Winters And Passengers Go Hand-In-Hand

by Ruth Russell · January 9, 2018

In today’s post, I will be sharing with you my favorite songs by Passengers that I think will brighten up your winter.

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My favorite songs by Passengers

Let Her Go

Favorite verses:

“Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you’ll make a dream last
But dreams come slow, and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you’ll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies

But you only need the light when it’s burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go”

Things That Stop You Dreaming

Favorite verses:

“Well if you can’t get what you love

You learn to love the things you’ve got
If you can’t be what you want
You learn to be the things you’re not
If you can’t get what you need
You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming
All the things that stop you dreaming

Well I’ve got no ones word and nobody’s promise
Not a lot to show but this book full of sonnets
And my liver may be fucked but my heart is honest
And my word is true
Like the sky is blue
In the summer time when everybody gets on it
Warm our skins and get sunburnt from it
And our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets that shoot like silver trains
Yeah our eyes shine bright like a sky full of comets that shoot like silver trains

Life’s For The Living

Favorite verses:

“I took myself down to the cafe to find all the boys lost in books and crackling vinyl
And carved out a poem above the urinal that read
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what you’re given
Life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead”

“While pigeons pecked trains, sparks flew like planes
The rain showed the rainbows in the oil stains
And we all had new iPhones but no one had no one to call”

“Well I’m sick of this town, this blind man’s forage
They take your dreams down and stick them in storage
You can have them back son when you’ve paid off your mortgage and loans
Oh hell with this place, I’ll go it my own way
I’ll stick out my thumb and I trudge down the highway
Someday someone must be going my way home”

“Till then I’ll make my bed from a disused car
With a mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars
And I’ll stitch the words into my heart with a needle and thread
Don’t you cry for the lost
Smile for the living
Get what you need and give what you’re given
You know life’s for the living so live it
Or you’re better off dead”

Holes

Favorite verses:

“I know a woman with kids around her ankles and a baby on her lap
She said one day her husband went to get a paper and the motherfucker never came back
Mortgage to pay and four kids to raise, but keeping the wolf from the door
She said the wolf’s just a puppy and the door’s double locked so why you gotta worry me for

Cause he left a in hole in my heart a hole in a promise a hole on the side of my bed
Oh now that he’s gone well life carries on and I miss him like a hole in the head”

“Well sometimes you can’t change and you can’t choose
And sometimes it seems you gain less than you lose

Now we’ve got holes in our hearts, yeah we’ve got holes in our lives
Where we’ve got holes, we’ve got holes but we carry on”

Hearts On Fire

Favorite verses:

“Well I don’t know how and I don’t know why
But when something’s living well you can’t say die
You feel like laughing but you start to cry
I don’t know how and I don’t know why

Well I don’t have many and I don’t have much
In fact I don’t have any but I’ve got enough
‘Cause I know those eyes and I know that touch
I don’t have many and I don’t have much

But oh darling my heart’s on fire
Oh darling my heart’s on fire
Oh darling my heart’s on fire
For you”

All The Little Lights

Favorite verses:

One went out at a bus stop in Edinburgh
One went out in an english park
One went out in a nightclub when I was fifteen
Little lights in my heart

One went out when I lied to my mother
Said the cigarettes she found were not mine
One went out within me now I smoke like a chimney
Its getting dark in this heart of mine
Its getting dark in this heart of mine

We’re born with millions of little lights shining in the dark
And they show us the way
One lights up
Every time you feel love in your heart
One dies when it moves away

One went out in the backstreets of Manchester
One went out in an airport in Spain
One went out I’ve no doubt when I grew up and moved out
Of the place where the boy used to play

One went out when uncle ben got his tumour
We used to fish and I fish no more
Though he will not return
I know one still burns
On a fishing boat off the new jersey shore
On a fishing boat off the new jersey shore

We’re born with millions of little lights shining in the dark
And they show us the way
One lights up
Every time we feel love in our hearts
One dies when it moves away

We’re born with millions of little lights shining in our hearts
And they die along the way
Till we’re old and we’re cold
And lying in the dark
Cos they’ll all burn out one day
They’ll all burn out one day
They’ll all burn out one day
They’ll all burn out one day

Whispers

Favorite verses:

“Well I’ve got open eyes

And an open door
But I don’t know what I’m searching for
I should know by now

Well I’ve a big old heart
This I know for sure
But I don’t know what my love is for
I should know by now

Well I wait in line
So I can wait some more
‘Til I can’t remember what I came here for
But I can’t leave now
‘Cause I’ve a light that shines
And a love so pure
But I don’t know what to use them for
I should know by now

Well I spent my money, I lost my friends, I broke my mobile phone
3 a.m. and I’m drunk as hell, and I’m dancing on my own
Taxi-cabs ain’t stopping, and I don’t know my way home
Well it’s hard to find a reason, when all you have is doubts
Hard to see inside yourself when can’t see your way out
Hard to…”

Keep On Walking

Favorite verses:

Well, last night I couldn’t sleep
I got up and started walking
Down to the end of my street
And on into town

Well I had no one to meet
And I had no taste for talking
Seems I’m talking my whole life
It’s time I listen now

Well I walk passed the late night boys
With their bottles in their doorways
And I walk passed the business men
Sleeping like babies in their cars
And I thought to myself, “Oh, son
You may be lost in more ways than one”
But I’ve a feeling that it’s more fun
Than knowing exactly where you are

Like a stone
Carried on the river
Like a boat
Sailing on the sea
I’ll keep on walking
Oh, I’ll keep on walking
Until I find that old love or that old love comes to find me

Well, I walked into the morning and felt the warm sunlight forming on my shoulders
‘Cos it hit me with no warning like a summer sky storming in my lungs
Ain’t it funny how the kids walk by?
They’ll do anything to make themselves look older
While the women spend their money on anything that makes them look young

Like a stone
Carried on the river
Like a boat
Sailing on the sea
Oh, I’ll keep on walking
Well, I’ll keep on walking
‘Til I find that old love or that old love comes to find me

Oh, lo lo
Oh, oh oh
Oh, lo lo
Oh, oh oh

Well I’m like a stone
And I’m carried on the river
Like a boat
Sailing on the sea
Oh, well I’ll keep on walking
Well, I said I’ll keep on walking, oh
‘Til, I find that old love or that old love comes to find me
‘Til, I find that old love or that old love comes to find me”

Scare Away The Dark

Favorite verses:

“Well, sing, sing at the top of your voice
Love without fear in your heart
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

We wish our weekdays away
Spend our weekends in bed
Drink ourselves stupid
And work ourselves dead
And all just because that’s what mom and dad said we should do

We should run through the forests
We should swim in the streams
We should laugh, we should cry
We should love, we should dream
We should stare at the stars and not just the screens
You should hear what I’m saying and know what it means

To sing, sing at the top of your voice
Love without fear in your heart
Feel, feel like you still have a choice
If we all light up we can scare away the dark

Well, we wish we were happier, thinner and fitter
We…”

This is all we have on today’s post on my favorite songs by Passengers. This is, however, not an exhaustive list, and if we have missed out on some of your favorites, then please feel free to add them in the comment section below.

Until next time!

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