Eugene McGuinness

I climbed up the dizzy heights
Just me, and the moon in an empty sky
The tiny cars, and trucks, and fairy lights
As if the stars never learned how to fly

And like a child lost in Tesco
I'm walking down the middle of every aisle
What I'm looking for, I don't know
Just want my name to be passed around for a while

I'm staring at a lady's face
So young, but weathered, dead with fake tan
Heavy earrings dangle, oh with no grace
And she's pushing an empty pram

Just like a child lost in Tesco
But she's climbing up the dizzy heights
Of the sweetness of going solo
But oh, the bitterness of lonely nights, the bitterness of lonely nights

The bitterness of lonely nights

I'm gonna play my card
I'm gonna walk the nine yards
I'm gonna scribble in the dates in my diary

I got a body in the trunk
I gotta never ever get this drunk again
All the whores of Babylon are gonna come and clip me in my sleep

I gotta find a girl whom my eyes shine for
But my shoes run from
Get get away, get get get away from me
I gotta find a girl whom my eyes shine for

I gotta keep up with the scene
I gotta never ever get too green
The Queen's artillery men are keen to get busy

As the world crumbles and falls
William was right about the palace walls
But it's the White House now that also seems ( .... )

Gotta quickly find a girl whom my eyes shine for
But my shoes run from
Get get away, get get get away from me
I gotta find a girl whom my eyes shine for

Black cap, snapping at the heels of the ladies
Rushing, windswept hair and scarves waving
Big Issue man threw a salvation by a penny
Please give what you can
A penny if you have any

Coffee aromas, swimming past the fruit stand
Trag(?) at the corner in a pink polka-dot headband
Schoolboys are mean, but who knows what they're hiding
Time washes clean the masks in which we cry in

Oh, will I be lost in twilight near Bold
Oh, me oh my
I always find myself on this road

A fake American diner plays me Mr. Mustard
But Orpheus is really an old accordion busker
The Mayor recites a Shakespearean sonnet
Saturday night, both feet caked in its own vomit

Burberry check, curbside sex and police cars
She cuts through the chaos, through the canvas like a shooting star
All slow motion now, can't quite believe my black eye
This dark angel landed and obviously missed a war cry

Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Like a diamond in the sky
Will I work it out alive

Oh, will I be lost in twilight near Bold
Oh, me oh my
I always find myself on this road

Oh, will I be lost in twilight near Bold
Oh, me oh my
I always find myself on this road

Bravo, Encore
all the ravers are still raving
Game over, High scare
so type your name in
A perfume scented centipede
We walk the same streets at the same speed.

Dead as a doornail emmersed in flame.
I was in no state to call
and it burns a hole in my heart
in my heart

A ladder falls
Just as i walk under
A black cat dies
are these drivers getting younger,
like a sequal to another teen horror movie,
but no blood is shed during the killers soliloquy.

Dead as a doornail and dirt of a grave,
I wasn't fit to call
and the worms ate a hole in my heart
in my heart

I've been high as a kite
but never the floor
and the pupperteer holds on tight everytime the wind blows me,
and i wouldn't come to close you might catch a cold,
and the one remaining skill as the blowing ball rolls
as the bowling ball rolls

(ahhh)

Dead asa doornail emmersed in flame,
i was in no state to call.

(cheering)

Bravo, Encore
all the ravers are still raving
Game over, High score
so type your name in
A perfume scented centipede
we walk the same streets at the same speed.

you were dancing like a dying matador
amongst an armada of four by fours
we were running in the morning
from the land of lego
fugitives of rainbow road
where all the golden pavestones littered rainbow glow
but if it's every-fucking-where you go
then surely it's no rainbow

no 'hi there's or 'how do you do?'s
just a blur when i was introduced to you
no chats of weather or dissertation deadlines
i knew we were leaving
yeah, we were leaving
me and madeleine

and now i'm scribbling chick-lit-tle hearts
i tell my friends and they all rip me apart
paper aeroplanes launched across the bar
with piss-take love notes
embarrassing to say the least
peeling the label of your orange reef
we made a swift exit at double speed
discussing rainbows

no 'hi there's or 'how do you do?'s
just a blur where i was introduced to you
no chats of weather or dissertation deadlines
i knew we were leaving
yeah, we were leaving
me and madeleine
i knew we were leaving
yeah, we were leaving
me and madeleine
i knew we were leaving
yeah, we were leaving
me and madeleine

There are so many hours in the day
I know I've got work to do but hey
My will to move, or even use my brain
Is weathered by the eternal English rain
And when the talk show ends, I scream
Right at the screen for more pregnant teens
I can't fall asleep it's almost 3 so I water the flowers out on the street

I spent 5 hours on the net last night
Avoiding the monsters under my bed with square eyes

How fan-fucking-tabulous it is to be so scared of the dark like this
I know I've got work to do, it's a bitch
I'm staggering round, I can't find the switch
And I spent 5 hours on the net last night
Avoiding the monsters under the bed with square eyes
Now I dare not stick my feet out the end, in case they bite and sing a monster song

La-da-dup-ba-da-bow-ah

There are so many hours in the day to address this problem in some way
Some barbie doll talks of carb intake
I turn it off, and for now, I'm ok

Did your lucky numbers arrive
In the roll of the dice
In the fire of your eyes where there once was love

I heard they kicked you out to the back road
Of the Vampire Casino
Still clutching thirteen chips and spitting blood

You were climbing up a decent din
A scarlet tear-drunk singing
'One day I will make the women throw'

You were dialling up more endless ghosts of your past
But it's left ringing
'Cos they see your name appear when the screen glows

Did you hear the laughs and the gasps
From a cast in the play
You were a hit
You were off-script and in love

It was just two hours to go
Before the Vampire Casino
Took your hat, sat you down and sucked your blood

Vela, don't blow away
The harbour's out of sight
You're not the farthest point of light
So shine your wondrous cosmic kite

Vela triangulates positions in the night
Before the ocean turns to ice
Before the storm charges the price

Ahhh, ahh, ahh, ahh...
Ahhh, ahh, ahh, ahh...
Ahhh, ahh, ahh, oooh..

Won't you turn on the radio
Won't you turn on the radio

Vela illuminates
Speak me tongues of old
Through a Red Sea Moses strolled
But now the reckless waves control

Vela, the story states you lead us to the shore
And then a funfair shall be born
So Vela, what's the rainpour for?

Ahhh, ahh, ahh, ahh... (What's the rain pour for?)
Ahhh, ahh, ahh, ahh... (What's the rain pour for?)
Ahhh, ahh, ahh, oooh.. (What's the rain pour for?)

Won't you turn on the radio
Won't you turn on the radio
Won't you turn on the radio
Won't you turn on the radio

Vela, don't blow away
Vela, don't blow away