore the accident
Because my make-up's stunning
It's so easy to acquire
The moment wet, the passion fire
But later stripped down to the wire
Fickle, sick and running
The tide comes in
Swallowing the moon-lit shores
That we played on years ago
It seems
The tide goes out
The past is washed away
And here we stand now
Born clean
This immaculate fear
This tide of regret
This dream of tomorrow
I cannot forget
This pain in my chest
This gleam in my eye
This delirious joy
This particular taste
The remembrance of years
All the years that I'd waste
Now the moment is here
And I think I could die
And still I'm drunk and flying blind
But there's a beacon in my mind
Take 13, and then rewind
Then I wake up back in town
And while my footsteps fall unsure
My heart's desire is clean and pure
Though my disease may have no cure
I ante up and double down
The tide comes in
Swallowing the moon-lit shores
That we played on years ago
It seems
The tide goes out
The past is washed away
And here we stand now
Born clean
