Ticket Puncher-Mick Harvey

[ti:The Ticket Puncher] [ar:Mick Harvey] [al:Pink Elephants] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ticket Puncher - Mick Harvey [00:10.04]I'm the ticket puncher at Lilas [00:13.17]To whom the passengers pay no regard [00:16.40]There's no sunshine in this Metro station [00:18.94]A strange vacation [00:20.34]To kill the boredom in my vest [00:21.94]I've extracts from Readers Digest [00:24.31]And this book says to me [00:27.27]That life is just a ball in Miami [00:30.57]All the while I'm working like a slave [00:33.09]Down in this cave [00:34.65]They say work's better than the dole [00:36.29]But all day long I just make holes [00:38.42]I punch holes little holes then more little holes [00:41.63]Little holes little holes always little holes [00:44.53]I make second-class holes [00:47.80]And punch first-class holes [00:50.86]I punch holes little holes then more little holes [00:53.83]Little holes little holes always little holes [00:57.00]Little holes little holes [00:58.38]Little holes little holes [01:02.32]I'm the ticket puncher at Lilas [01:05.25]For Invalides you change at Opera [01:08.35]I live down in the bowels of this here planet [01:10.95]I have in my head [01:12.56]A carnival of confetti [01:14.48]It even gets between my sheets [01:16.56]Under this white tile sky [01:19.53]The only things that shine are exit signs [01:22.59]At times I dream I go into a daze [01:25.35]And in the haze [01:26.73]The railway platform is a quay [01:28.70]A boat is coming to get me [01:30.68]From this hole little hole where I make little holes [01:33.71]From this hole little hole where I make little holes [01:36.72]But the boat is sailing [01:39.78]My day-dream's always failing [01:43.05]And I stay in this hole punching little holes [01:45.96]Little holes little holes always little holes [01:49.09]Little holes little holes [01:50.39]Little holes little holes [01:54.36]I'm the ticket puncher at Lilas [01:57.35]Arts-et-Metiers direct by Levallois [02:00.61]I've had enough I've had it with this bulls**t [02:03.25]Down in this cesspit [02:04.74]I'd like to be on the trapeze [02:06.62]Leave my cap and cloak room keys [02:08.62]The day will come I'm sure [02:11.65]When I will get away to something more [02:14.75]I'll take a car a plane a train a yacht [02:17.35]No matter what [02:18.89]But if the time I have is cursed [02:20.50]I'll have to leave this place feet first [02:22.94]I punch holes little holes then more little holes [02:25.80]Little holes little holes always little holes [02:28.94]I think I will trifle [02:32.02]With a great big rifle [02:34.98]And make a hole a little hole one last little hole [02:37.97]And make a hole a little hole one last little hole [02:40.70]And then they'll put me in a hole [02:42.35]Where I will hear no more of holes [02:43.95]Never again of little holes [02:45.27]Of little holes of little holes of little holes [02:47.58]Of little holes