I See Seaweed

I see seaweed on the lawn

There's no point coming here no more

Do you remember way back when?

When weeks sank in the swimming pool

Holidays were cotton wool

Your bald tyre friends, the pelicans, cowboys and indians

Admit it, she was kinda cute

Her panties were your parachute

They found her near the airport, in a crater, near the bend

Where she and I'd walk by the zoo

Not knowing we'd do what all plagues do

I forget her all the time these days and be forgotten too

We're lockstepping in our billions

Lockstepping in our swarms

Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born

I was fine but not the whole time, see

I fiddled while Rome stewed

It choked my heart, but spades are spades

My head's here now to tell you

We're lockstepping in our billions

Lockstepping in our swarms

Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born

And ain't that just the way things are

Yeah, you always went too far

And ain't that just the way things go

Passports please, sir you are next

Do you fly direct or indirect?

As the years bleed off that answer's getting harder to detect

Like all the rare air on the cabin floor

Your in-flight film's a score that should be settled

Once the holster calcifies around your neck

But now it's prefab bars, tax free cigars

Stopovers in Bahrain

And they put horse tranqs in the fuel tanks and the staff are all insane

And we're lockstepping in our billions

Lockstepping in our swarms

Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born

I'm like a Lockheed in a thunderhead

An Airbus in the sea

The sky is blue, I am too

Yet everything seems clear

We're lockstepping in our billions

Lockstepping in our swarms

Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born

But ain't that just the way things are

Yeah, you always went too far

But ain't that just the way things go

She'd recollect how fucked you were

All matter of a fact

And then defend you, being squeamish about the knife stuck in her back

She only sang the dead bird songs

And now I know them all

It's like I'm shooting at a shadow

That a bomb burned on the wall

And we're lockstepping in our billions

Lockstepping in our swarms

Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born

There ain't no making what you're breaking

Nothing left of her to clone

I can't remember how she looked although

I do recall her smile coming down the telephone

But ain't that just the way things are

Yeah, you always went too far

And ain't that just the way things go

Yeah, pretending you don't know