Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? (2011 Remaster)

I remember a girl so very well

The carnival drums all mad in the air

Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell

Oh, where do we go now but nowhere?

In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun

And then we fucked it down again

Well, the sun comes up and the sun goes down

Going 'round and around to nowhere

The kitten that padded and purred on my lap

Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear

I turn the other cheek and you lay into that

Oh, where do we go now but nowhere?

Oh, wake up, my love

My lover, wake up

Oh, wake up, my love

My lover, wake up

Across clinical benches with nothing to talk

Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer

While the bones of our child crumble like chalk

Oh, where do we go now but nowhere?

I remember a girl so bold and so bright

Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare

Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light

Oh, where do we go now but nowhere?

You come for me now with a cake that you've made

Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair

Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades

Oh, where do we go now but nowhere?

Oh, wake up, my love

My lover, wake up

Oh, wake up, my love

My lover, make up

If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home

From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air

Behind the locked gates, an old donkey moans

Where do we go now but nowhere?

Around the duck pond, we grimly mope

Gloomily and mournfully we go 'round again

And one more doomed time and without much hope

Going 'round and around to nowhere

From the balcony, we watched the carnival band

The crack of the drum, a little child did scare

I can still feel his fingers pressed in my hand

Oh, where do we go now but nowhere?

If I could relive one day of my life

If I could relive just a single one

You on the balcony, my future wife

Oh, who could have known but no one?

Oh, wake up, my love

My lover, wake up

Wake up, my love

My lover, wake up

Oh, wake up, my love

My lover, wake up

Oh, wake up, my love

My lover, wake up