I Didn't Come Here to Surrender

Overnight, wide awake on a crowded flight

The last luggage on the belt, you know I didn't really sleep

Although I tried in vain, I thought of you in the New York rain

Life's uneventful anyway, the same thing happens everyday

I'm feeling fragile at the centre

But I didn't come here to surrender

Over time, all the seasons begin to rhyme

The silences grow longer but the beat gets louder by design

The thunder rolls, the rivers rise

The dams all break, the boats capsize

I'm feeling fragile at the centre

But I didn't come here to surrender

Surrender, surrender

Surrender, surrender

Overwrought, so defeated by gloomy thoughts

Now nothing's going right at all, and I can't see the light

Although I try in vain, I think of you in the New York rain

Meet me where the floods began, that shattered derelict expanse

I may look weak, I may seem tender

I didn't come here to surrender

Surrender, surrender

Surrender, surrender

Surrender, surrender

Surrender, surrender