Sugar on Your Tongue

Sometimes life will spring up all around you
Imagination’s all you really need
Your plans and your ideas have just begun
The future sweet as sugar on your tongue
Then you watch your film alone and feel like crying
Seems like every game you play they let you win
Go down to the pub and drink some rum
And learn how other people get things done

You’re lost again in words like you invented them
There’s things you should have asked but didn’t dare
Ideas you’ve been keeping to yourself
Will gather dust like books up on a shelf
And all the things you have you feel are stolen
While you’re throwing the essentials all away
She said kiss me now before somebody comes
And left a taste like sugar on your tongue

And all the beasts of warmth and comfort
The suffocated victims of the sun
Their dashes to the finish will diminish
Increasingly they have no legs to run
It feels like the whole house is breathing
Trying to get up and walk away
She said let’s go out and have some fun
And disappear like sugar on your tongue