I said it with laughter, then I said it with spite,
‘Who’s looking over your shoulder tonight?’
You said without warning or knowing the time,
‘We’ll get what we’re after when we get in the line’.
But the road is down, yes the road is down
I live in haste like Axel Heyst
You live like a garden alone in space
Between us both a sense of the past
Alone and at most the loaded hand
But the boat is out, yes the boat is out.
You wait for him as if you’re the Seraphim
No weight is all will save us now
Go back again and re-think this island
I never wanted to hold anyone
But you showed me how, yes you showed me how.
All day it’s been as if the sky fell in
O no! you cry is this where it ends?
He comes to you and you shoot him two by two
Such urgency will hold off the last
Kick out the lights and go to bed
Your sleep will carry me home
And wait until I get back
To tell me I was wrong
I was late
And you never lied
You didn’t let him
Because you’re mine