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Subtly Devoured

from Open Arms EP by Henry Bateman

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lyrics

As he slammed the door
And walked out into the street
She looked out the window
And tried to speak
She gave him a look as if to say
I just can't love you no more

The melancholy music
Rings through their minds
They ignored the truth
But now the lie must die
They drift like ghosts through the house
And they know

Now the tears are streaming down a face
Like a flood destroying any truth that had stayed
As he tried to hold her he looks to the sun:
"Please bring it back to me"

Goodbye lovers
You ignored where your heart was
You forgot the truth and got swallowed in the sea

Whilst we've been waiting
Life's been anticipating
What's going to happen to you, what's going to happen to me
Just look at their souls - 'cause they've been subtly devoured

He sat in his chair
Day and night
Since she had gone
His days had become nights
And he'd just been thinking
About nothing at all

Now he had no friends
No family
He was the last in a line
So lonely
He'd become just a shell
With no future at all

Now he climbs up the stairs into a screaming abyss
Turns out the light and to himself he says this:
"Oh why did she have to go? 'Cause I wish I was dead
Please bring her back to me"

So goodbye loners
You forgot where your soul was
Became lost in misery, dreams were shattered - now you just can't get out

Whilst we've been waiting
Life's been anticipating
What's going to happen to you, what's going to happen to me
Just look at their souls - 'cause they've been subtly devoured

Well she knew the risks
But she couldn't resist
Her attraction to drugs
So all she did was persist
She spent her life out of her mind
Or lost on the streets

The girl that once was
Became so lost too
Inside herself
Now all that showed was a fool
Her family barely knew her
He soul had been drowned

Now she sits by the fire, the tears drip from her face
Somehow she knows she's just so out of place
Her soul died years ago, but not the shell's gone too
Please bring her back to us

So goodbye wasters
You forgot where your life was
Now all that's left is a hollowed out image of you

Whilst we've been waiting
Life's been anticipating
What's going to happen to you, what's going to happen to me
Just look at their souls - 'cause they've been subtly devoured
Just look at their souls - 'cause they've been subtly devoured

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from Open Arms EP, released April 27, 2013

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Henry Bateman England, UK

Henry Bateman is a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist from Gloucestershire, currently based in Leeds.


"Not so much a breath of fresh air - more a full force musical gale that
lifts you to places you didn't know existed. A very extraordinarily gifted
young man; one of the coming musical generation's front-runners in the
making" - John Drummond (Promoter for Brewery Blues, Cirencester) ... more

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