Lyrics The Verve Pipe – Overboard

Truth lives next to consequence
It comes and goes like winter wind
Blowing across the straits one night
Cold as death and real as sin

There’s a girl in Michigan
Up in Lake Superior
Who’ll never bother us again
Making our lives easier
With alibis so paper thin
Now that she is over me and
Over you and
Overboard

Guide me toward that lonely light
It’s your beacon in the night
Now row us straight back to that shore
With frozen hands and muscles sore
And my back against your back
We glide along the water black
Both knowing there’s no turning back

There’s a girl in Michigan
Up in Lake Superior

Who’ll never bother us again
Making our lives easier
With alibis so paper thin
Now that she is out of sight
And out of mind
And Overboard

She was never gonna let us go
Had a hold on me
And a curse on you
As she lay there pale upon that shore
With her eyes gone black
They once were blue
She could see me for the first time

Now there’s a girl in Michigan
Who’s overboard

Truth moved on from consequence
Just when things were making sense
Her body washed back home to shore
Discovered by a neighbor boy
And now she’s in our lives again
The three of us in shadows