ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk newspaper word cut-outs
speak no feelings no, i don’t believe you
you don’t care a bit
you don’t care a bit
i want you to wander silent past my outstretched arms,
i want you to hide yourself from all I see,
and though my heart will fight until its dying breath, you’re not for me
what do you know? this house is falling apart
what can I say? this house is falling apart
we got no money, but we got heart
drive my car into the ocean
you’ll think i’m dead but i sail away
on a wave of mutilation
take my badge but my heart remains
lovin’ you, baby child
tighten up on your reins
you’re runnin’ wild, runnin’ wild
it’s true
she says “if i leave before you darlilng,
“don’t you waste me in the ground”
i lay smiling like our sleeping children
one of us will die inside these arms
eyes wide open, naked as we came
one will spread our ashes round the yard
for you i’d wait
till kingdom come
until my day, my day is done
and say you’ll come and set me free
just say you’ll wait, you’ll wait for me
some they crawled their way into your heart
to rend your ventricles apart
this is the story of the boys who loved you
this is the story of your red right ankle
eyeless in the morning sun you were
pale and mild, a modern girl
taken with thought, still prone to care
makin tea in your underwear
you went out in the yard to find
