The Delgados - Thirteen Gliding Principles (1996) lyrics

If you care (do you run?) Not to stare (for your fun) Light the light (or do you slide?) Take the time (the underside) I've been there (lock the door) I have stared (wax the floor) And I have seen (shine the shine) Things unseen (from indoors) Take it back (did you choose?) Heart attack (to amuse) A setting sun (did you leave a smile?) What we've begun Where you fall (you hit the ground) Children saw (without a sound) About your life (you planned it from the start) Jesus wept I don't decide it, I only abide by it Keep me beside you and I will confide Simply the sound of it Carries me down with it Plain on the outside and coloured inside Things we've said (could you say?) When we're dead (you haven't paid) Dragons fed (watch your words) And unfed (as they relayed) Take the car (falsify) Drive it far (what went by) Drive it far (glorify the same) Stay out Exiled years (you're twice the years) Forty fears (half the fears) No one came (the middle man) No one stayed (is not so clear) About your life (you hit the ground) About your wife (without a sound) It's got to end (you planned it from the start) I don't decide it, I only abide by it Keep me beside you and I will confide Simply the sound of him Carries me down with him Plain on the outside and coloured inside Look what you've left me, your bottles of camomile Funny old phrases and outdated style At least I'll be clean with it, sliding at ease with it First to the finish, last on the floor