I Often Dream Of Trains lyrics

I'm in love with a Beautiful Girl,
Yes I'm in love with a beautiful girl.
Well I thought I knew all about everything,
but I'm in love with a beautiful girl.
And she's staring through a crack in the sky,
Yes she's staring through a crack in the sky.
Well I thought I knew all about everything,
but I'm in love with a beautiful girl.
Well I thought I knew all about everything,

(she's certainly clickot)
(she's certainly cruel)
she was tapering to a point
in a corona of foam
i had one chance to stop her eggs
pronounced 'eggs' or 'brad'
but although inches from her column
i started falling out
dover, get undressed, this
car is parked with a sponge
a mine is a persuasive place
especially when it's dark
she uncorked herself
teeth spilling from her nostrils

linda ryan
in the sky
i've seen her laughing
but i've never seen her cry
she took a fireman
it was a half empty flight
he brought his hose and
everything just turned out right
i'm just watching
german leather
a german tongue
lapping pleasure
when he's rubbery and young
he played the oboe
i thought he would
he does it better
than a guitarist like me could
i'm just watching

Sweet ghost of light, when you appear,
you fall around me, everywhere.
I see your face as you pass by,
as fragile as a dragonfly.
You jab me in the kidneys like,
a compass or an iron spike,
but I can't help belief in you,
because I love the things you do.
Sweet ghost of light, I've lived too long,
I'd die for you inside this song.
The sweetest death that I can dream.

I used to say I love you
It wasn't really true
I wanted to believe it
And now I almost do
I used to say I love you
I said it as a threat
Or maybe as a promise
To see what I could get
But my heart doesn't break anymore
No my heart doesn't ache anymore
'Cause it just couldn't take any more
And I've lost my illusions about you now
I used to say I love you
It wasn't what I meant

I watch the cars go back and forth
I watch the cars go back and forth
I watch the cars go back and forth
Sometimes south and sometimes north
I watch the cars
I hear them stopping down the street
I hear them stopping down the street
I hear the sound of stocking feet
I wonder who they're going to meet
I'm getting drunk inside my house
I see the men inside their shells

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
CHORUS
More than this-there is nothing
More than this-tell me one thing
More than this-thre is nothing
It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing

In the tower the lover sighs
"Good Sir Knight, please take my eyes - I've used them"
"Doctor, doctor, I'm on fire!"
"Oh, I'm sad to hear that squire - we're closing"
She snuffs you out like silk
And pours you out like milk
But just before the dawn appears, stealing all the blue away
And just before all your perspectives change
Isn't it strange?

Your mother is a journalist, your father is a creep
They make it in your bedroom when they think you're fast asleep
The scenes that they're enacting now beside your little bed
Are never in your consciousness but always in your head
Baby
It might sound dodgy now
But it sounds great when you're dead
It sounds great when you're
Your sister is a butterfly, your brother is a drunk

Your mother is a journalist, your father is a creep
They make it in your bedroom when they think you're fast asleep
The scenes that they're enacting now beside your little bed
Are never in your consciousness but always in your head
Baby
It might sound dodgy now
But it sounds great when you're dead
It sounds great when you're
Your sister is a butterfly, your brother is a drunk

You wear the lizard's shoes and afterwards you get confused
You wear the lizard's coat and afterwards you fail to float
You take the lizard's path but look who's lying in the bath
You wear the lizard's skin no man can be a god and win at all
You take the lizard's mask but look who's lying in the cask
And the clocks have stopped you'll find out what the lizard
dropped

Trams of old London
Taking my baby into the past in it
Trams of old London blow my mind
Ludgate, Fenchurch, Highgate Hill
Rolling slowly up there still, uh-huh
Waterloo and Clerkenwell
Out to Aldgate East as well, uh-huh
On a clear night you can see
Where the rails used to be
Oh it seems like ancient myth
They once ran to Hammersmith
Trams of old London

on the horizon of the gulls and plovers
she saw the outline of transparent lovers
in a hotel room underneath the covers
who should i see but the transparent lovers
why is she built that way i soon discovered
try to embrace her your transparent lover
try to belong to her you won't recover
see your reflected in your transparent lover
gone lord, gone, gone
fade boy, fade

Where do spiders wander,
in and out thunder?
I will sit and wonder,
with my Vegetable Friend.
Where do lions water,
after casual slaughter?
I will kiss the daughter
of my Vegetable Friend.
Where the sky is glistening
nobody is listening,
I'll go to the christening
of my Vegetable Friend.
It's raining in Europe,
but I've got no proof.
I've got the semolina blues.

I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus
Gazing out across the open sea
I have seen the sleeping knights of Jesus
And they look extremely tired to me
Dyin' of starvation in the gutter (in the gutter)
That is all the future holds for me (holds for me)
Or alcoholic poisoning in the toilet of my choice
That's all there is, as far as I can see

Somewhere in the autumn sea
The kind of love you are to me I stole you
>From a very special friend
so the friendship had to end and how
You can't kill relationships
Watch them drown like sinking ships around you
But to live is to betray
Every second, every day-Oh wow
Here comes the now
Soomewhere in the autumn air
I can smell you everywhere beside me
Though your face has disappeared