: I see the rifles coming over the hill And if you shout maybe they stop and won't kill But if you think like me You'll be as dead as he I see the lion
: We sail on the bad tide We sail on the bad sea From your heart to my heart with sails cut from mercy From your heart to my heart From Summer to Spring
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: You and John are birds You and John are ghosts You and John are genies, guarding my coast And in my address book, you're depicted as birds Drawn in
: I have thought about you in your Summer abode In your lunatic smock, in chronicle mode The typewriter smack as you nail in the words and the turntable
: My password is a dead aunt's name A monument, a testament My password is a dead aunt's name A cenotaph, a shallow grave I'm thirty one and fading fast
telegram, i've got your souvenirs 1914 - 1918 i've got your photograph, i've got your poetry Young men, as us - Artists' Rifles Young men, as us - Artists' Rifles
: On the forecourts of French libraries from Reignac to Marseilles the rain rattles small cars, clouds drape over backseats I am a photograph in your
Rifles, Eton Rifles Hello-hurrah It's the price to pay to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles Hello-hurrah I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles Eton Rifles, Eton Rifles
I'm gonna take time Sure feels like I'm falling down again Sure feels like I'm falling down again Sure feels like I'm falling down again I see the rifles
my anxieties Tore out my insides And it took a while to find that I don't really mind Life on the outside So take up your aim and raise your rifles
my anxieties Tore out my insides And it took a while to find That I don't really mind Life on the outside So take up your aim and raise your rifles
I see the rifles coming over the hill And if you shout maybe they stop and won't kill But if you think like me You'll be as dead as he I see the lion
So far away from me to see When no relief is at the door terminally I've no intention to sing a sad song But everything I wanna say never felt so wrong
Today could be the day you might make a change Lock yourself indoors and plan a getaway Take a walk outside in the heavy weather The British Summer time