Rialto

In the evening rush she takes her seat by the window, and when she lights up nobody speaks - they adjust their clothes. she sits on the train from 5.15 to 5.50; it's always the same: "the w
Uot; she says, "they look at me," from saturday to saturday.

Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine.

Bathed in the blue wash of a tv screen, surfing served-up dreams, to the happy glow of the burger bar, watching the passing cars, from saturday to saturday.

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Contact unclean, lock me up in quarantine. contact, i'm unclean, lock me up in quarantine.

Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.
Quarantine, quarantine, all our lives we've been in quarantine.

It's only friction that causes all the sparks - they come between us and blow the world apart. it's only tension that i can't diffuse; you really made your mark, i've still got the bruise.

And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck, with love like semtex.

Like a dud firework that goes off in your face, we should have lit the sky but we burned down the whole place.

And now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck with love like semtex. more like a letter bomb blast than a valentine card, with love like semtex.

Now there's nothing left, just another twisted wreck with love like semtex. more like a letter bomb blast than a valentine card, with love like semtex.

Goodbye and all the best, with love like semtex,

With love like semtex, with love like semtex...

Sugar high, then she drops me from the sky, but it never stops me.

From the very first taste it began: i only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my ha
Ndy.

Glycerine is in my veins, it's serene until she runs out again...

Ever since the first taste it began: i only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my h
Andy.

Candy...

Such a waste when she leaves me - a bitter taste when i want her to feed me.

All the shiny paper's just a sham - i only wanna make her understand, hold her as she melts into my hands, even if she acts like she can't stand me - that's just my hard candy, that's just my ha
Ndy.

That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.
That's just my hard candy, that's just my hard candy.

Back when she was a girl there was a plan to see her through her life: get married, settled down, and have some kids and be a good housewife; but she would go to bed at night with day-glo stars
Airy lights stuck on the ceiling of her room as she dreamt of another life.

Now it's too late to go back home, it's saccharine and silicone, for a broken barbie doll. sleeping pills and alcohol, and nights she'd rather not recall, for a broken barbie doll.

And though the hands that played with her were cold she let them drag her down, and as her cardboard world begins to fall, she's lying on the ground.

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Her mother writes her every week, she says she's worried for health. her dad says she's finding her feet, but now she's lying on the shelf. like faulty goods that are returned, her pretty finger
All burnt.

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Broken barbie doll, for a broken barbie doll.
Broken barbie doll, for a broken barbie doll.
Broken barbie doll...

The lights come on, i track her moves: locking the door, crossing the room. she's on the phone again, and when she laughs i feel my blood rushing - i feel my blood rush to my heart...

I call her up and disconnect, wait by her house once more to check, stare through the window of her kitchenette, and then i follow her down underground escalators, hiding behind my newspaper unt
E time when we're together.

So here we are, alone again; i'm in the dark, she's in her frame, her window bay.

I play the film back through my mind with a few new scenes i've designed; maybe i'll write her one or two more lines, and then i'll follow her down underground escalators, hiding behind my newsp
Until the time when we're together.

Together, together, together, together...

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Together, when we're together,
Together, when we're together,
Together...

Kamikaze seagull planes fighting over chip shop take-away remains; when you're walking on the cliffs, you can't help thinking of how far down the sea is, and what if it should give...

I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over, seaside town; she says we shouldn't have come so far - this seaside town, summer's over.

Empty pubs echo with sounds - jukebox selections that keep going round and round. and maybe rain is all we need to come and wash the summer rubbish off the beach... oh, let's just go to sleep!

I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over, seaside town, she says we shouldn't have come so far, this seaside town...

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In the back of the arcades, kids borrow money to play one more final game while mothers wait in family cars. i wonder why we ever chose to come so far, but i wish you wouldn't ask...

I didn't mean to bring you down, summer's over seaside town, she says we shouldn't have come so far, this seaside town...

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This summer's over, seaside town,
This seaside town, summer's over,
Summer's over...
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