Tear Garden You And Me And Rainbows
You're number eight You're name is Jane With black hair, braids And black lines around your eyes Shades to hide your habit I don't know your age Though you guessed mine My sign, your sign The opening line is always just the same The same intention Destination: You and me and the rainbows Loaded guns attract We know the rules - we don't react We wait in hope - we don't expect Just you and me and the rainbows Down here everything is fine We have a straw, we have a line We have a bag, a rock, a mountain With a string of shepards driving lions Aiming skewers at the sheep Face down, asleep in onion fields The frying fields The worms they peep through holes Which once were eyes They blythe, they bake Although we painted out the sky and the sun There's only thunder And you and me and the rainbows Let's hide out in the lay-by Let the time fly by Tonights disguise - a car crash With our wheels like shattered stars Out dashboard charred A windscreen like a graveyard for the flies We're fast, fast, fast, fast, fast Maggot - hungry flies are circling Mourning as the watchers squat With cameras, cakes and flasks They're spitting, spitting as the blue lights flash Axes, axes, axes swing Broken wings. Broken wings. But we'll still fly and we'll reach our destination You and me and the rainbows If we turn the lights down low And watch the sky climb through the window Will I watch your fingers grow And stretch like butterflies in the shadows Flexing, licking toes and binding as slowly The sun sets on the same old hill The same red glow - we're quite alone Just you and me and the rainbows Everything I own is in the corner of your room It's covered with a sheet just like it died But I will take a broom, sweep it new again Arrange it - oh, I'll grow a dozen hands No, I never will neglect my world again I'm safe beneath my blanket - come home For you for me and the rainbows Loaded guns attract We know the rules - we don't react We wait in hope - We don't expect Just you and me and the rainbows Looking down
