Bloodsports

And the mysteries of love are not for us It's the little things that are tearing us up As the telephone emits a brittle sigh Only one of us will reach it in time What are you not telling me? What are you not telling me? As I blow away the dandelion c

Like a cause without a martyr, Like an effigy of balsa, Like a hairline crack in a radiator, Leaking life I shout out but it just spins faster, I crawl up but my knees are water, I cling on by my nails to the sweet disaster And then I fall to the flo

You touch the place where we meet Where you and I become she and he I'm not as strong as I pretend to be You feel the scratches and scars You feel the parts of me we call ours But drop me once And I will fall to bits Come on and hit me With your maje

All the colours in the rainbow don't compare With one look in your impossible eyes And I walked into the trap with my eyes wide shut But I never knew what it would be like All the plans were made In the wooded glade Where your body was split wide ope

The air is still we are struck like matches Too beautiful to really care what's right The rumours burn like roman candles In the broken lights This love is lifting The blood is lifting you Over snowblind barriers This love is lifting who This blood i

Got a lover Then she gets another Got a race horse And we go to war Got a tongue I wish I had another one Got a race horse And we go all the bloodsports Got a pair of dice But we only roll for snake eyes Got a race horse And we go to war Got a pull s

She knows that there are places I won't go, But if I did, I'd make her follow A trail of seeds that leads across the road, And colours like a raven's shadow Alone in the climate of her greed, Her heels on the wheels of nothing, Her love is sabotage,

With the sunrise burning into your green eyes, Adam and Eve on faultlines greet the golden dawn. Is it birdsong or is it just the car alarms Making us feel so young, naked as the faun? Celebrate the pale dawn, celebrate the birdsong, Celebrate, this