I keep my head uptight
I make my plans at night
And I don’t sleep, I don’t sleep, I don’t sleep ’til it’s light
Something’s flowing, someone buried alive

There is an awful sound
This haunted town
And it will not, it will not, it will not just be quiet
Some ghosts sing, some get called to the life

Spend boring hours in the office tower
In a bus, on a bus back home to you and
That’s fine I’m barely alive

It’s just a matter of time
No one gets out alive
And I’m content, I’m content, I’m content to be quiet
It’s only six, someone get called to the life

You know our hearts beat time out very slowly
You know our hearts beat time
They’re waiting for something that’ll never arrive

I keep my head on tight
I make my plans at night
And I don’t sleep, I don’t sleep, I don’t sleep ’til it’s light
Pulse flowing, someone buried alive
And if that head opens we built a life of work
Where we’re chain chain chain chain, chained to the life
But that’s fine, our blood is alive

You know our hearts beat time out very slowly
You know our hearts beat time
They’re waiting for something that’ll never arrive

Some roads are only seen at night
Ghost roads — nothing but neon signs.
But some nights the neon gas gets free
and turns into walking dead like me

And I’ve been making promises I know I’ll never keep
One of these days I’m gonna leave you in your sleep
I’ll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name
Baby, I was born on a train.

Well I know that you were never young
And I know you probably won’t get old
But honey nobody’s gonna hurt you anymore
And nobody’s going to make you want to die

I’ll go some cold and grey morning,
and you won’t remember anything
Some people don’t believe in dying,
but some of us don’t believe in life

Svetlana sucks lemons across from me,
and I am progressing abominably.
And I do not know my own way to the sea
but the saltiest sea knows its own way to me.

The city that turns, turns protracted and slow
and I find myself toeing th’embarcadero
and I find myself knowing the things that I knew
which is all that you can know on this side of the blue

And Jaime has eyes black and shiny as boots
and they march at you, two-by-two (rey - loo - rey - loo);
when she looks at you, you know she’s nowhere near through:
it’s the kindest heart beating this side of the blue.

And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers,
and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words!
While across the sky sheet the impossible birds,
in a steady, illiterate movement homewards.

And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon.
See them rattle & boo, see them shake, see them loom.
See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus;
see him navigate deftly this side of the blue.

And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue
when the shape of their goneness will flare up anew.
Then we do what we have to do (rey - loo - rey -loo),
which is all you can do on this side of the blue.

Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Your blood
Your bones
Your voice
and your ghost

We’ve both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Fight the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves

but I’ll believe in anything
and you’ll believe in anything
said I’ll believe in anything
and you’ll believe in anything

If I could take the fire out from the water
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the water
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the water
I’d take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
said nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn

and I could take another hit for you
and I could take away your trips from you
and I could take away the salt from your eyes
and take away the spitting salt in you
and I could give you my apologies
by handing over ideologies
and I could take away the shaking knees
and I could give you all the olive trees
oh look at the trees and look at my face and look at a place far
away from here

Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Your blood
Your bones
Your voice
and your ghost

We’ve both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Fight the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves

but I’ll believe in anything
and you’ll believe in anything

If I could take the fire out from the water
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the water
I’d share a life and you’d share a life
If I could take the fire out from the water
I’d take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn either way
About your blood
your bones
your voice
and your ghost
because nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn either way

and now I’ll believe in anything
and you’ll believe in anything
because nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn anyway