'Carry me back to Now'

I love Lucy, but she's gone

You can set your watch by me, I'm a regular guy
I get up and then I walk away
But in the pulse of my heart
I'm coming for you

Your parachute has never billowed open
You were stuffed in a pillow, and you're hoping against hope, my boy
But in the pulse of your heart
I'm coming for you

Her wings are folded
In her chrysalis
But you can wake her
With an all-night kiss
But in the pulse of her heart, she's coming to you
In the pulse of her heart, she's coming for you

Alright!

You can set the clock back, so can I
I can tell the future, from the sky
You can tell what time it is
By looking yourself in the eye
But in the pulse of my heart, here's looking at you;
You're the pulse of my heart, and you know that it's you

Alright!

Coming into Harrisburg
Never seen a body look so tense
Tell me Mr Kennedy,
Have you ever seen the clouds so dense?

Coming into Cleveland
Riding in the van with Sebadoh
Tell me Mr Kennedy
Have you ever seen the clouds so low?

Maybe it'll rain, maybe it'll rain tonight
Maybe it'll rain, maybe it'll rain tonight

Coming into Paradise
Thinking that I must have been here once;
Me and Mr Kennedy
Haven't seen a blade of grass in months

Maybe it'll rain, maybe it'll rain tonight
Maybe it'll rain, maybe it'll rain tonight

Here it comes, here it comes again
Here she comes as she comes as she comes

Coming into Pittsburgh
Dreaming of a thousand open shops
Me and Mr Kennedy, stretching out to catch the first few drops:
Tell me, Mr Kennedy -

Can you make it rain?
Can you make it rain tonight?

You are as hard as a diamond
You could be used as a cutting tool
Right in the forefront of industry

You are so hard

Nobody wants to be vulnerable
Everyone wants to be horrible
Just like that pig in the underpass
Sharing a trough with the Anti-Christ

You are so hard
You are SO hard

Give me unprotected love
Like a baby in a football
Like a fish inside a glove
Give me unprotected love

Give me unprotected love
Like the summer in the autumn
Like the salmon high above
Give me unprotected love

Humma mumma mumma mumma mumma mumma mummma mummma ma ma ma, ma ma ma ma

You are as hard as a diamond

My mind is connected to your dreams
Bzzup uhzzup uzzup uzzuh bzzup uh-huh
Your dreams are connected to the underside
Where the skull of Africa
Meets the horn of Florida
And petals ring in orbit, merry day
- give me a pod of rock'n'roll

The butler emerges from the hole,
Bzzup uhzzup uzzup uzzup bzzup uh-huh
With a tray of diamonds
From the horn of Florida
And I loved your tennis court
And the hair that fell on it
Was yours
- give me a pod of rock'n'roll

And I want you to remember
Everything
Everything
Everything

My mind is connected to your dreams
Bzzup uhzzup uhzzup uzzup bzzup uh-huh
Your dreams are connected to the underside
In your skull is memory
It's eleven carriages
And your skin was beautiful
And the face that formed on it
Was yours
- give me a pod of rock'n'roll

And it's only a poisonous plant and it's calling your name

Yeah! It's just a sudden town
Yeah, it's just a sudden town right now:

The arches that stretch from the railway station
Lead to the terminus
Yeah, it's just a sudden town

Rails shine back from perspective distance,
ooh la la la la la la

Poles that could only be used for overhead wiring
Stand with their wires all gone...

Moonlight she crackles on looming orbs
All peppered with rusty rivets
Yeah, it's just a sudden town

Chimneys are lit by a fading sun
That tapers away to a cold horizon
Yeah, it's just a sudden town

Heaven will pelt you with energy
While you cripple yourself with a moment's heartbreak
Yeah, it's just a sudden town

Stand in a shop on the Archway Road
And someone will kiss you as you stand guard
Yeah, it's just a sudden town

Cottages full of eternal men
All seeking a dream in the old direction
Yeah, it's just a sudden town

Pick up your bags from the restaurant
And shuffle away to a lonely keyhole
Yeah, it's just a sudden town

Heaving
Up and down your light beside you
Nobody talks to you anyway
Nobody knows how you you even got here;
And the ghouls will come
Oh yes the ghouls will come
Singing sha-la-la-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Yeah, it's just a sudden town

I've got my mojo and I am a piece of the action Oh strings
Strings
Got every black dog that crawls through your undergrowth
Strings
Strings
Each time I see you I peel off another excuse
Strings
Father in heaven or father in purgatory, see what you see from the hill of the dead,
See into all of this little glass family, Strings
Oh Strings
Harmony ruins a bloody good racket, and this little egg was distorted by mother, Oh Strings
Strings
I know I'm right but I just cannot argue,
Arguments make me blow up like a victim Oh Strings
Strings

Evil is the new enemy, evil is the new bad
Evil is the new enemy, evil is the new bad

Swing your partners round and round
Hanging just above the ground
Kiss me quickly wish me luck
Detonating in a ten ton truck
Love me tender on the roof
Afterwards there'll be no proof
Take your partner by the middle
Like a burger on a griddle
If you would retaliate
Just remember love is hate

Cut, cut

Mother is coming, she wants to be friends so the poison can get in you
She's got a map of you, she knows the pressure points -

I wish that I was just paranoid

We all know
What it is to be afraid in life
What it is to be alive
What it is to be afraid in life
What it is to be alive

I keep on working
Like a Japanese captain

Touch me baby
Rinse me please
Fuck me darling
- Under the table is good, but under your fingers is better
You know I'm in love
Like a Japanese captain

Touch me baby
Ring me please
Reach me darling
- under the radar is good, but under your fingers is better
You know I'm in love
Like a Japanese Captain

Today is the same as tomorrow
But this time it's happened before
Today
I will kiss you somewhere that it's dark

I adore you
I adore you
I adore you

Like a Japanese captain

As I sit here softly strumming
Underneath a lemon moon
In my heart I feel you coming
It's you my girl

Looking for the holy grail
Underneath the winter's skin
I'm a tuber soft and pale
To my girl

Looking for LaCherité
LaShea wont do, only LaCherité
Looking for LaCherité
LaShea won't do, must have LaCherité

I enjoyed you,but I couldn't see
That you were a person, a person like me
And I just can't cry
So I fall like rain
Inside

Standing naked by the portal
With the orange moon ahead
Moon's forever, we are mortal
I wish I could be
Twenty-three
I could waste time
I could waste time

Looking for LaCherité
LaShea wont do, only LaCherité
Looking for LaCherité
LaShea won't do, must have LaCherité

In my end is my beginning
Only if your aim is true
From your grave your skull is grinning
Back at you

As I sit here softly strumming
Underneath a lemon moon
In my heart I feel you coming
It's you my girl

Looking for LaCherité
LaShea won't do, must have LaCherité
Looking for LaCherité
LaShea won't do
Only a dream can love you this way
Only a dream can love you this way

And I just can't cry, so I fall like rain
Inside

We need a song
It's in G sharp
About the world
Is run by keepers
With keeper beaks
And keeper eyes
Too close together
You could do it better with a
Blunt pencil and a
Payphone

Lions and tigers eat the same bits as each other
Lions and tigers eat the same bits as each other

In the bathroom, in the mirror
In the mirror, in the skin

I know your life gets painful sometimes
I know your life gets painful sometimes

I screwed up when I was young, but must I keep on paying for it?
Yes you must
Yes you must
Until you let yourself go

Lions and Tigers meet the same fate as each other
As each other