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When one year ends and another begins and the sky is a shower of sparksWith your skinny girls arms with the hairs on their ends like exclamation marksWell I admit I was scared, I felt unprepared if I need you tell me where you'll beYou said It's not surprising, just look to the horizon, it's the circle in the middle is meA week in the hospital, always sick when you were little, you were brittle like butterfly bonesI wish I had been there to run a comb through your hair - it always smelt like smoke and pine conesBut then the devil shot through, you got stronger as you grew but they treat you like you're never the sameYou filled your one good lung and bit down hard on your tongue just to keep yourself from going insaneOh Oh OhOhAnd the rides keep on turningAnd our lives insist on turningAnd my mind it keeps on learningBut I can smell something burning mmmNow in a minute or less I tried to confess every single thing I've learnt so farIn a skirt that you'd stolen as the road was unrolling and unreelin' 'neath the wheels of the carNo I haven't been drinking, I don't know what I was thinking but it really don't mean a thingShe said do me a favour if you wanna be my saviour then you're gonna have to wait 'til the springShe said do me a favour if you wanna be my saviour then you're gonna have to learn how to sing From Letras Mania