From Listening To Lightning
I grew up in a seaside
Town where the devil lives
Bonfire lights in the woods at
Night set to be afraid
Down the street past the sweet shop
Kids dipped in angel dust
Up the block crooked cops always
Look the other way took my board away
Call it confiscate
Under a rotting log in them woods
Salamanders live
They never have any trouble finding their
Own kind in the springtime
I know it's true you'd be
Happier with somebody else
Tripping over the logs in the
Woods in your own time in the meantime
I am your time
Just trying to talk to you straight again
Why would you listen to me?
I went from listening to lightning
To running from thunder
From getting my ass kicked
To running for cover
You say you'll never be lonely
I don't think you can know me
Cos we're no good for each other
We'll both know that when it's over
Under this happy smile on my
Face there's an angry boy
All he wants is to win fist fights
That he lost in high school
I know that angry boys do
Not grown up lovers make
I promise he will be quiet long enough for
You to fall for baby run away
Just trying to talk to him straight again
He'll never listen to me
We went from listening to lightning
To running from thunder
From getting our ass kicked
To running for covers
You'll say you'll never be lone
Maybe it's the drugs and the alcohol talking
Maybe it's your neighbour and the
Shoes that he was walking
Maybe it's the empty promise of tomorrow
Suspect it was the hippies and
The money that they borrowed
Maybe there's no Jesus here to
Save us from the devil
Maybe we're just like Roman we
Can blame the Heavy Metal
Maybe building suburbs wasn't such
A good idea maybe this is the condition of
Being stupid human beings
Who think it's possible to
Listen to lightning?
You say you'll never be lonely
Then I don't think you can know me
'Cos we're no good for each other
We'll both know that when it's over
I know it sounds like the same damn tune
But it's somebody else's song
And if we're talking about
I'll give you the lame excuse I'm
Gonna do what my father did
Baby if that's all we got
Baby we don't deserve this