“Sophia” is the second single from Nerina Pallot’s album Fires. Released on 2 October 2006, it was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
There are two versions of Sophia. The album version is Nerina Pallot’s vocal accompanied only by piano. The single release fe...
[Verse 1]
Five o'clock and a fire escape symphony
Spilling out across the road and the square
And the sky's the same as your own do ya think of me?
Do the parks and trees and the leaves reach you there?
After the rain, in the lonely hours he haunts me
Callin' out again and again
[Chorus]
Sophia, Sophia, I'm burning, I'm burning
It's a fire, a fire I cannot put out
Sophia, Sophia I'm learning that some things I can't go without
And one of them is him
[Verse 2]
Now I walk the streets like a stranger in my home town
Learn the language form the words when I speak
But he changed me I'm his ghost since he came around
Now I count the hours and the days in the weeks
Passion and silence every word every line a measure
It's the science of the soul
And his books they breathe a reason
And now I wanna know
[Chorus]
Sophia, Sophia, I'm burning, I'm burning
It's a fire, a fire I cannot put out
Sophia, Sophia I'm learning that some things I can't go without
[Bridge]
And you, with your newborn eyes
Have you ever loved a man like I love him?
Do you hurt but still feel alive, like never before?
Oh Sophia
Sophia
[Chorus]
Sophia, Sophia, I'm burning, I'm burning
It's a fire, a fire I cannot put out
Sophia, Sophia I'm learning that some things I can't go without
I can't go without him
Sophia was written by Nerina Pallot.
Sophia was produced by Nerina Pallot.