Four Long Days

Lights are fading, the feeling is back

This is the closest thing to disaster

Keep on fading, snow white into black

The kind of thing you laugh about after

We were stuck, stacking misery

Four long days, in an ugly town

And we pretend to know about misery

You never felt the cold sun beating down

But you will soon

Watching TV, and flirting with fate

He drank my cold soul under the table

Feigning fever, to risk and to lay

You shouldn't cry, you're willing and able

I have locked, in a great image here

The voyeur in an ugly stare

And staring back, it's what you bargained for

You never felt the cold sun beating down

But you will soon

You'll have this family to support

One house and three young children

Biting at your hands

I don't pretend to understand

But listen, listen, listen

I have never liked that look in your eyes

And I am still screaming, shouting

"Please, please, forgive me for what I've done"

What have I done? Why is this taking so long?

The leather's cold but the engine is warm

I think of home, I think of the sweet lie

Of sweating sunshine in sandals and shorts

We had The Field Mice playing on the hi-fi

We got bored in our own living room

So we got stuck with an ugly fix

That kills your days and makes you forget a lot

And then you feel the hot sun beating down

And you start to cry