The Ticket Puncher-Mick Harvey

[ti:The Ticket Puncher] [ar:Mick Harvey] [al:Pink Elephants] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ticket Puncher - Mick Harvey [00:09.90]I'm the ticket puncher at Lilas [00:13.03]To whom the passengers pay no regard [00:16.26]There's no sunshine in this Metro station [00:18.79]A strange vacation [00:20.20]To kill the boredom in my vest [00:21.80]I've extracts from Readers Digest [00:24.17]And this book says to me [00:27.13]That life is just a ball in Miami [00:30.43]All the while I'm working like a slave [00:32.94]Down in this cave [00:34.51]They say work's better than the dole [00:36.15]But all day long I just make holes [00:38.27]I punch holes little holes then more little holes [00:41.49]Little holes little holes always little holes [00:44.39]I make second-class holes [00:47.66]And punch first-class holes [00:50.72]I punch holes little holes then more little holes [00:53.69]Little holes little holes always little holes [00:56.86]Little holes little holes [00:58.24]Little holes little holes [01:02.17]I'm the ticket puncher at Lilas [01:05.11]For Invalides you change at Opera [01:08.21]I live down in the bowels of this here planet [01:10.80]I have in my head [01:12.41]A carnival of confetti [01:14.34]It even gets between my sheets [01:16.42]Under this white tile sky [01:19.39]The only things that shine are exit signs [01:22.45]At times I dream I go into a daze [01:25.21]And in the haze [01:26.59]The railway platform is a quay [01:28.56]A boat is coming to get me [01:30.54]From this hole little hole where I make little holes [01:33.57]From this hole little hole where I make little holes [01:36.57]But the boat is sailing [01:39.64]My day-dream's always failing [01:42.90]And I stay in this hole punching little holes [01:45.82]Little holes little holes always little holes [01:48.94]Little holes little holes [01:50.25]Little holes little holes [01:54.22]I'm the ticket puncher at Lilas [01:57.21]Arts-et-Metiers direct by Levallois [02:00.47]I've had enough I've had it with this bulls**t [02:03.10]Down in this cesspit [02:04.59]I'd like to be on the trapeze [02:06.48]Leave my cap and cloak room keys [02:08.47]The day will come I'm sure [02:11.51]When I will get away to something more [02:14.61]I'll take a car a plane a train a yacht [02:17.20]No matter what [02:18.75]But if the time I have is cursed [02:20.35]I'll have to leave this place feet first [02:22.79]I punch holes little holes then more little holes [02:25.66]Little holes little holes always little holes [02:28.79]I think I will trifle [02:31.88]With a great big rifle [02:34.83]And make a hole a little hole one last little hole [02:37.82]And make a hole a little hole one last little hole [02:40.55]And then they'll put me in a hole [02:42.21]Where I will hear no more of holes [02:43.81]Never again of little holes [02:45.13]Of little holes of little holes of little holes [02:47.44]Of little holes