Recovery - Frank Turner

Written by：Frank Turner

Blacking in and out in a strange flat in east London

Somebody I don't really know just gave me something

To help settle me down and to stop me from always thinking about you

And you know your life is heading in a questionable direction

When you're up for days with strangers and you can't remember anything

Except the way you sounded when you told me you didn't know

What I should do

It's a long road up to recovery from here

A long way back to the light

A long road up to recovery from here

A long way to making it right

And I've been waking in the morning just like every other day

And just like every boring blues song I get swallowed by the pain

And so I fumble for your figure in the darkness

Just to make it go away

But you're not lying there any longer and I know that that's my fault

So I've been pounding on the floor and I've been crawling up the walls

And I've been dipping in my darkness for serotonin boosters

Cider and some kind of smelling salts

It's a long road up to recovery from here

A long way back to the light

A long road up to recovery from here

A long way to making it right

So on the first night we met you said well darling let's make a deal

If anybody ever asks us well let's say that we met in jail

And that's the story that I'm sticking to like

A southern face that comforts but today I need to hear

Some truth if I'm ever getting through this

Yeah you once sent me a letter that said if I was lost at sea

Close my eyes and catch a time idea and only think of me

Well darling now I'm sinking I'm as lost as

Lost can be and I'm hoping you can drag me

Off and down and out to my recovery

If you could just give me a sign and just a subtle little glimmer

A suggestion that you'd have me if I could only make me better

Then I'd stand a little stronger as I walk a little taller all the time

Cause I know that you are cynical but I think

I can convince you yeah cause broken people

Can get better if they really want to

Or at least that's what I have to tell myself if I'm hoping to survive

It's a long road out to recovery from here

A long way back to the light

A long road out to recovery from here

A long way to make you right

Darling sweet lover won't you help me to recover

Darling sweet lover won't you help me to recover

Darling sweet lover won't you help me to recover

Darling sweet lover one day this will all be over