you may have gone
but you've never been far away, love
the only one
to keep me waiting for an ultimatum
i suggest the best is still undressed
i guess that silent was the way to stay, love.

turned away
towards distant and foreign directions
you've made me pay
the promissory notes in your collection
don't turn away
don't go astray
don't turn away, again love

my dream's been dashed
like a line you'll never sign your name on
a soggy page
in a bottle on its way to china

the tingling in the words you sing
a stinging heart is what i'm sick of hiding.

turned away
towards distant and foreign directions
you've made me pay
the promissory notes in your collection
don't turn away
don't go astray
don't turn away, again love

your open eyes
can see a man that you've left behind, love
those lonely times
when you wish we had reconciled
i think if we'd been listening
the dream would be kept alive still

turned away
towards distant and foreign directions
you've made me pay
the promissory notes in your collection
don't turn away
don't go astray
don't turn away, again love