Lovers - Kid Quiet
The Gutter And The Garden (2004)
Lyrics:
tears of white and grey
fall upon your handle-bars and mix in with the rain
oh what a day
you'd never seen a brighter star, you'd never be the same
cause when we touch
the shadow of a bicycle is no more beautiful than us
so at dusk
meet me on old summer road in the autumn cold to talk
kid genius
you built me a radio, said when I feel alone, turn it on
and I'll find you there somewhere with a tinfoil smile or like a star
with no one ever there you'd laugh each time they didn't care so now your sides ache and I came too late
with glitter in your eyes you'd laugh each time you would've cried so now your sides ache
you laughed until the tears came
and now you've gone away
and in a little room I dream of you and the picture in my brain doesn't fade
like the circles of a radio signal float out into space
and before you left you came and hung a string of lights around my bike as I slept
a sweet planet
where fireflies zoom like a hundred moons around your room in orbit
is my wish
and a ten-foot-tall mirror-ball hung from city hall
and good magic
good magic
my constellation kid
I plotted the route you'd traveled through and the line I drew connnecting it
made a clear image
of a lightening bold through your childhood home like the stories told on your wrist
tears of white and grey
never seen a brighter star.