Lyrics Elizabeth Green - Donnette Thayer, Steve Kilbey

Elizabeth Green

Elizabeth makes abstract mistakes\nIn Chinatown when everything breaks\nRain in the windows Singapore eyes\nUnder the ladder and everything twice\nElizabeth Green burned her machine\nEntered the ashes under column fifteen\nThe days and the nights are gallantly looped\nShe falls from a world where dead kings are duped\nElizabeth wakes freezing mind lakes\nCan’t lift a hand for the dust that it makes\nThe music goes on but the ship has gone down\nDown to the bed with a shining glass sound\nElizabeth Green deep and marine\nChains planes and pearls and her number thirteen\nMile after mile burn after burn return\nReturn