Water grey
Through the windows, up the stairs
The water.
It was flooding.
I wouldn't make it.
There was no way I could make it out.
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere
I ran through the house, out into the streets, splashing through the water.
I had to get to the bridge. He'd be at the bridge.
He would wait for me.
I knew he would wait there.
I raced across another street, and there was the bridge. He was there.
At the othe side. I stepped on, running hard, trying to make it…
Reaching for him.
The water hit me.
I was swept off, crying
"Help, Arthur!"
Reaching for him.
Don't want to reach for me do you
He let me fall, sadness in his face.
I mean nothing to you
That look. I knew it. He had no care for me.
No concern over my life.
The little things give you away
That look.
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
The bridge was gone.
I was under water, falling backwards, crying out to Arthur to help me.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
I always admired him.
Always cared.
And six feet under water
I
Do
I gazed upwards, through the clear water, staring as the face of the one person I loved grew further away from me.
Hope decays
Generations disappear
He knew.
He could tell.
He could have stopped that war. But I had no hope for myself while I was a colony.
I had to get out.
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
I felt myself being pulled away by the current, still reaching for him.
My England, my Arthur.
Gone.
He just stood there and stared.
Don't want to reach for me do you
He made no move.
I mean nothing to you
He barely even registered that I had fallen.
The little things give you away
He never called me Alfred.
But there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
I pushed upwards, trying to get out of the water.
I had to get to him.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
I broke the surface, gasping and coughing.
"Arthur! England! Please…!" And I was pulled back under.
Falling.
And six feet under water
I
Do
Seeing him.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
Remembering.
And six feet under ground now
I
Now I do
I gazed up. I was dead. He couldn't- wouldn't try to save me.
I would drown.
I should have seen it coming.
Little things give you away
His face.
Little things give you away
He was angry; I betrayed him.
Little things give you away
He wasn't with me.
Little things give you away
Why wouldn't he help me?
Little things give you away
Arthur!
~Little things give you away~
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
I always loved him.
~Little things give you away~
He knew that.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
Tears make no difference under water.
~Little things give you away~
I couldn't understand.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
Why?
~Little things give you away~
That moment.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
Our two hands touching.
~Little things give you away~
He pulled back.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
I didn't think about it.
~Little things give you away~
I loved him.
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
I'd always loved him.
~Little things give you away~
And I would love him with my dying breath.
