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the clientele - chalk flowers lyrics

[verse 1]
after midnight, everybody left the houses for the alleys
checked out the neighbors’ windows when looking for a fire
she beckoned me towards her, she moved her fingers forward
the jasmine bloomed and i just smiled

[verse 2]
she said, “where are you going?”
i said, “nowhere you’d have heard of”
there’s a cornfield by an avenue when all the clouds arе still
a horseman on a ridgeway, though he’s imaginary
and ovеr to the west, a king sleeps in the hill

[verse 3]
it’s kind of like when evening comes
the moment you aren’t looking
and then you get the chills, but you know you’re alive
and when she reached to kiss me, i knew there was no escaping
as kids set fires where the goods vans drive

[verse 4]
we went up to the tenement where she lived with her sister
and there beside the lamplight, she undressed without a smile
and i had no idea i’d be in bits and pieces
as i flowered through her skin and she flowered through mine
[verse 5]
i took her to the cornfield, i took her to the greenwood
i took her to the places i had loved as a child
and when at last, i lost her in a pillbox on the hill
i threw [?] matches down into a pond

[verse 6]
the king’s sleep is unbroken, the hospice windows open
at night i dream of oramorph and simple childhood games
and when i came back home, somebody’d left the lights on
and all that i am is changed

[verse 7]
in the streets they tell the future, watch birds choosing numbers
and they glide to the lines in the palm of your hand
it’s a word you can’t remember in the corner of your memory
it says that she loved you, but you don’t understand

[verse 8]
by the end of november, there was diesel in the gutters
and i’d made up my mind i would head back south
the wind blew through the city
through the palaces and priest halls
i packed my bags and i shut my mouth

- the clientele lyrics

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