Her haircut, she looked what she'd made her
   In that dress growing ever tighter
   It was saddening the lengths she had gone to
   To appear more attractive
   In the process losing something
   We never knew but still missed
   You knew you were lost as soon as you saw her
   You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps
   Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally
   Together you squirmed and wriggled
   And I could only jerk along behind
   Chorus:
   They're going to hurt you
   They always will
   She is now with me, inside of you
   And I could only stare wide-eyed
   As everything closed in around the three of us
   Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue
   That were rushing through our body
   And it's good
   Chorus
   She opened the door his face bruised and swollen
   Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs
   Our message lost and our plans forgotten
   Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes
   Moving in, kicking, stamping
   Bland expressionless faces
   A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin
   Memories, memories (??)
   Chorus
   In a northern town there were amazing rows of standing stones arranged on the southern slope
   They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness
   Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who make the desert island
   I saw you in a tin bath in red water
   Were the ones who went to Washington to do their laundry
   They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane
   I never believed in New York, or where you intended to stand
   But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked
   I just had to go
   They came