You Take Me As I Am-Stornoway

[ti:You Take Me As I Am] [ar:Stornoway] [al:Tales from Terra Firma] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You Take Me As I Am - Stornoway [00:39.04]I was nervous in the morning in a car a backseat driver [00:42.85]With a handful of the chapters from the stories we were starting [00:47.16]Every time you crossed the border where the water flows in cascades [00:55.85]You were coming with your sister from your mother's in the valley [00:59.97]Where the calls of rooks and ravens are the only thing you hear [01:04.10]As you imagine yourself living with no phone or electricity [01:08.47] [01:12.81]We were headed to the outpost where our friends had all assembled [01:17.44]To receive us in our glory where the trees cling for their safety [01:21.59]From the edge of the world and the birds revolved around us [01:25.77]As the sea swallowed our vows [01:30.60]And after we were married we went to our white stone cottage [01:34.35]And you took your simple dress off and your tears fell in my eyes [01:38.94]As we were overcome with wonder at the love around us [01:44.45]You take me as i am and turn me into someone [01:51.69]Who could step right off this rock and fly out across the ocean [01:55.87]'Cos if i were to die today then it wasn't all a waste [02:04.62]You take me as i am for all my faults and problems [02:08.44]And you build me to withstand every gust and every gale [02:12.68]And if i knew i was going to die well i'd be satisfied [02:19.75]'Cos we've shared this moment [02:22.00]On the first night of our future we left the house in convoy [02:26.00]As aurora in the corner started sweeping up the stars [02:29.81]And we were talking all in whispers for no reason we could think of at all [02:38.75]As we clambered through the bracken on our way up to the outcrop [02:42.81]Where the wind shakes the gorse and the coast looks like a jigsaw piece [02:47.50]The sun rose up around us all neon pink and purple and gold [02:58.06] [03:13.31]And way down below the clifftop the sea broke on the shoreline [03:17.19]Without hearing itself roar without knowing we were here [03:21.46]'Cos it was only doing what it was supposed to as [03:29.63]You take me as i am and turn me into someone [03:34.31]Who could step right off this rock and fly out across the ocean [03:38.51]'Cos if i were to die today then it wasn't all a waste [03:47.01]You take me as i am for all my faults and problems [03:51.32]And you build me to withstand every gust and every gale [03:55.26]And if i knew i was going to die well i'd be satisfied [04:02.57]'Cos we've shared this moment [04:05.07]Oh you take me as i am for all my faults and problems [04:25.56]And you build me to withstand every gust and every gale [04:30.16]And if i knew that i was going to die well i'd be satisfied [04:42.05]Oh because we've shared this moment [04:47.99]Once you were a stranger but i struggle to remember [04:51.61]Now i picture us as children many years before i met you [04:55.99]On the first day of my life when the day broke like an empty page