Side B Songtext
von Alohaha

Our voices join in a high note, now over
Breathless we fall
Caught in the hanging chords, now silent
Grab my hand in the nausea

I made a bed out of irony
Lie with me and my broken bones
To liberate it, cheek to cheek
In the final glow

I lay you down in the quivering grass
Your legs so frail that you crawl after your convictions
My skin begins to pale in the dark
I grab your hand in the nausea

I made a bed out of irony
Lie with me and my broken bones
To liberate it, cheek to cheek
In the final glow

--(2:53)--


You grow younger
Pull at my future like a toy train
Afraid of the dark
In a hotel room you sleep and lay

You leave your dedication on the table
Along with her tip
Here I am, back peddling

You keep certain knick knacks in
Your memory but rarely take them out
Necessity is a large pie
And patriarchy bends down to give you your piece

The game becomes familiar but you′re not
So unpredictably winded, back peddling

--(5:45)--

Are you happy?
Now that you know
Are you sorry?

I was terrified to leave
5am and freezing
She was sleeping in her clothes
I fell into a gypsy cab and I could do the math


If you take a lover
Will you tell me when it happens?
'Cause it′s worse to imagine it

A little something in the chocolate
Let me call up an old friend
And alphabetise my records
Leave a man alone, he'll get lost in his own home

If you take a lover
Will you tell me when it happens?
'Cause it′s worse to imagine it
Worse to imagine

--(8:28)--

Baby, are you crying?
Shaking and alone
Afraid to lose the things
That mean the most

Weightless, with arms wide open
Miles from Los Angeles coast
You gotta fight until

You come home
And we′ll try to start a new life
And pull the sadness up and off of us
And I can be better to you
A ghost in the hotel ballroom

--(10:53)--

Here I lie in the absence of her last breath
Hold my disappointment to my chest
The nightmare begins
Then settles in to the floorboards
The city cries
And I stumble blindly to save my last goodbye

At the hollow below her collarbone
I listen in the morning for a voice I've known
The evening falls over my body
Like guiltiness, her memory dies
And I stumble blindly to save my last goodbye