Another Sunny Day

Another sunny day, I met you out in the garden

You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon

How I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border

It broke the heart of men and flowers, and girls and trees

Another rainy day, we're trapped inside with the train set

Chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met

You got the attic window looking out on the cathedral

And on a Sunday, evening bells ring out in the dusk

Another day in June, we'll pick eleven for football

(Pick eleven for football)

We're playing for our lives, the referee gives us fuck all

(Referee giving us fuck all)

I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines

You dark mascara bids me to historical deeds

Now everybody's gone, you picked me up for a long drive

(Picked me up for a long drive)

We took that tourist route, the night's alight until midnight

(Light until midnight)

We took the evening ferry over to the peninsula

We found the avenue of trees, went up to the hill

That crazy avenue of trees, I'm living there still

There's something in my eye, a little midge so beguiling

It sacrificed his life to bring us both eye to eye

I heard the Eskimos remove obstructions with tongues, dear

You missed my eye, I wonder why, I didn't complain

You missed my eye, I wonder why, please do it again

The loving is a mess, what happened to all of the feeling?

(All of the feeling)

I thought it was for real, babies, rings and fools kneeling

(Babies, rings and fools kneeling)

And words of pledging trust and lifetimes stretching forever

So what went wrong, it was a lie, it crumbled apart

Ghost figures of past, present, future haunting the heart