Under Streetlight

1:
Waiting here on the corner under streetlight,
While the engine slowly rumbles in the dark.
I can’t see you, will wait here till you come.

1:
That one day where we met, me at the door while you
just smiled my way and said come in.
I could not believe I had never seen you before.

2:
Standing in the door made you look so much brighter,
with the sun around you and I realised I was staring.
He’s not home right now but you can come in.

1:
Waiting here on the corner under streetlight,
While the engine slowly rumbles in the dark.

2:
I can’t see you, will wait here till you come.

1:
If only I had waited for your husband to come home,
if only I could have resisted you.
While the hours melted away that day became days,
filled with sweet kisses and you against me.

2:
I knew when you stood there that I could stop,
that blue jeans suave with your tools in your hand.
With your tender hands and promises so sweet,
I knew that he would be mad.

1 & 2:
Waiting here on the corner under streetlight,
While the engine slowly rumbles in the dark.
I can’t see you, will wait here till you come.

1:
The day the trouble landed was the day that he found me,
in the dusty pub drying the dishes, snarling how I should let you be.
I tried to reach as fast I could,
but too late for the wild storm that he raged.

2:
That the night that he promised he would end me,
with his hands of steel and grip around my neck, as I ran to the door,
watched it swing open with you there. One blow while door closed.
There he lay, still bleeding with his eyes wide in horror.

1 & 2:
Waiting here on the corner under streetlight,
While the engine slowly rumbles in the dark.
I can’t see you, will wait here till you come.

1:
What now my love, what now? I only wanted him to stop.
You are bleeding, still I see so much red.
That one blow, so sharply ended him.
Do you think we could go?

2:
My love, my love, you fought for me, saved me from his rage.
He would have ended me. Such bravery from my stone-cold love.
Under streetlight around the corner, wait for me.
Go now, go. I’ll meet you there.

1 & 2:
Waiting here on the corner under streetlight,
While the engine slowly rumbles in the dark.
I can’t see you, will wait here till you come.
1:
Time ticks slower but my pulse races. We are leaving it all here.
Leave behind us the ignorance in town, the blood on my hands.
I choose to leave with you for ever more.

2:
I’ve taken the last of me from his world, no photos, or memories.
Down this road I walk to where your headlights light the path.
I can see you through the windows now,
The door creaks open and closed.
Leaning we kiss each other as the car begins to move.

1 & 2:
Waiting here on the corner under streetlight,
While the engine slowly rumbles in the dark.
I can’t see you, will wait here till you come.

Nothing that will keep us as take the long road away from here.
Stopping to look again over the hills of that old town,
Where ignorance just bled us dry.
Now and forever the road our only home.

Waiting here on the corner under streetlight,
While the engine slowly rumbles in the dark.
I can’t see you, will wait here till you come.