Alt-J - Story 4: Sleeplessly Embracing (a remix by clipping.) lyrics

[Verse 1] Needles underfoot as he stumbles out to the dock Big toe feeling it through the hole in his sock Car keys dangling absently from the lock Of the Buick Regal parked to the side of the road block Celly on the center console continued buzzing Name on the screen Katrina parenthesis baby cousin Dissolve Me on the speakers is playing into the nothing He fixes his hair for no one his steady pace never rushing Faded blue polo shirt missing a top bu*ton Khakis with a coffee stain ripping near where he cuff 'em Tongue on the roof of his cotton mouth is feeling rough Got a pocket full of stones and a cup full of Robitussin Too many stars to count and the moon is high up and blushing Water is the calmest the breeze in the pine is rustling And the piston in his temple relentless in how it's crushing Everything but the sound of her crying screaming and cussing The purple 'round her eye was deepening as he pleaded and backed away from the door (Sleeplessly embracing) Rage in a bottle want to throw it out to sea (Sleeplessly embracing) Never seen the ocean so this lake will have to do (Sleeplessly embracing) Pumping his brakes to the sound of the beat (Sleeplessly embracing) Leave the tarnished ring with a note inside of a shoe It's all f**ed up now [Verse 2] sh** (sh**), Katrina pushes send again Same thing, ring and right into the voice messaging Tick tick tick tick (tick tick tick tick) Left blinker clicks fast from the burnt out taillight Open toe on the gas Heater on her face to compensate for the chill Plastic on the pa**enger window thunders at will New tattoo on the neck is itching but "Dang that's ill" Is what Snake had said to her while she re-ing up on her pills Pop a couple now while she driving around the woods Knew from the beginning that marriage would be no good Told him not to fall for the first available hottie But she knew he would, she knew him better than anybody He'd always take the first, well technically the second If you count the time he slipped into her room when she was seven And he told her that he loved her and everything was okay That was just a week before they took her mother away She knows that he's poison but he was the only one who stayed when she needed it most (Sleeplessly embracing) Dress up like a princess and come out to the party (Sleeplessly embracing) Tired of the burning so this numb will have to do (Sleeplessly embracing) A little bit of dirt never hurt nobody (Sleeplessly embracing) Always protect the thing that you know is true It's all f**ed up now [Verse 3] Shoes taken off and placed upon the bank Crickets in the distance are dissonant and he brakes He stop for just a minute reflecting on all the days The joy before he slipped back into his sinister ways How well could he justify every choice that he made How little control a little girl could ever take How little he cared in the moment if she would wake Hopefully she was so little she'd not remember the ache His toe is in the water it's ice, it's codeine It's dimming all the stars and it's muffling all the screams It's now up to his waist and he wading into the dream His pulse is racing causing the surface tension to steam The water at his chest his lungs fight and collapse The frogs see it best he thinks he starts to laugh The water at his eyelids now and he's 'bout to pa** out She could be rid of him now at last The note he left read, "please never tell her, love James" (Sleeplessly embracing) The ripples disappear and there's nothing left to show (Sleeplessly embracing) Never been concluded so the end will have to do (Sleeplessly embracing) High not low and away we go (Sleeplessly embracing) Tomorrow it'll all be a perfect shade of blue (Sleeplessly embracing) It's all f**ed up now [x4]