Tickets To Waterfalls

Tickets To Waterfalls

(Brown/Bruce)

I bought you tickets for the waterfalls

and you poured away all the change

Trained your bicycle to dance

told it tales of window boxes and people with locks

While you filed away the time

and lost the place in the river

Couldn't do anything about the days

But I helped with some of the nights

You worked my blisters to the bone

playing songs of tiny men and bridges in wine

While you led the time astray

and lost your head in the rainbow

You never saw anything glittering

but you had to melt it down

I made you rivers all run dry

soaked them up with train timetables and carpets of lies

And I listened to your smile

and found my place in the morning.