The Stone Roses - Tightrope

You should have been an angel, it would of suited you

My gold-leafed, triptych angel, she knows just what to do

In the half light of morning, in our world between the sheets

I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete

And I know I'll never want another lover, my sweet

Can there be more in this world than the joy of just watching you sleep?

I don't know just what to feel

Won't someone tell me my love's real?

Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand

Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?

Will the sun shine all sweetness and light

Burn us to a cinder, our third stone satellite?

I'm on a tightrope, baby, nine miles high

Striding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the sky

I'm on a tightrope, baby, one thing I've found

I don't know how to stop, and it's a long, long, long

Long way down.

She's all that ever mattered, and all that ever will

My cup, it runneth over, I'll never get my fill

The boats in the harbour slip from their chains

Head for new horizons, let's do the same

I'm on a tightrope, baby, nine miles high

Striding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the sky

I'm on a tightrope, baby, one thing I've found

I don't know how to stop

And it's a tightrope, baby, nine miles high

Striding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the sky

I'm on a tightrope, baby, one thing I've found

I don't know how to stop, and it's a long, long, long

Long way down