You Take Me As I Am

I was nervous in the morning, in a car, a backseat driver With a handful of the chapters from the stories we were starting Every time you crossed the border where the water flows in cascades You were coming with your sister from your mother's in the valley Where the calls of rooks and ravens are the only thing you hear As you imagine yourself living with no phone or electricity We were headed to the outpost where our friends had all assembled To receive us in our glory, where the trees cling for their safety From the edge of the world, and the birds revolved around us As the sea swallowed our vows And after we were married we went to our white stone cottage And you took your simple dress off, and your tears fell in my eyes As we were overcome with wonder at the love around us You take me as i am and turn me into someone Who could step right off this rock and fly out across the ocean 'Cos if i were to die today, then it wasn't all a waste You take me as i am, for all my faults and problems And you build me to withstand every gust and every gale And if i knew i was going to die, well i'd be satisfied 'Cos we've shared this moment On the first night of our future we left the house in convoy As aurora in the corner started sweeping up the stars And we were talking all in whispers for no reason we could think of at all As we clambered through the bracken on our way up to the outcrop Where the wind shakes the gorse and the coast looks like a jigsaw piece The sun rose up around us, all neon pink and purple and gold And way down below the clifftop, the sea broke on the shoreline Without hearing itself roar, without knowing we were here 'Cos it was only doing what it was supposed to, as You take me as i am and turn me into someone Who could step right off this rock and fly out across the ocean 'Cos if i were to die today, then it wasn't all a waste You take me as i am, for all my faults and problems And you build me to withstand every gust and every gale And if i knew i was going to die, well i'd be satisfied 'Cos we've shared this moment Oh, you take me as i am, for all my faults and problems And you build me to withstand every gust and every gale And if i knew that i was going to die, well i'd be satisfied Oh, because we've shared this moment Once you were a stranger, but i struggle to remember Now i picture us as children many years before i met you On the first day of my life, when the day broke like an empty page