Marbles

Song Marbles
Artist Tindersticks
Album Tindersticks (1st album)

Lyrics

[00:26.800] Her haircut, she looked pudgy and made-up
[00:31.281] In that dress growing ever tighter
[00:35.743] It was saddening the lengths she had gone to
[00:37.918] To appear more attractive
[00:40.151] In the process losing something
[00:42.430] We never knew but still missed
[01:02.469] You knew you were lost as soon as you saw her
[01:05.023] You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps
[01:11.447] Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally
[01:15.318] Together you squirmed and wriggled
[01:17.233] And I could only jerk along behind
[01:23.290] They're going to hurt you
[01:32.028] They always will
[01:38.027] She is now with me, inside of you
[01:40.229] And I could only stare wide-eyed
[01:41.904] As everything closed in around the three of us
[01:46.924] Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue
[01:51.568] That were rushing through our body
[01:53.782] And it's good
[02:16.851] They're going to hurt you
[02:25.616] They always will
[02:31.773] She opened the door his face bruised and swollen
[02:34.254] Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs
[02:40.616] Our message lost and our plans forgotten
[02:44.405] Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes
[02:49.552] Moving in, kicking, stamping
[02:51.685] Bland expressionless faces
[02:54.042] A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin
[02:58.461] Memories, memories
[03:10.779] They're going to hurt you
[03:19.084] They always will
[03:44.364] In a northern town there were amazing rows of standing stones arranged on the southern slope
[03:44.534] They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness
[03:48.780] Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who make the desert island
[03:48.959] I saw you in a tin bath in red water
[03:50.350] Were the ones who went to Washington to do their laundry
[03:51.330] They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane
[03:53.202] I never believed in New York, or where you intended to stand
[03:56.972] But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked
[03:58.071] I just had to go
[04:00.442] They came