28 days of rain Flashfloods in Feburary Back in our boats again Bathwater and the baby What am I gonna do? There's been a lot of drinking Looking at ghosts of you While all the world is sinking Ten thousand miles into the atmosphere My body shakes, is there a welcome here?
Closest thing to heaven How do you do it? Closest thing to heaven, to heaven
Throw your arms 'round the world Make love your destination Here we go, boys and girls Act like a generation Give me that ball and chain By now it must be hurting Dragging your feet again Just like a beast of burden When one and one and one make two I know I'm high because I've captured you Yeah
Closest thing to heaven Yes, you Closest thing to heaven, to heaven
Look the world right in the eye Eat the countries that are making millions Sweet as homemade apple pie Save the crumbs for all the starving millions
Closest thing to heaven Closest thing to heaven How do you do it? Closest thing to heaven Hey Closest thing to heaven
I wouldn't mind but she just turned up on the doorstep Wistfull and ashen, slightly bedraggled Last time I saw her she was howling at the moon Roaming the forest, lupine and rabid
Woah, is she wild? Does she see my inner child?
But then she knows it's like a curse To find our chosen roles reversed To unify my universe To call me mellow
If I was only half my age and she was older We'd live on ice cream on Coney Island And though it's gravity that drags down my balloon She stays in orbit way after midnight
Woah, slip and slide - does she go all dewey-eyed?
But then she knows it's like a curse To find our chosen roles reversed To unify my universe To call me mellow
She'll dress down for us She'll break new ground for us Watching me cracking up She'll hang round fellahs With all the ground swellers Driving me like a truck
But then she knows it's like a curse To find our chosen roles reversed To unify my universe To call me mellow
What you gonna choose the poison or the knife? Lived with crazy paving all your life Something in her eyes just tells you no Hoping conversation starts to flow
Stuck inside a wheel inside a wheel Wondering everyday is it all for real? Aching every time a cold wind blows My love don't fear the mighty rose
Tangerine, Tangerine
What you gonna do when the old man bleeds you dry Step down from the plane and pluck the eye Slide in deeper closer to the bone Don't you just wish your heart was made of stone
Waxing like an old cracked forty-five Counting out the ways you can stay alive Placed in body bags and filled with stones My love won't bleed her waves are foam
And when you think it's all over It's not over, it's not over
Who killed Tangerine? Prettiest girl I've ever seen
And when you think it's all over It's not over, it's not over
Tell me a story of mind over matter The hope and glory of life ever after The sound and the fury the cloak and the dagger Days when we sink like a stone
Porcelain portraits and silver medallions Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions Angels of mercy and lifelong companions Days when we sink like a stone
There a room somewhere with a different look Where your secret life is an open book Where the love we made was a chance we took Days when we sink like a stone
Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire
Let us be lovers we'll melt after midnight Hoist up the mainsail we'll coast through the daylight Twisted like candles that fade in the half-light Days when we sink like a stone
Well we die sometimes to begin again When the same old dreams have the same old end When we lose our mind or we lose our friends Days when we sink like a stone
Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire
Your friends have gone Porcelain portraits and silver medallions Your friends have gone Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions Your friends have gone Angels of mercy and lifelong companions
Tell me a story of mind over matter The hope and glory of life ever after The sound and the fury the cloak and the dagger
Ladybird fly away our friends are gone Ladybird fly away our house is on fire
Tired of this elegant life With the best will in the world It's a thorn in your side
Dazed, not a little confused Let the patient do the work They got nothing to lose
I told you I'd hold you 'til the last days on earth
Ties that are tested and tried Like the crushing of the waves We'll be lost in the tide
Talk away the pain for the very last time Like an echo in a cave Let it die in your mind
I told you I'd hold you 'Til the last days on earth
If you should fall into these opened arms You would be blessed not just bemused Wake up their mind love is alonely world Where nothing on earth lies like a truth
Ties that are tested and tried Like the crushing of the waves We'll be lost in the tide
Talk away the pain for the very last time Like an echo in a cave Let it die in our mind
I told you I'd hold you 'Til the last days on earth
