Sweetheart let me in, I forgot my keys again
But you forgot to do the dishes, you forgot to clean the bin.
It's all very well learning poetry
by heart but it doesn't mean we have
to live like poets.

You can read a book and tell me what it means,
You can argue politics because you know your history.
You look happy without a smile,
I've been waiting here a little while,
For something good, for something bad to happen.

When you get up late you're wasting half the day away,
I thought we'd walk the dog but you can't stand the rain.
Well if you don't like dogs, then how can I like you?
When you first described yourself, you were not being true.
I speak a little Spanish, I did an evening course,
I can swim 30 lengths and I can cook a pepper sauce.
I can see in your eyes, you're somewhere else,
I can hear you talking to yourself.
Will something good, something bad happened.

And the stars, and the moon,
Have been keeping us together since June.
But the stars, and the moon,
Are getting bored of hearing I love you.
And the sun, and the clouds,
Are keeping us together somehow.
But the sun, and the clouds,
Are getting tired of being let down.

Everyone would like some dirty sex upon the floor,
Everyone cries on TV because they're bored.
Everyone looks sad when they smile.
They've been waiting a little while,
For something good, for something bad to happen,

And the stars, and the moon,
Have been keeping us together since June.
But the stars, and the moon,
Are getting bored of hearing I love you.
And the sun, and the clouds,
Are keeping us together somehow.
But the sun, and the clouds,
Are getting tired of being let down.

And the stars, and the moon,
Have been keeping us together since June.
But the stars, and the moon,
Are getting bored of hearing I love you, I love you.
And the sun, and the clouds,
Are keeping us together somehow.
But the sun, and the clouds,
Are getting tired of being let down.

When She Leaves Me

When she leaves me,
It will be a cloudy day,
There'll be a little rain,
A few patches of blue sky,
and trains on the
Northern line will be delayed because of signal failure.
And children will dream of the weekend,
And my neighbor's cat will sit on my back porch.

When she leaves me,
I'll be wearing scruffy trainers,
With paint on the side,
And mud caked underneath.
I'll have some mild toothache on the right side of my mouth,
And I'll probably need a shave.
The government will say they didn't do something
that they probably
actually did.
And Mark might phone me like he does each day and
I might pretend to be
not in.

But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
I will not try to understand

When she leaves me,
The rusty car outside my house will still be there.
with four parking tickets and a busted windscreen.
And at midday I
might take a walk, stretch my legs, get some air, feel

the wind.
I will see the retarded girl with the baseball cap,
who walks up and down the market
with a bunch of plastic flowers,
I will eat in a greasy spoon, regret it, then walk home.

But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
But when she leaves me
I will not try to understand