Vanilla Swingers

Pennies on the pavement for Jim and Wayne and Rose Tattered flyers beg our help in tracing some of those lost and lonely fractured souls who vanished long ago Where you find them, sad to say, it's true God only knows You linger late in cafes, look ba

All I have is words, words that don't obtain And I feel I'm a stain on your horizon So I stay away - it's easier that way And there won't be no-one I need to rely on Is it him, is it me Or is there something only I can see How did I get here, why do

Sometimes you've got to get away If I had a car I'd drive it To a place where they don't know my face Change my clothes, my shoes, my hair and my name But I'll stay next to you Not sure what happens when we get there We're just in love with going som

Someone's gone and I'm unbelieving Dreaming, thought I still heard you breathing Then, when I wake, it's just the rain '85, a beautiful morning Knew what I must do I understand you had to go There's nowhere here that feels like home It all feels wron

It's thirty years since '85 Robbie's dead but Pete's alive Or so the weblogs say But no-one's reading them Today my past caught up with me And you were standing over there You asked me what's the time You asked me what's the year and smiled the sadde

Careless memories always lie Times and places you can't buy from years ago Boys and girls that you once knew all grown up and over you won't let you go Photographs are bittersweet Future plans are in retreat before too long Don't look back There's da

There's a cone in the river and a Safeway's trolley overturned By the pre-postmodern business centre someone forgot to burn down The town was where we met but it could all have been so different Well I'd been here for ever - sixteen years that felt l

You can see the future Just stop and look around yer Oh, this impossible world was never meant to be And maybe we get what we deserve I've seen the evidence Packaged experience, things I want but know I'll never need No way, no way The fame economy D