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Accidents Don’t Just Happen Lyrics by David Knopfler

Songs for the Siren

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If numbers are a doorway to understand this dance
There’s a fractal hidden some place, in the grace of each romance
For many years you hung around in fear of situations
In prayer you longed for balance but I offered complications
There’s a calculus for the black mass of every dying sun
A calculated gravity for every soul undone
And when you gave me your hungry tongue, everything was changes
Everything! and nothing now could ever be the same then
When accidents don’t just happen, accidents don’t just happen
When you are twenty one and you know where you belong
Somewhere down your blown-out street is a passage to redemption
A mystery as constant as our distance and intention
How two strangers come to meet and suffer to belong
It’s a consummate equation from where salvation comes
‘Cause accidents don’t just happen, accidents don’t just happen
When you are twenty one, and you know where you belong
The maths of chance are like the moon spinning around the earth
Turning on that axis you’ve been burning since your birth
In you I’d seen the promised land like Heaven all along
I was your dream but it was God’s own song
‘Cause accidents don’t just happen, accidents don’t just happen
‘Cause God has got your number and you know where you belong
And your number’s twenty one
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David Knopfler

David Knopfler

About “Accidents Don’t Just Happen” by David Knopfler

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"Accidents Don’t Just Happen" appears on "Songs for the Siren".

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