Bloom

Lyrics

[Verse] It's not his fault he is an angel With a sailor's face And a nostalgic temperament He slouches towards grace He's philanthropic and a bore at the parties At the neighbours' next door They snicker at his tired old shoes And he befriends their pets and children And he knows all their rotten dirty news [Chorus] Now he only laughs when it's raining When the plashing of his tears is borrowed by the sky So he can be as happy as a long enough goodbye Oh [Verse] He had a lover once and then he had a wife She made him feel as if he had been born It was too late to leave the day she smiled She buttoned him inside his fragile shell Well, anyway, she's gone - it's just as well [Chorus] Now he only laughs when it's raining Water falling down When the plashing of his tears is borrowed by the sky So he can be as happy as a long enough goodbye [Bridge] And when she wore that shirt that hung a smell inside her hair The sky was grey and now it's green The sunset red and now it is not there and why I couldn't say why Seize the day High Everything I couldn't say I couldn't say why [Chorus] Now he only laughs when it's raining When the plashing of his tears is borrowed by the sky, by the sky So he can be as happy as a long enough goodbye As a long enough goodbye Oh Oh Oh