24-Emmy the Great

[ti:24] [ar:Emmy the Great] [al:First Love] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.45]You are watching a programme for exactly an hour [00:05.84]All of these hours they will add up to a day [00:10.78]You will sit there till they're done but there are 24 to play [00:15.71]There'll be rims around your eyelids by the 7th or the 8th [00:20.12]But if you go to sleep tonight you will be older when you wake [00:28.39] [00:29.39]And you say one man is the parachute [00:34.63]And the other is the knife that cuts the brake [00:41.06]First we were born then we ran slowly out of luck [00:47.11]You are still not charles bukowski and i am not diane cluck [00:51.87]And i would suck the life from you if there was any left to suck [00:57.12]And i would love you if you told me there was something there to love [01:02.00]I would marry you for money [01:05.10]I would marry you for money [01:07.41]I would marry you for money or for luck [01:12.59]I would marry you for money [01:14.96]But i don't suppose you'll ever have enough [01:18.37] [01:21.32]Well the man on the screen he has done more in a minute [01:27.26]Than you have achieved in your whole entire life [01:32.75]When you finally realise i was the best thing you had in it [01:38.24]We'll be closing up your eyelids on the bed or once you die [01:42.88]And i'll be sorry if it happens to you [01:46.53]Sorry if it happens to you [01:48.84]Sorry if it happens to you but [01:52.98]I guess if one man is the cancer [01:56.24]Then his death is just the knife that makes the cut [02:00.29] [02:05.16]24 for every year that we have slept [02:08.72] [02:09.53]Day by day into the neck of the abyss [02:13.71]And i am 24 today i don't believe i'll sit [02:19.30]Through another year of this [02:21.41]While you are sewing up your lips [02:24.42]And i'll be sorry that you happened to me [02:27.80]Sorry that you happened to me [02:29.86]Sorry that you happened to me but [02:34.22]They say that one man is the accident [02:37.41]The other is the hand that stops the blood [02:41.65]And i am looking for the other one [02:48.26]The hand that stops the blood