THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU

THE 1st time I saw you

I did try hard to burn my eyes

life was but a sad dream

I was but a sad breath

but you were somehting like sand

when sunliht hits the sea

THE 2nd time I saw you

I was about to hit the road

I asked could you wait for me

you said life ain't a highway

better if we been born

as siamese songbirds

THE 3rd time I saw you

we went to the bar

all steady hot beers

sorrowlful monkeys

big eyes laughing

wish I had not held hands

THE 4th time I saw you

it was like I was gonna die

I was waiting outside

you just had a new boy

asked me why I, I

son wont'you come along

we have no time for another song

wont' you sing along

we have no sea, child

THE 5th time I saw you

he was travelling abroad

and your eyes, they were not here

you just made new friends

while I tried to stop with cigarrettes

THE 6th time I saw you

I was propperly insane

for the whisky I had drunk

for the drugs I'd taken

gimme just one way you will realise

THE 7th time I saw you

you were married again

if I had just once kissed you

things wouldn't be the same

cause surely the sky'd be different

THE 8th time I saw you

I was strumming the guitar

& your ears were not for me

my ears were a-bleeding

the waiter was blind

please someone blind my eyes

THE last time I saw you

was about ten a.m.

you approuched me in a strange car

and finally kissed me

then did wave goodbye

before you disappear

sometimes I ache, baby

you should be hard enough to stand

but our songs they just drown me

coming back from work

having sour breakfast

seasick from your chest

Helio Flanders