Basically I don't remember
staring at the switchboard in the house
trying to change the temperature.
And since I only have a cold
I should call my dad and go to bed.
While dialling in, the numbers start to sway:
Don't you die before you're dead.
I'd know by now
If I leave this house, I'd leave my car
Trailing both my hands
Cos I'm gaunt and cast
With my jawline melting
I'm a new Pierrot
Swaying on my ladder
And it's lucid these stories
They're stories - no endings.
All at once I am suspending
Belly-lift my standing hands and cool
The fiery eyes that line a cirque
The sultan sings in pink to tame the busters
The ballerina clips below
Naked in a haze of stamping dust
Glory be the whole damn thing.
I'd know by now
If I leave this house, I'd leave my car
Trailing both my hands
Cos I'm gaunt and cast
With my jawline melting
I'm a new Pierrot
Saying I'm not gonna
And it's lucid these stories
They're stories - no endings.
Sally come home and remember
They just say
Sally warm up it's much better
And say
Sally come home to redeem us -
Ballet dancers don't live in trailers
And say..
Sally come home to remember
They just say
Sally come home it's much better
And say