Carrie Newcomer - The Ten O’Clock Line lyrics

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(Verse)

Gone with the grace of a black winged crow

With all the tact of an exit poll

I banked the curve bout the last back road

While you washed your hands in a silver bowl

Didn’t wanna know, that’s the way it goes

(Verse 2)

Pretty words traced in the dirt

A whisper without weight or worth

Nonsense symbols written on the wall

Read by the light of a mirror ball

A final flat line scrawl, that was all

(Chorus)

There’s a whole in the world

I saw it coming for some time

This is how it always ends

On the ten o' clock line

There’s a hole in the world

Maybe it's only a space

For something that's been waiting

Until I turned my face

(Verse)

The leaves recount with a rasping sound

A shadow cast on the autumn ground

It’s a lovely wish, it’s a tender sight

A promise made on shifting light

Bad news from the start but still I gave my heart

(Chorus)

There’s a whole in the world

I saw it coming for some time

This is how it always ends

On the ten o' clock line

There’s a hole in the world

Maybe it's only a space

For something that's been waiting

Until I turn my face

Until I turn my face

(Instrumental break)

(Bridge)

I always thought I would start again

But I was so much younger then

Perhaps no more of just the same

But a deeper song with a different name

The last one had its time up on the ten o' clock line

(Chorus x2)

There’s a whole in the world

I saw it coming for some time

This is how it always ends

On the ten o' clock line

There’s a hole in the world

Maybe it's only a space

For something that's been waiting

Until I turn my face