lyrics of the week december 15 - december 21
I was choking on a cornflake
You said “Have some toast
instead”
I was sleeping maybe three hours
You said
“You should get to bed”
I was waiting at the church door
For the minister to show
I was looking at the new year
You said “Walk before you crawl”

I was feeling like
a loser
You said “Hey, you’ve still got me”
I was
feeling pretty lonely
You said “You wanted to be free”
I was looking for a good time
You said “Let the good
times start”
With a quiver of your eyelid
You took on
someone else’s part

Maybe I’m a little greedy
You said “Think before you speak”
Sometimes I’m a little
seedy
You said “Everyone is weak”
Now I feel a little
better
Is there something I can do?
But I never heard
the answer
I never had a clue

But what about
me
I don’t really see
How things will improve
If
all you want is to stay loose

There’s a little echo
calling
Like a miner trapped inside
If I tell her of
this moment
She will in me doubts confide
And she’s on
me like a blanket
Like a stalk of wilting grass
I’m
not sure about her motives
I’m not sure about her past

But my faith is like a bullet
My belief is like a
bolt
The only thing that lets me sleep at night
A
little carriage of the soul
If it starts a little
bleaker
Then the year may yet be gold
Happiness is not
for keeping
Happiness is not my goal

But what
about me
I don’t really see
How things will improve
If all you want is to stay loose
But what about them
You play mother hen
To a gaggle of gangling youth
All you want is to stay loose

I was living through
the seconds
My composure was a mess
I was miles from
tenderness
It was dark outside, the day it was lying in
pieces
Everything is flat and dreary
I couldn’t care
what’s in the news
Television is the blues
Television
is hysterical laughter of people

And I know it could
be me
I’m always asking for more
I keep running round
in circles
I keep looking for a doorway
I’m going to
need two lives
To follow the paths I’ve been taking