chutes & ladders Lyrics

And there were those films, made in the Seventies where dolls ran through fields, late at night, after men/His shirt is my dressI lost my knees and handsHe drowned my make-up in th...Read Full Lyrics

Cities and factories spread across the borrowed mapBut still I’m lostCities and factories spread across the furrowed landBut still I’m lostAnd the soil is as cold as the moonAn...Read Full Lyrics

There's no heart in the men who run these mountain barsAll love extinguished by location and cold frontsDogs in the parking lot surround the car for scraps of affection, for eyes n...Read Full Lyrics

England's dreaming, Winter absentI take my books back, change my accentFirst in the libraryYou queue up behind me, frost-bitten in French mittensTake care on the cornerSliding on w...Read Full Lyrics

Could it be that you drove me into your fleet of hand-melt candy? Could it be that you sent me falling off the roof backwards, gently? Do not let my words depress you, I'm here to ...Read Full Lyrics

I would say I am sorryIf I thought I’d change your mindBut I know this timeI’ve said too muchBeen too unkindI try to laugh about itCover it all up with liesAnd I try to laugh a...Read Full Lyrics

My youth, I could not drag itI could not bring it with, so I ended up withoutThe house was razed, the spark was dowsedThe looks have gone but I soldier onI’m halfway throughI’m...Read Full Lyrics

I'm in my Halloween boat with a hole in my heart the size of a girlPacific postman, 30 West by 50 East on a black sea that joins up countriesMy life is one second slow ' says here ...Read Full Lyrics

I am the sub-librarian, come in on the council bus - Chalk Farm to Highgate Woods, sportsbag of borrowed booksA steady diet of Brautigan, 'Tapestry' on the walkmanParanormal ill-he...Read Full Lyrics

I came to your party dressed as a shadow and you never knew, you never knewI rolled through the halls like a velvet wave, as quiet as an empty stageI blackened your eyes and stole ...Read Full Lyrics