
Date of issue: 01.02.2004
Record label: 4AD
Song language: English
Your Belgian Things |
The men were here to get your Belgian things |
They’ll store them for you in an airplane hangar |
There’s guys in biohazard suits, mud caking on their rubber boots |
They’ve come to keep your pretty things from danger |
The men came here to get your Belgian things |
They’ll spend the whole day hauling them downstairs |
I shot a roll of 32 exposures |
My camera groans beneath the weight it bears |
I can see you in my sleep |
Playing the points for all your worth |
Walking gingerly across |
The bruised earth |
The men came here to get your Belgian things |
They waltzed right through the door and went fluorescent |
Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars |
Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent |
The arteries are clogging in the mainframe |
There’s too much information in the pipes |
I saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom |
A tiger’s never gonna change its stripes |
I guess, I guess |
But Jesus, what a mess |
One way in |
No way out |
The men came here to get your Belgian things |
While I was only here to see them do it |
I wish you had a number where you are |
It’s hard with no one here to help me through it |
I can see you in my sleep |
Playing the points for all your worth |
Walking gingerly across |
The bruised earth |
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