alone

Lyrics

like the contents of your handbag, you don't know why it's there, people ask you where you're heading, you just answer "anywhere", we don't mean to be this vague, it just happens that we are, no-one asked us to elaborate, we just shrug our shoulders and be, and like the stories that just happened, no-one thought of, no-one planned, we could have ruled, we could have conquered, then we could have been a man, we could be ex-husband, we could be ex-wife, but no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life, alone, alone, half an hour is seven hours, one day is several months, alone, alone, a month is a calendar, a year can be a decade spent, alone, he knows "hello" in eighteen languages, "i love you" in only one, by the time he's got his phrase-book, the chance is usually gone, and we feel ourselves quite prepared, but quite prepared for what, we always took the lead, before we actually knew the plot, and you can tell where we've been shopping, by the bags beneath our eyes, make-up shoulders burden, but the smile never lies, we could be ex-husband, we could be ex-wife, but no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life, alone, alone, half an hour is seven hours, one day is several months, alone, alone, a month is a calendar, a year can be a decade spent, alone, so empty at the airport, you don't set off the doors, we used to feel like chorus girls, and now we feel like whores, hearts built like reservoirs, words built like dams, thoughts built like juggernauts, our actions built like prams, and when the wind blows into our face, we should be warmer and not colder, well, what price the charges, on this cargo that we shoulder, we could be ex-husband, we could be ex-wife, but no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life, alone, alone, half an hour is seven hours, one day is several months, alone, alone, a month is a calendar, a year can be a decade spent, alone, and we only smoke when bored, so we do two packs a day, and we've lost the difference, between bored and lonely anyway