Patient Lyrics

On Tuesday she used to do yoga, While I'd sit and watch the box In a vegetable way But always ready to say To myself that I was an artist Implying that she was not. It's funny the ...Read Full Lyrics

The thought crossed my mind - how curious, Why should I want so much shut-eye? Fighting the darkness and furious, Oh, but I once more fall into the song... Just the normal unconsc...Read Full Lyrics

Your father has just left your mother, Gone off to live with his latest lover: She sits there, just staring. So you get back to your own flat Because the atmosphere in there Is so ...Read Full Lyrics

The golden dream, the seat of all decorum, A satellite to match the light of Rome: Its silver children chatter in the Forum, The bath-house, and the brothels, and their homes About...Read Full Lyrics

Won't hear a sound at Porton Down, The clear liquids keep their silence, Buried underground at Porton Down The fast form of the final violence. Quite right to be worried about the ...Read Full Lyrics

You've never shown a trace of human frailty, No-one could ever catch you on the hop: Each post-modern take on the action would find you already, in principle, totally hot, al...Read Full Lyrics

If you catch me running along by the sea, with bare feet in The sand, then you'll know I am dreaming my life out in a way You won't understand. I'm slipping right out of your mind,...Read Full Lyrics

Once, all the stars in the sky were bright, Now they're red and fading And all the colours we wore, the shades that we bore Have moved. And the gold turns to red with no time for c...Read Full Lyrics

I lay down beside you : I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid, And I come in laughing play ---- But, maybe, to be saved. Peer through the backcloth : I am a character in the play,...Read Full Lyrics

I saw your picture in the Evening Standard: You were wearing your battle dress. I really must confess That I she'd a silent smile for you - It had really blown my mind, I wonder, a...Read Full Lyrics