closer
[Verse 1]
I was told on the phone
That there’d be a way back
The blues and reds combine again
Keep them in your pocket
The weathermen said at half past ten
We’ll blow all our brains out
So read a book
Have a smoke and live forever
Live forever
And live forever
[Verse 2]
I fell down that hole
I fell off the rodeo
I got eaten by the bull
He only wants the four-leaf clover
The one he knows that I took
The one I lost so long ago
[Verse 3]
She greeted all her friends
With an improvised bomb strapped to her chest
Wonders how it came to this
How sixteen guns is all that’s left
Cut her hand off at the wrist
It grew back into a fist
[Verse 4]
I’m sending all my postcards
To the wrong address
And keeping tabs on who responds
And filling up the casket
With petals torn from a rose
Petals torn from a rose