Sinking Ships

I don't want to talk to you and you don't want to talk to me

So I'll shut my eyes and think of England while I speak

You don't want my photograph and I don't want to know your name

You say we look the same like everybody else

Maybe that's 'cos we like to keep ourselves to ourselves

But you want something different, you want something false

You want your opinion to always be involved

That won't last at all, no that's not natural

If you should change your colours

or you should change your mind

I won't go holding grudges

I let sleeping dogs lie

Oh how you'd love it if we had disappeared along the horizon,

Going down like sinking ships in the nighttime,

But no one came to save our souls,

No one came to fix the holes,

But we made it back to land,

So if you've backed the underdog,

You may collect your winnings,

If you could see in colours

If you should change your mind,

I won't go holding grudges,

I let sleeping dogs lie

Oh but by the same token,

I cannot forget,

How you hanged your own quarter,

Those you don't respect,

So I will not pretend,

You and i want to be friends,

'cos we both know that that would be a lie.