Deloris - Gasolight lyrics

She felt faster on the water Safe in her carriage of rubber Inside her chariot of chrome Her horse powered home Her floating throne She's a tailored canvas to the sky's Backdrop of hand held lights That's guided her way thus far Unhitching her dream from her car Taking off on a rippling Oval of wet stars The salty gasoline in her hair She gets the smell for which she waits all year These days it takes up all her time She gets wrinkles from the light Fighting for space under her eyes Alert her to danger Twitch when there's strangers And more specifically they make her feel Safer This new horizon line Playing havoc with her eyes Playing havoc with her time When she could be on the seas With the throttle at her feet Sungla**es on her mind Sunshine on her knees Going down again Going down again The horizon is closing out Reflecting just enough to make us out As we throw ourselves across the wake A small fraction of time repeated every day It must be heartbreaking To curl yourself around the sails And all you can see for miles Is a sea of broken fingernails You want to commandeer a crew You want X to mark the spot Of something new for a change If we were smart we would've stayed the same We would have got these drownings framed She won't take it anymore Rips the plug from the wall Sends the console crashing to the floor Takes the lift to the street Slaps her flippers on the wet concrete And now there's nothing in between What she's learnt and why she's here Except for a billion liquid litres And the silhouette of the pier