marbles Lyrics

Her haircut, she looked what she'd made her

In that dress growing ever tighter 
It was saddening the lengths she had gone to 
To appear more attractive 
In the process losing something 
We never knew but still missed 

You knew you were lost as soon as you saw her 
You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps 
Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally 
Together you squirmed and wriggled 
And I could only jerk along behind 

Chorus: 

They're going to hurt you 

They always will 

She is now with me, inside of you 
And I could only stare wide-eyed 
As everything closed in around the three of us 
Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue 

That were rushing through our body

And it's good 

Chorus 

She opened the door his face bruised and swollen 
Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs 
Our message lost and our plans forgotten 
Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes 
Moving in, kicking, stamping 
Bland expressionless faces 
A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin 
Memories, memories (??)

Chorus

In a northern town there were amazing rows of standing stones arranged on the southern slope  
They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness 
Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who make the desert island  
I saw you in a tin bath in red water 
Were the ones who went to Washington to do their laundry 
They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane  
I never believed in New York, or where you intended to stand 
But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked  
I just had to go 
They came