She left this morning
She left no forwarding card
I watched her pack
And without looking back
She drove out of the yard
"Friends are only ghosts" she said
"They fade and fall apart"
They never stick around
When the going gets hard-nosed, strong-boned

Spin me round, I'm blindfold
Once upon a time somebody told me
I was going to be someone
I was supposed to be someone
Now one half likes to carry, wants to share
I want to hold the candle
Load the gun for you
Only load the gun for you

But the other half

Come and ask me if I wanna dance with you
I think you will
It gets cold and lonely on my dark side of the moon
The air thin and cill
Come and show me what the grey looks like when it's blue
I think you can
You've got golden lips and I have got a silver spoon
We

After I kissed you
A sweet darkness came down
Fingers were search lights
Leading the way down

We talk in fingers and thumbs
In an ancient braille of daily vacant overflow
Fingers and thumbs can never lie
We talk in fingers and thumbs
With my hands out stretche

Can I keep my head when all around me are losing theirs
Can I keep my secrets close
Can I hold my course in this tiny vessel steady
Will I reach the farthest coast
It's rolling away from me
As far as the eye can see
But While this journey's long it's joyful
'Ca

Lead me out of the mountains
Across the plain
I can't multiply again
Oh release me

And I will build you two towers
With bricks baked in fire
And the godgrudge they'll inspire
Oh believe me

Tear me to pieces, cut me down
Raze my two towers to the ground

In the sky I see angels
Flying all over town
they've got names in their pockets
Of lovers lost and found
If I send you my angel
Would you send yours to me
If our angels collide in the sky
You'll say it was meant to be

And days blank like they bleached th

It started slowly
First a finger then a thumb
Matilda started disappearing
In front of everyone
No one noticed how translucent she become

As one by one
It started softly
First a fumble then a kiss
In all his dreams he'd never seen
Perfection like this
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Was he with you at the railway
Did he cradle all your pain
Did he show to you the best way
To make it all right again
Now there was reason in your madness
You weighed your loss against my gain
If he was with you at the railway
Would you do it all again

M

One day
I'll take a bottle with a good strong base
And a cork that fits it
No label, no marker's mark
And I'll shout the bile and anger and plain disappointment in until I've almost filled it
And then I'll squeeze the cork down hard

I'll need a boat with a good st

Take me back to the evening that it all began
There was you and me and some drunkards in a black London taxi cab
And we said, driver, over the hill
There's a place where time stands still
I quicken your pace there
Put your foot down, driver, get us over the hill

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Wires fan before you, they draw you
In deep troughs and sharp peaks of green
Each cough rips through you, it wounds you
And flatlines cry wolf on the screen
If I could change the shapes of the waves
They'd all be a perfect 4/4
If I could exchange the sky for this ca

On a river of sighs
A boat came towards me
A flimsy disguise
Covered the devil
Who sang from a songsheet
Of how modern life's a bore

In his choirboys' attire
He sang me the life to which
Good girls aspire
Where men in white coats
Give us pills

I'll carve a song out of notes of stone
My tune-cut will last generations long
And it will be one to remember me by
When I am dead and gone
Empires may fall, and the maps might change
The oceans may boil in a fit of rage
But folks will be whistling a tune of mine

The summer sun plays on the ground
I feel it in my leaves
The sap is rising up my veins
There's pollen on the breeze

I saw it all crystal clear
I know who brought those children here

The badgers tried to keep them warm
The foxes gave them milk
Woodpeckers trie

Tiny heart flutter between my fingers and my thumb
You're very in trouble before you've began
I see your tiny heart worrying, a turning of wheels
Just grab on to something and dig in your heels

This place is made of blood and bones
Expect you've seen better homes
But th

We shouldn't be alone in this place, it's a big mistake
What the hell we doing together
Don't tell me it's a risk we take
My whole body's shaking like a leaf in stormy weather

Look up the clouds are rolling
And waves of soldiers marching to the broken beats of my drum
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