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Artist: Matthew and the Atlas
Canonical path: /matthew-and-the-atlas/the-waves
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Waves
Read The Waves lyrics by Matthew and the Atlas on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Waves
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Down in the waves I swam
Pictures and photographs hidden in your hands
And if you go
Then I'll go to
Down to the ocean
With you
This story is over now
You'll see that soon
And while the wood it burned
I stayed too long
Now the stars are out, the stars are out, the stars
Well I'm not afraid of the mess that you made
I've seen your heart
It's tattered and frayed
The skin on my bones and blood in my veins
I'll wait by the ocean
And home...
This story is over now
You'll see that soon
And while the wood it burned
I stayed too long
Now the stars are out, the stars are out, the stars
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Matthew and the Atlas performs "The Waves", and this lyric page sits inside the Matthew and the Atlas catalog on LyroVerse.
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