How Many Times by Paula Kelley Lyrics

[Chorus]
How many times must I throw the line
Before this tiny ship comes crashing to the shore?
Tell me, how many times must I say goodbye
Before I start believing it for sure?

[Verse 1]
When one of you gets word of what I do
It shall be forgone
That pretty soon you all will know the tune
I've been screaming from the gutter for so long

[Pre-Chorus 1]
And pretty blue, the sky from which you flew
I saw your dive
Over time
Filled with circles in my mind

[Chorus]
So how many times must I throw the line
Before this tiny ship comes crashing to the shore?
Tell me, how many times must I say goodbye
Before I start believing it for sure?
[Verse 2]
I misconstrue so much I see right through
Love's great rewards
I make things up and blur the lines and such
That telling me won't matter anymore

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Through dizzy blue, the ground comes into view
I'm still alive
Despite time
All the circles in my mind

[Chorus]
So how many times must I throw the line
Before this tiny ship comes crashing to the shore?
Tell me, how many times must I say goodbye
Before I lose my fear of thinking I'm too late to hear it anymore

[Verse 3]
Before the wind
Before the oxygen that kills us from within
This world had lost its way
The murmuring decay just fills our heads
Tell me how

[Pre-Chorus 3]
I misconstrue so much I never knew
I caused your dive
Over time
Filled with circles in my mind