Contraband - Kirsty McGee

Turn back the clock

Give me my time

Give it back to me

Return what is mine

What you stole from me I cannot conceive

All my sleepless nights you would not believe

Out of my fingers

Slipping through my hands

Like some bird with jewelled feathers

Like contraband

Turn back the clock

Give me my time

Give it back to me

Return what is mine

Oh love, what did you say?

Did you say you were staying

Or going away?

Oh love, what did you mean?

Do I read your words

Or the spaces between?

And I gave you my heart

And it didn’t even sting

A song and a promise and a fine silver ring

What you stole from me I cannot conceive

I had you down for a lover

Never for a thief, and

Oh love, what did you say?

Did you say you were staying

Or going away?

Oh love, what did you mean?

Do I read your words

Or the spaces between?

Oh… oh-oh oh, o-oh oh…

O-o-o-oh, o-o-oh o-o-oh oh

O-o-o-oh, o-o-o-oh o-o-oh oh

From a clamour of voices

Turn me round in the silence

Turn my body round sideways

In the icy cold flow

They say time will heal

But it’s flowing like water

Rolled deep in the river

Like contraband

Oh love, what did you say?

Did you say you were staying

Or going away?

Oh love, what did you mean?

Do I read your words

Or the spaces between?

Oh love, what did you say?

Did you say you were staying

Or going away?

Oh love, what did you mean?

Do I read your words

Or the spaces between?