Fly Boy Blue/Lunette
Elbow

It's a lethal ballet
Air traffic congestion
I'm having a baby
Second thoughts
Scotch
Dinner and
Someone’s dancing on the box
A former MP and no one’s watching
My oldest friends are a serious habit
Fly boy blue
So bring your faces
Home to my sweet trampoline
And acres of crash site love

Presidential delays
Suppose I’m just lucky
l'm having a shindig
Me, Red Bob and The Ivory Host
And someone’s shouting on the box
A chinless prefect gone Godzilla
My newest friends have forgotten my name
But so have I so far so good and home
You and me trampoline
And oceans of crash site love

What can be said of the cigarettes smoked
A prop for a joke or a mark on the clock
If I stopped would the bus ever come
Would the dawn ever kiss me forgivingly knowing what’s done
Would the drivel make scribble, make sense and then song
Would the woodbines denied black another man’s lungs
Perverse as it may sound I sometimes believe
The tip to my lips just reminds me to breathe

What can be said of the whiskey and wine
Random abandon or ballast for joy
That was scuppered with trust
Little more than a boy
And besides I’m in excellent company
I’m reaching the age when decisions are made on the life and the liver
And I'm sure, last ditch that I'll ask for more time
But Mother forgive me
I still want a bottle of good Irish whiskey
And a bundle of smokes in my grave

But there isn’t words yet for the comfort I get
From the gentle lunette at the top of the nape of the neck that I wake to
And where are the words for the leap in my chest
When mischief appears either side of the scar on your nose
Made by a rose thorn
So you claim
By a rose thorn


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  A Regret   About Time [Acoustic Version]   An Audience with the Pope   An Audience with the Pope   An Imagined Affair   Any Day Now   Asleep in the Back [*]   Audience With The Pope   August and September   Beat for Two   Bitten by the Tailfly   Bones Of You   Brave New Shave   Brave New Shave [*]   Buffalo Ghosts   Buttons And Zips   Can't Stop   Cast of Thousands - The Film: Ribcage/Fallen Angel...   Charge   Colour Fields   Coming Second:   Crawling With Idiot   Dear Friends   Don't Mix Your Drinks   Every Bit the Little Girl   Fallen Angel   Fallen Angel [Multimedia Track]   Fly Boy Blue / Lunette   Flying Dream   Flying Dream 143   Forget Myself   Friend of Ours   Fugitive Motel   Fugitive Motel [Multimedia Track]   Gentle As   George Lassoes The Moon   Grace Under Pressure   Great Expectations   Grounds For Divorce   High Ideals   Honey Sun   Hotel Istanbul   I've Got Your Number   Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl   L'il pissed Charmin' Tune   Lay down your cross   Leaders Of The Free World   Lippy Kids   Little Beast   Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver   Long War Shuffle   Loss   Lost Worker Bee   Love Blown Down   Lucky With Disease   Lullaby   McGreggor   Mexican Standoff   Mirrorball   My Sad Captains   My Very Best   Neat Little Rows   Neat Little Rows (Single)   New York Morning   Newborn   None One   Not A Job   One Day Like This   One Thing That Was Bothering Me   Open Arms   Open Arms (Single)   Our Little Boat   Picky Bugger   Powder Blue   Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)   Puckfair   Puncture Repair   Real Life (Angel)   Red   Red [Acoustic Lamaco Session]   Roll Call   Running To Stand Still   Scattered Black And Whites   Snooks (Progress Report)   Snowball   Some Riot   Starlings   Station Approach   Stumble   Switching Off [Acoustic Version]   Switching Off [Album Version]   Teardrop   The Birds   The Birds (Reprise)   The Blanket Of Night   The Bones Of You   The Drunken Engineer   The Everthere   The Fix   The Good Day   The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver   The Night Will Always Win   The River   The Stops   The Take Off and Landing of Everything   Theme from Monroe Kelly (Noisebox)   This Blue World   Ticker Tape   Ticker Tape (B-Side)   Usually Bright   Waving From Windows   We're Away   Weather To Fly   Whisper Grass   Whisper Grass [*]   With Love   Wurzel

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