The Once - Charlie’s Lyrics

The rain is pouring
The wind is blowing
And the water is raging
And you, your hands are bleeding
The lines are cutting
And still so much work left to do

The years made you tougher
Not pain, not hunger
Could turn you away from the sea
You don't have a choice
So I won't raise my voice
When you wake every morning and leave

And how many times did my heart skip
Inside my chest when I slept by the phone
And how many times has this window held my breath
When I'm thinking of you all alone

Will you swing me around
With my feet off the ground
Don't ever let me go
Sway to and fro, and though you don't know
Whisper to me each night
"I'll always make it back home"

It's the fall of the year, and the skies have cleared
I'm breathing a sigh of relief
The winter brings comfort to this house
Our number we let it one become three
When she was born, in the twilight of morn
You held my hand as I cried
Eighteen years later, three sisters we made her
You looked in your daughter's blue eyes
And oh, they all said that my heart made no sound
When hoisted me up on the bough
But I can recall a face in the squall
It's the face that looks back at me now

Will you swing me around
With my feet off the ground
Don't ever let me go
Sway to and fro
And though you don't know
Whisper to me each night
"I'll always make it back home"
"I'll always make it back home"

Clouds are parting, the sun is rising
And the moon it still lingers past dawn
Your voice in my ear I can hear it so clear says
"Dinie take the wheel and hold on"
"Oh you take the wheel and hold on
While I swing you around
With your feet off the ground
I won't ever let you go
Sway to and fro
And though you don't know
And whisper to me each night

Will you swing me around
With my feet off the ground
Don't ever let me go
Sway to and fro
And though you don't know
Whisper to me each night
"I'll always make it back home"
"I'll always make it back home"