Humbug

I thought a saw you in the Battle Ship but it was only a look alike She was nothing but a vision trick Under the warning light She was close Close enough to be your ghost But my chances turned to toast When I asked her if I could call her your name I

Fiendish wonder in the carnival's wake Though it caresses once again irritate Tread softly stranger Move over toward the danger THAT you seek You think excitement has receded And the mirror distracts The logic of the trance Quickly reaches and grasps

Fools On Parade Cavort and carry on The wait in lines That you would rather be beside than in front of But she's never been the kind to be hollowed by the stares She swam out of tonight's fantasm Grabbed my hand and made it very clear There's absolut

When I got back from fixing my hair, you were directing traffic. Letting your story slip on the snow as if the transmission was automatic. It's arguable that I shouldn't have been there. It was fortunate timing. I had a hole in the pocket of my favou

I heard the truth was built to bend A mechanism to suspend the guilt Is what you are requiring still You've got to dance little liar Just like those fibbs to pop and fizz And you'll be forced to take that awful quiz And you're bound to trip And she'l

If you can summon the strength, tow me I can't hold down the urgency You've got to make your decent slowly And oil up those sticky keys Coax me out, my love And have a spin of my propeller It's a necessary evil No cause for emergency Borrow the beak

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning victor_the_red I sat in the cafe by the cracker factory You were practicing a magic trick And my thoughts got rude, As you talked and chewed On the last of your pick and mix Said your mistaken if your thinking that I

Take a little walk to the edge of town and go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom As it shifts and cracks Where secrets lie in the humming wires and the border fires well you know you're never comin back Past the square, pa