Up To Our Necks In It-Skunkhour

[ti:Up To Our Necks In It] [ar:Skunkhour] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Up To Our Necks In It - Skunkhour [00:10.74]Broken free free almost [00:19.07] [00:21.51]Prettier than that butterfly [00:22.79]I watch you head off through this night sky [00:24.91] [00:26.38]The thought of you lingers like the smoke [00:27.92]That's drifting from my fingers [00:29.85]While I sit i see there's a tree outside my room [00:32.89]My face reflected in the pain of this moon [00:35.36] [00:36.99]Outside the cold rain cleanses my soul [00:39.18]Whole the distance between the rooms [00:40.95]Of my thoughts of us all [00:42.58] [00:44.10]Sitting in that room sometimes [00:45.43]I get to thinking about myself [00:46.74] [00:47.27]Love where does it come from [00:48.96] [00:49.71]For days on end i would plead to the moon [00:51.65]Where can i find someone to strip my flesh back [00:54.20]Bare to where the word begins [00:56.00] [00:56.79]Strip my flesh back bare to the wind [00:59.34]That violates my skin [01:00.76] [01:01.66]Washing away under the sun [01:04.19] [01:04.95]I vanish in the street heat [01:06.89]Melting on tar [01:08.13]Lost in a wave of cut-throat urban values [01:11.98]Looking for some getting too few [01:15.34]Breathing fumes and pipe-dreams [01:18.29]Sliding Holding [01:26.37] [01:43.82]We're up to our necks in it [01:46.81] [01:49.01]We're up to our necks in it [01:52.11] [01:54.41]Walking the streets of this big shitty gritty city [01:57.03]On a day when i feel like I'm living too close [01:59.08]To the big electric light bulb in the sky [02:01.42] [02:02.08]Shy the rats with wings mingle about my feet [02:06.17]When i come to meet a man a forsaken man [02:08.74] [02:09.47]He is alone he has no home no family here [02:12.35]No brother no mother no sister no other [02:14.89] [02:15.48]He cries to me he is tired [02:17.74] [02:18.24]Where does he send his message [02:19.92]To what to whom to why to where does he send it [02:22.90]What force is going to mend it [02:24.53] [02:25.26]If we wished we could help this man [02:26.94]And our backs would not break [02:28.32] [02:29.04]But hypocrisy only leaves us constantly bended [02:31.98] [02:33.07]He wishes to end it [02:34.31]The progress that eats the soul of the past [02:37.10] [02:37.97]Demolished lost rebuilt [02:39.50]Dehumanised regimented [02:42.09] [02:42.70]When nine-to-five's the doctrine [02:45.12]Give me the sky red behind the grey [02:47.15] [02:48.08]Buildings framed in a sunset [02:50.36]I'm Sliding holding [02:59.53] [03:16.63]We're up to our necks in it [03:19.53] [03:21.85]We're up to our necks in it [03:25.40] [04:07.57]Progress that eats the soul of the past [04:09.98] [04:10.51]Demolished lost rebuilt [04:12.54]Dehumanised regimented [04:14.88] [04:15.67]When nine-to-five's the doctrine [04:17.96]Give me the sky red behind the grey [04:20.29] [04:20.79]Buildings framed in a sunset [04:23.13]I'm Sliding holding [04:28.97]We're up to our necks in it [04:33.87] [04:34.92]We're up to our necks in it