Isolation

You promise that you’ll never leave
You say you’ve wracked your mind
For words to convince me
Suspended me in disbelief
You never tire of finding ways to forgive me
I know they’ll come in force at dawn
To find flowers of fury fresh from Kingston
To tell us we don’t know we’re born
Another night of this and we’d all have been history
But could you go back to living on California wine
And BC Nugs Book matches and Turner classics,
Re-fried beans and the ceaseless search for love
It isn’t that I can’t be strong
I’ve just been left alone too long to begin with
You tell me that I got it wrong
I only see one side and my eyes have been blinkered
You’re forcing all my friends to leave
You finally colonized my suite with your pass key
You got me on a new regime
But the lawless road seems loathe to release me
Could you go back to living on California wine
And BC Nugs Book matches and Turner classics,
Re-fried beans and the thankless search for love
That’s when my enemy’s enemy becomes my friend
I have travelled almost half the world
To leave me more confused than I was to begin with
You think you’ve finally found your girl
But the Siren’s song proves hard to compete with
I know they’ll come in force at dawn
To find flowers of fury fresh from Kingston
To tell us we don’t know we are born
100 years ago we would all have been history
But could you go back to living on California wine
And BC Nugs Book matches and Turner classics,
Re-fried beans and the ceaseless search for love
That’s when my enemy’s enemy becomes my friend
That’s when my enemy’s enemy becomes my friend
You could have anybody waltzing your time
On the tarmac trailing silk
Now renting at the gardens of Allah
Take to your bed with codeine and pangs of guilt
That’s when my enemy’s enemy becomes my friend
That’s when my enemy’s enemy becomes my friend