Track 4 from _Misplaced Childhood_
I) Brief Encounter
A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow,
Not the regal creature of border caves,
But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar
of some obscure Scottish poet
The mist crawls from the canal
Like some primordial phantom of romance
To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
Your carnation will rot ina vase
II) Lost Weekend
A train sleeps in a siding,
The driver guzzles another can of lager, lager
To wash away the memories of a Friday night down at the clu
She was a wallflower at sixteen,
she'll be a wallflower at thirty four
Her mother called her beautiful
Her daddy said, (a whore)
III) Blue Angel
The sky was Bible black in Lyon,
when I met the Magdalene
She was paralyzed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises,
They were pinned upon her arm
Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand,
to a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears
And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear
'J'entend ton coeur',
'J'entend ton coeur',
I can hear your heart, I can hear your heart, I can hear your heart
Hear your heart
I can hear your heart
IV) Misplaced Rendezvous
It's getting late, for scribbling and scratching on the paper
Something's gonna give under this pressure,
and the cracks are already beginning to show,
It's too late
The weekend career girl never boarded the plane
They said this could never happen again
Oh, so wrong, so wrong
This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous
This time, it's looking like another misplaced rendezvous,
With you,
The parallel of you, you
V) Windswept Thum
On the outskirts of nowhere,
On the ringroad to somewhere,
On the verge of indecision,
I'll always take the roundabout way,
Waiting on the rain
For I was born with a habit, from a sign
The habit of a windswept thum
And the sign of the rain,
(rain on me, rain)
It's started raining
It's started raining
It's started raining
It's started raining
It's started raining
It's started raining
It's started raining