I'm sittin' at a coffee table,
unable to see straight
Watchin' parallel lines
unwind and undulate
Behind the rain-streaked windowpane,
windowpane, the scene's bleak
Another train leavin' home
Conceding defeat with
a low moan
Hangin' in A sky, made of stone
Everybody's leavin' home, I
called my man Jerome
To come meet me in the
twilight zone
Leave your mobile phone at
home and come alone
I bought him
coffee and a snack
Settled back, started speakin'
He was tweakin' with
the peak of his cap
While I'm seekin' to discover
what it takes to stay sober
Not cover my mistakes
Try to maybe make sense of the evidence
It's over, she's gone for good
Why should I lie, singin'
a killer's lullaby
Identified by the dying
ring of her goodbye
The last thing you hear before
your life disappear
Now
it just gets worse,
like my stomach 'll burst
Feel like I've been cursed
With seven centuries of bitter
memories
And inadequacies,
previous he's and she's
I'm mov in' round this old house
for the last time
Scene of my past crimes,
been here for lifetimes
Hearin' the chimes of the old
clock that used to mock
You got eternity for takin' stock
This place is like a padlock
You look shocked
Trust me, nothing ever moves
but the dust
There's just us and I'm here to
torment and tease
And that's how it was for centuries
Me and my memories,
till you brought the keys
Took the couple of Saturdays
I moved in runnin' from
tragedies and boozing
Seven hundred years since I
came here
You appear, same hair,
same quizzical stare
I couldn't get near
And the sheer frustration
was more than I could bear
I was really cursed,
thought I'd been through the worst part
That was just the first part, just the start
Every night I'd be sitting with dread,
breaking my heart
In case the man she'd
been chasin' gets to first base
And I just can't escape,
I'm in bad shape
You making love to someone else
is more than I can take
And so I make all the movement
I can to no avail
Scream and yell,
sinkin' deep er in to my per sonal hell
I'm getting heated, I'm
sorry,
have another coffee
I needed to release my sparrow chest
from just a piece of this pressure
Unless an escape route is found
I'm going down underground
In to lifetimes of pain, it's absurd
The heaviest chain is
contained is the sound of one word
So I'm referred back to hell, huh
Just as well, I hate needles an' get
twinges at the thought
Of syringes
J (as in Jerome), I'm
going insane with shame
I dream and watch her makin'
love over and over again
With what I call a farm
er's swain
Unintelligent, pea-brained retard re
tard who's dick is always hard
Oh God, of course I'm jealous, fellows
Oversexed flexing his pec's
Jesus, what's he going
make her do next?
I'm mad vex, the way she
gently scratches his chest
You used to do that to me back in 1253
Pity me, while you lie with your lover
I stare and suffer in despair
while you ruffle his hair
Unaware of who else is there
I move quick, I want to try
my trick one last time
You know it's possible
to vaguely define my outline
When dust move in the sunshine
So I'm tryin' to change,
vibrate myself to near-human pitch
pitch
Which reminds me how I used
to come unstitched
And switch 'round the house
in a blind rage
It took years and an ocean of tears
to find the key to this
Cage
And write another stage into a new age
It's difficult to gauge
But I know that I'll see you again, on
that you may depend
I just don't know how or when
Sleep on, my lost love on gone
Jerome took me home
under steel skies
Knowing I'm prone to dramatize
but unknown for telling lies
And what I verbalize he
can see behind my eyes
The why oh why's that
identify killer lullabies
And he surmised
No surprise couldn't hear
that
Closed my eyes as he steered that old
black BM home again
Not knowing how and not knowing when
