Wet As A Cloud

Give up the ghost, hold me close
Sing me the song that you love most
The words hang like diamonds with music inside them
Colliding in time with your mouth

Find me alone, walk me home
Show me a world I've not yet known
The buildings are breathing, they cry when their sleeping
We're hurting their feelings somehow

So send an apology, made of technology
Bricks turn to circuits instead
Sing like a microphone, talk like a telephone
Watch like a film in your head

Bleed like a needle, don't listen to people
They only say things so that something gets said
Cough like a cigarette, turn like a tourniquet
Burn like a fire truck red

Sleep like a pillow and wave like a window
In winter with skull covered ledge
The birds will return soon to bend round your bedroom
While radios talk to the dead
And you dream like a bed, dream like a bed

Whisper and speak, touch my cheek
Show me the smile that makes me weak
Cars crashed whenever we kiss, everything vanishes
Sweetness is all I feel

Write on my hand, understand
Breathe in the way only you can
You know that you are both
The love note caught in my throat
And the hope that it's real

So end like a funeral
Send out the usual static police from your lungs
Swallow like medicine
I think your better than anything under the sun

Oh life remystified! Oh walking Valentine!
Oh unimaginable love!
Smoke like a factory, steal my identity
Sell it right back to me now

Break like tradition in need of revision
Transmissions will listen like sound
Think like a memory, warm and Septembery
Endlessly coming unwound
Til you find yourself found like the graves in the ground
Tears rolling out of eyes wet as a cloud
But it's only the sound of your joy coming down!