[Verse 1]

Born on a junk heap in the sea

Cursed with the notion to be free

White and bright and twenty-one

But in my heart I'm on the run

I kissed the lips of eau de vie

I tasted sugar and debris

But in the early morning light

I saw the day destroy the night

Life is a long walk home

[Chorus]

Was it the moonlight

That left you gasping?

Grasping something beyond a boy or a girl?

Just let it all blow

Untie your heartstrings

No, don't cling to this phenomenal world

[Verse 2]

I lost my senses in the spring

Of someone's life that I left behind

And though I search through everything

A sense of loss is all I find

Her face is every work of art

She haunts the city high and low

But I can't live inside her heart

And so I had to let it go

And make my heart my home

[Chorus]

Was it the moonlight

That left you gasping?

Grasping something beyond a boy or a girl?

Just let it all blow

Untie your heartstrings

No, don't cling to this phenomenal world

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Was it the moonlight

That left you gasping?

Grasping something beyond a boy or a girl?

Just let it all blow

Untie your heartstrings

No, don't cling to this phenomenal world