Beautiful failure, sooner or later we'll say so long Unusual stranger, counting the days until the tide runs out We're winding down Hey as long as you can smile you're alive Won't you stay and just breathe for a while? You're a mile away Beautiful failure, growing in greater than the sum of your parting Goodbye familiar alien, huddled with strangers round the fire Escaping the cold, don't cry Hey as long as you can smile you're alive Won't you stay and just breathe for a while? You're a mile away When the bough breaks the cradle will fall And down comes cradle baby and all Beautiful failure, bolder and brighter than the sails That take you away