MUBARE · ARCHIVE

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you grab the phone / you dial the number / there’s no-one home / no reply / you feel so broken / you just crawl under / no other day / and no other night / you’ve left your man / and you have left your home babe / you have learned to love and you have learned to cry / you have roamed a lot now / you start to wonder / where are all these so-called lovers / all these reasons why / no man was like the other / yet so alike / you found no friend and brothers / you went on strike / love-life on television until the late-night-show / you hear sounds on the floor / there is a man at the door / it’s me / you leave the house and you pace the sidewalk / you start to move and you start to run / you hurry home and you pull the curtain / you wait for something that doesn’t come / you read the paper you watch your cat move / you get a drink and another smoke / you fix some dinner you hear the phone ring / you pick it up but there’s no-one on / no man was like the other / yet so alike / you found no friends and brothers / you went on strike / love-life on television until the late-night-show / you hear sounds on the floor / there is a man at the door / it’s me / we were two kites in climbing and played it up / we had no sense of timing and never enough / one day meant nothing to us / until the late night call / and then sound on the floor and a man at the door / me ...