Every Defeat A Divorce (Three-Los Campesinos!

[ti:Every Defeat A Divorce (Three] [ar:Los Campesinos!] [al:Hello Sadness] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Every Defeat A Divorce (Three - Los Campesinos! [00:24.44]I am not a crutch [00:26.17] [00:27.33]Although my knees are rife with woodworm [00:30.06] [00:33.61]And the mealworms I misheard for lunch [00:36.94]Are rotting in my guts [00:39.17] [00:42.93]With a childhood of fingernails [00:46.27]That ripped my throat to shreds [00:48.73] [00:52.63]A walk that chimes like church bells [00:55.55]From all these loose joints in my legs [00:58.22] [01:03.66]These three lions that were sitting on my chest [01:06.31]Are clawing hard into my skin [01:07.53]As I am gasping for my breath [01:09.27]And as they each play noughts and crosses [01:10.61]On the scratches they have left [01:12.13]I have to screw up both my eyes [01:13.68]As it goes into sudden death [01:15.72]They whisper [01:16.39]Really all these noughts are circles holed bereft [01:18.35]And all these crosses crucifixes [01:19.42] [01:20.10]Spreading guilt and sense of dread [01:21.36]And as we stumbled homeward up the hill [01:23.21]To where you used to live [01:24.58]The cold makes ice upon our cheeks [01:26.08]From all the tears that we have shed [01:28.00]These things rattle round my head [01:31.03]If he hasn't blown the whistle [01:32.18]Then it isn't quite the end [01:34.84]Every defeat a divorce [01:37.81]Although I look surprised [01:40.08]It's part for the course I guess [01:43.59] [01:46.80]Every defeat a divorce [01:50.13]Although I look surprised [01:52.36]It's par for the course I guess [01:56.16] [01:58.44]And I don't really know now [02:00.89] [02:01.61]What I thought I knew then [02:04.07] [02:04.77]You can lead a horse to water [02:07.89]But it won't drown itself [02:10.50] [02:28.13]This one family photograph [02:31.09]Always floats to the top [02:32.67] [02:34.25]Like a beaming bloated corpse [02:36.80]Though having been made up [02:39.21] [02:40.34]My memories are sepia [02:42.99]But the photograph is not [02:45.59] [02:46.38]An historian is f**king with them [02:49.82]As deadly as garrotte [02:52.19] [02:54.22]Where they're standing in the kitchen [02:55.34]With his arms around her waist [02:56.86]With no idea of what's to come [02:58.59]And a smile across your face [03:00.14]And all the fittings are the same [03:01.42]But every other thing has changed [03:03.33]Must forget everything you know [03:04.54]As though your mouth and tongue estranged [03:06.62]Small comforts found in ABBA Gold [03:08.14]And electronic chess [03:09.56]When West Clewes was my Waterloo [03:11.11]My most dramatic test [03:12.36]Now I've been walking down the shortcuts [03:13.90]And the alleys in the dark [03:15.37]Because I'm not scared of the shadows [03:17.07]They're no blacker than my heart [03:18.90]These things rattle round my head [03:21.81]If he hasn't blown the whistle [03:23.07]Then it isn't quite the end [03:25.09]Every defeat a divorce [03:28.48]Although I look surprised [03:30.70]It's par for the course I guess [03:34.04] [03:37.37]Every defeat a divorce [03:40.55]Although I look surprised [03:42.88]It's par for the course I guess [03:46.09] [03:49.10]But how could I ever refuse [03:53.10] [03:54.98]I feel like I lose when I lose [03:59.75] [04:01.17]And I don't really know now [04:03.47] [04:04.18]What I thought I knew then [04:06.37] [04:07.42]You can lead a horse to water [04:10.32]But it won't drown itself