'sights and sounds pull me back down another year, I WAS HERE, I WAS HERE, whipping past, the reflecting pool, me + you skipping school, and we make it up as we go along, we make it up as we go along, [...] do i have - of course i have beneath my raincoat, i have your photographs. and the sun on your face, i'm freezing that frame, [...] 'how did it go so fast' you'll say as we are looking back and then we'll understand we held gold dust in our hands, sights and sounds pull me back down another year I WAS HERE, I WAS HERE, gaslights, glow in the street (flickering past), twilight held us in her palm as we walked along, and we make it up as we go along, we make it up as we go along, letting names hang in the air, [...] and the day that she came, i'm freezing that frame, i'm freezing that frame, [...] 'how did it go so fast' you'll say as we are looking back and then we'll understand we held gold dust in our hands, in our hands'
'sorry if the sons of soap have said the same before but im losing hope, running out of hollow dope, you dont know the score, you stay on the top, broken ankles and naked feet, a throat strangled, an empty seat, i was thinking i could cope living on the shore but the waves please stop running aground birds that crop my small patience store and my telescope, broken ankles and naked feet, a throat strangled, an empty seat, attention starved and you deceit messages carved on empty seats, sorry if the sons of soap have said the before, but ive lost all hope'
'and if i die today i'll be the HAPPY phantom and i'll go chasin' the nuns out in the yard and i'll run naked through the streets without my mask on and i will never need umbrellas in the rain, i'll wake up in strawberry fields every day and the atrocities of school i can forgive, the HAPPY phantom has no right to bitch, woohoo the time is getting closer, woohoo time to be a ghost, woohoo every day we're getting closer, the sun is getting dim, will we pay for who we been? so if i die today i'll be the HAPPY phantom and i'll go wearin' my NAUGHTIES like a jewel, they'll be my ticket to the universal opera, there's judy garland taking buddha by the hand and then these seven little men get up to dance, they say confucius does his crossword with a pen, i'm still the angel to a girl who hates to SIN, woohoo the time is getting closer, woohoo time to be a ghost, woohoo every day we're getting closer, the sun is getting dim, will i pay for who i been? or will i see you dear and wish i could come back, you found a girl that you could TRULY love again, will you still call for me when she falls asleep or do we soon forget the things we cannot see? woohoo the time is getting closer, woohoo time to be a ghost, woohoo every day we're getting closer, the sun is getting dim, will i pay for who i been?'