Chalk Flowers - The Clientele

[00:00.0]Chalk Flowers - The Clientele
[00:00.24]Lyrics by：Alasdair MacLean/the Clientele
[00:00.6]Composed by：Alasdair MacLean/the Clientele
[00:00.97]After midnight everybody left the houses for the Alice
[00:07.88]She'd pelt the neighbors windows when lookin' for a fight
[00:14.37]She beckoned me towards her
[00:17.5]She moved her fingers forward
[00:20.71]The Jasmine blew and I just smiled
[00:27.14]She said where are you going
[00:29.88]I said nowhere you'd have heard of
[00:33.37]There's a cornfield by an avenue when all the clouds are still
[00:39.95]A horse met on a ridgeway
[00:43.23]Though he's imaginary
[00:46.36]And over to the west a king sleeps in the hill
[01:05.65]It's kinda like when evening comes
[01:08.729996]The moment you aren't lookin'
[01:12.03]And then you get the chills but you know you're alive
[01:18.270004]And when she reached to kiss me
[01:20.94]I knew there was no escaping
[01:24.79]This kid set fires where the good smells drive
[01:31.18]We went up to the Thames
[01:34.25]Where she lived with her sister
[01:37.759995]And there by the lamplight
[01:40.05]She undressed without a smile
[01:44.11]And I had no idea I'd be in bits and pieces
[01:50.19]As I flowered through her skin
[01:53.33]And she flowered through mine
[02:09.75]I took her to the cornfield
[02:12.73]I took her to the greenwood
[02:15.98]I took her to the places
[02:18.53]I had loved as a child
[02:22.45999]And when at last I lost her in
[02:25.42]A bill-bucks on a hill
[02:28.6]I threw some restless matches
[02:31.83]Down into her path
[02:35.09]The king's sleep is unbroken
[02:38.29001]The hospice window's open
[02:41.39]At night I dream of Oramorph
[02:44.51]And simple childhood games
[02:48.07]And when I came back home
[02:50.97]Somebody had left the lights on
[02:54.34]And all that I am is changed
[03:13.44]And the streets may tell the future
[03:16.53]What birds choose in numbers
[03:19.73]And they glide to the lines in the palm of your hand
[03:26.17]It's a word you can't remember in the corner of your memory
[03:32.65]It says that she loved you but you don't understand
[03:38.9]By the end of November
[03:42.17]There was diesel in the gutters
[03:45.26]And I'd made up my mind I would head back south
[03:52.07]The wind moved through the city
[03:54.87]Through the palaces and priest halls
[03:58.3]I packed my bags and I shut my mouth