It Breaks

    Milly passes from the swing
   [bad word] home for her tea
    Wants to twist her wedding ring
    And sink in her settee
    In the dark she asks aloud
    If they can really see
    But if you hold it carefully it breaks

    On a fairground ride they met
    boy who held her hand
    For a moment he'd forget
    And she would understand
    But the bells inside her head
    Were all that she could hear
    But if you hold it carefully it breaks

    And just like the book says
    You might be through with the past
    But she's not through with you

    We don't give up easily
    Drowning out the tide
    Drawing black and bleeding sea
    At least we stopped and tried
    And the crows flock overhead
    Moving restlessly
    And when you hold it over me it breaks

We don't give up easily
Drowning out the tide
Drawing black and bleeding sea
At least we stopped and tried
In the dark she asks aloud
If they can really see
But if you hold it carefully it breaks
(Eventually)