Life of Crime - The Triffids

I've been looking for a free telephone Thought I'd ring to say I was catching the 12 20 home Out here Yeah yeah shut the door I get so lonely Out here I get so

Well I made goot time but took some bad advice I got lost in the salt lakes maybe once or twice Days went missing weeks they folded in two I lost track of them

American sailors are in town My sisters wear their thin summer frocks And dance with anyone Bathing their shoulders in the night air Kisses on the lawn

The children are walking back from the beach Sun on the sidewalk is burning their feet Washing the salt off under the shower And just wasting away wasting away

A red scarf that she wore a rinse in her hair A blister an undersized shoe her name on a tag That can't be washed off a place at a table for two I think she wor

No foreign pair of dark sunglasses Will ever shield you from the light That pierces your eyelids the screaming Of the gullsFeeding off the bodies Of the fish th

I knelt I aimed I missed I ran Across the fIeld where our love began The ears of the corn began to melt and swim My 2020 vision 95 dim I bowed my head to the we

I took a wrong turn off of an unmarked track I did seven miles I couldn't find my way back Hit a lonely stretch must be losing my touch I was out of my depth La

There's someone standing in the rain like they have no place to go Maybe that someone is you maybe someone you don't aim to know Maybe lost possessions Maybe st

Well the drums rolled off in my forehead And the guns went off in my chest Remember carrying the baby for you Crying in the wilderness I lost track of my friend