This morning when I woke up I cut notches in my fingernails
This morning when I woke up I cut notches in my fingernails
This morning when I woke up I cut notches in my fingernails
One for each time we touched
I don't have long fingernails anymore
You may have noticed
A reminder of what we did
And didn't
How cold of you
To say
What did I want you to say?
What did I want you to say?
What did I want you to say?

Perhaps you're the one who'll get me out
I was drinking your tea when you called, after all
But then I'd flatten the world for you to walk on
So who knows
Perhaps you're always right
But it hurts me to admit it
I'd swim across that muddy river to prove myself
Throw me a rope
Lift up your hands
Educate the lovely deluded children
Lift up your soft hands
Show us how you are underneath
You'd be the most popular girl in the hospital
But I've already given you all that I had
I'd take you to Jupiter, bring you back home again
Doesn't that sound fun?
It's just at the back of my head
That you won't give me an answer
When I ring the bell
And call your name

It's like this every time, of course
Looking in the book I can see myself
Though I wish I didn't recognise that man
"She says it'll be good for me"
But you'd do anything she says regardless, wouldn't you?
Do you want to listen, or just hear it again and again?
"Got some new friends, haven't seen the old ones much"
You're going to say it every year
How long
It takes
To change
And find you haven't
How ambitious you were
To look at the world, say it all could be mine
A field of English roses
But underneath there's a ring of mould
"There's not many people like that around nowadays"
Well if you wanted to live in the past you could have died young
But nothing's really changed
Only the names are different
It takes
So long
To change
And find yourself back where you started
"Got some old friends, haven't seen the new ones much"
I wonder how old Bernard is today
I only saw him this evening
It seems like a lifetime ago
"I got all melancholy there"
Well hold the door boy
It'll come flooding through in a moment
A rising tide of sentimental gibberish
"Yesterday I had some interesting thoughts in the shower"
A birthday party for a waxwork academic
And a blonde girl with waxy eyes
Have you always been so stra-nge?
"Nobody else is awake yet, only me"
Perhaps they were awake all along, and you're the one dreaming?
"I've never been so close to getting my name on the list"
Tell yourself what you need to hear, I suppose
"Oh, how I wish the Earth was flat"
It's a painful stereotype, but then you nail every line on the head
"We only have to be as close as you're comfortable with"
Preferably about six inches and fourpence change
A short breathless distance
That still takes years to cross
"Had some friends, haven't seen them today"

Now please go down
Send a private sector of your skin
Go downtown now
Where the jet hits you square in the-
But we don't do that anymore
He'll be right behind you
All the way home
Though you may not realise
He won't catch you if you fall
But we don't do that anymore
I've seen you on the sofa
And if now's a good time
Let's talk like we used to
But we don't do that anymore
So I hear an event is being planned tonight
Obviously I'm the entertainment
Well I don't accept your invitation
Perhaps we can entertain each other (we don't do that anymore)
You bought in plenty of stock, I hope
There's a lot to get through in not much time
Even without fixing anything of me
I wonder what would happen if we finished the bottle (we don't do that anymore)
It's easier to speak
When we don't use words
A flick of my hair
A touch of our fingertips
But we don't do that anymore
We don't do that anymore
(This morning when I woke up I cut notches in my fingernails)
We don't do that anymore
We don't do that anymore
We don't do that anymore
(So tomorrow if I wake up I'll cut notches in my fingernails)
We don't do that anymore
We don't do that anymore
We don't do that anymore
(This morning when I woke up I cut notches in my fingernails)
We don't do that anymore