A'rebours

À rebours, à rebours

You sent for me

I was knock knock knocking on death's door

You ignore, adore, à rebours me

You leave me washed up, begging for more

If you really cared for me

Ah, you'd let me be

You'd set me free

But what you robbed me of is my

Oh, for me, my liberty

The curtain was calling

You were there and à rebours

In the mirror, bawling

If you want it so much you are gonna have it all

Ah, if you really cared for me

Christ knows you'd let me be

You'd set me free

I'm too polite to say it

I defy you all

You know twice as much as nothing at all

It's still nothing at all

I can defy us all

Tides are now turned and hammered it all

Hammered it all

I know, I know, I know

I've been running round this world too much, girl

Pretending not to see

What's drilling me is killing me

Oh no, I think I understand

What I misunderstood before

How your love gives me so much more

I'm free again, I can see again

But if I should fall

Would you vow today to pay tomorrow

The fucked off big debt I owe to sorrow?

Ah, oh, sorrow, sorrow

Ah, oh, ah, oh, sorrow

I know, I know, I know

I know, I know, I know, I know