I left my friends
For the strangers of the town
Between doves and elephants
There can be no common ground
Time obscures their dreary tongues
Makes a ghost of everyone
Call them what they are - a million shadows!
I didn't send for you when I was meant to.
Lost a friend in you but then I meant to.
And only my skirts only my skirts miss you now.
You told me that no matter where I went would be a prison
That the world is harsh I know it is but,
It only hurts it only hurts if you say, 'Ow!'
The things that you don't think about don't exist.
The day I left, there was a lightning strike,
Left a border of flame,
I tasted carbon on the knife,
Felt the shape of your name.
Everybody knew, the secret circus,
Was a fairy tale, but I
Thought I saw a big top in the darkness,
Should've heard the helicopter screaming
Everybody thought that they were dreaming
Everything was hot, the ground was steaming
Voices calling out across the water
Firemen and tv news reporters
Stepping on their video recorders
Oh but cameras are liars I saw bears and there were tigers
Then I heard brass in the hiss of the propeller sound
And there were shuffles in the desert as the players gather round
And there were faces in the vapours, there were acrobats and clowns
You always told me that I tend to overdramatise
But I have seen these things with my very own eyes
And then they faded into ether
And I don't know why
I guess I didn't hear the call for when the curtain died
Because the things you set on fire don't exist