Band: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Song: Sink Ships Album: Cardinology Capo 3 Sunlight falls on your hands As you type, just something in my head standing in, this empty space, your desk is gone the wall still dark..from where it when This position is not open now for applicants the application forms got shreaded there were faulty wordin' in the documents I can still hear you laughin' coming up the rickity stairs laughing as the springtime filled your lungs with air grey smoke hung out like patches in your hair like fire like birds inside a bell I break those prows in back of my mind while the sun is out, no it's still up and the light is shining the season push and pull enough to get us through well my mind is open like a door to an empty room This position is not open now for applicants the application forms got shreaded there were faulty wordin' in the documents I can still hear you laughin' coming up the rickity stairs laughing as the springtime filled your lungs with air grey smoke hung out like patches in your hair like fire like birds inside a bell if Somehow I'd have known i'd rather come down with the ship than be without you if only for the chance to hold you hand to be your friend I never got there last time i'd rather come down in this the war is over, the war is over, the war is over and I'm waiting in the sinking ships If only I had known If only I had known