Downpour

Hold on darling, I've taken only sips I've been searching for someone, someone to eclipse You're out of my reach, I could not prepare But don't stop me now 'cause you're going nowhere Been onto something for so damn long Eventually I'll find it running along An alleyway in the back of my mind Waiting, just waiting, as something to find The streets grow damp from eternal downpour Don't stop me now 'cause I've found I want more See now clearly through smeared lenses What is this feeling crowding my senses I stumble through thickets towards salvation Clutching my ticket in desperation Forsaken, mistaken, on rocky shores I'm stuck in, I'm stuck in, another downpour My thoughts are linked in smoky rooms Like spider's silk, I work at the loom Though sleepless my head drifts down the stream Floating forever on a technicolour moonbeam Down the tunnel of melancholy folly I hid, abandoning ego in favour of id Enough of metaphoricals I cannot bear Another single second of your categoric stare In my imagination you're a coveted elk Pour qui un méchant a chanté pour quelques Time, there's been another slip I feel as though we've just begun our maiden trip Can you see my super-ego breaking his lip Hip hip hooray another sip-dipped in week's pay Of a chardonnay bottle, cracked on the floor Another bed-sore who-for we've been leaving poor