Original version available on the EP Neither Work Nor Leisure
lyrics
Well it started with a smile and a serotonin itch
The promise of a ride on a Mitzubishi kiss
Imaginary ghosts and a devil to be laid.
Calls, Script and Spotlight.
This is how it starts and who knows where it ends
Any questions from the cohorts might be best kept to yourselves
There’ll be time enough I guess for a civilized debate
Oh - questions and answers, questions and answers...
There is nothing beats this rush,
And nothing comes close enough
Or could hold a candle to this last desperate push home.
Come on shine a light...
In the shadow of the flies there’s an elemental buzz
as we slide the bloody blade in another inch more
Slicing something for the space that we haven’t yet
Flood, deep, hard and brighter
Holding hands amongst the gods where the view is pretty lame the
entre-act bar cognoscenti do not smell of anything
There’s just the tonic on your breath and a prearranged taste
Of what there is to come
No more questions and answers, no more questions and answers
There is nothing beats this rush...
And nothing comes close enough
Or could hold a candle to this last desperate push home
Into pink snow and houses – brickworks and roses
Eleanor Crosses - twelve steps and counting -
stolen projections, that leave me with something,
more than a refrain, and less than a couplet
Well I left a blue plaque - under your window
where they’re waiting for buses – all alone at my station.
God knows this the last ride – laid, hook, line and sinker
When I fall for the third time and my hand slides on over and in
And all I hear is your breathing - all I hear is your breathing
all I hear is your breathing - all I hear is your breathing
Well it started with a smile and a serotonin itch...
Eleanor Crosses – Eleanor Crosses
Chorus b/v
It screams like an angel, it cuts to the core
It burns like a splinter of hate in my soul, breaks the
rings on my fingers, this bell at your throat
Gag-bit white horses that champ in the fog under
cracked dirty actors, their masks all unlaced
their fetches on fire in the first morning rays
It cuts like a razor and bleeds our pulse dry
It boils every heart-beat and stains us with salt
It smashes your heaven and falls to the stream
Flowing into the river to drown in the ocean
Rosemary, Pansies, Fennel, Columbines
Herb of Grace, Daisies, the Violets are long gone now...
Come on shine a light.
Come on share the lie
credits
released May 12, 2014
Music: Mills / Nolan / Quarry
Words: Mills
Drums: Michael Quarry
Guitar: David Nolan
Mandola: Andrew Mills
Vocals: Andrew Mills and Candy Quarry
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