I See Seaweed

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I see seaweed on the lawn There's no point coming here no more Do you remember way back when? When weeks sank in the swimming pool Holidays were cotton wool Your bald tyre friends, the pelicans Cowboys and Indians Aw, admit it, she was kinda cute Her panties were your parachute But they found her near the airport In a crater, near the bend Where she and I'd walk by the zoo Not knowing we'd do what all plagues do I forget her all the time these days And be forgotten too [Refrain] We're lockstepping in our billions Lockstepping in our swarms Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born [Verse 2] I was fine but not the whole time, see I fiddled while Rome stewed, and lord It choked my heart, but spades is spades My head's here now to tell you [Refrain] We're lockstepping in our billions Lockstepping in our swarms Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born [Chorus] And ain't that just the way things are? Yeah, you always went too far And ain't that just the way things go? [Verse 3] Passports please, sir you are next Do you fly direct or indirect? As the years bleed off that answer's getting Harder to detect Like all the rare air on the cabin floor Your in-flight film's a score that should be settled Once the holster calcifies around your neck But now it's prefab bars, tax free cigars Stopovers in Bahrain And they put horse tranqs in the fuel tanks And the staff are all insane [Refrain] And we're lockstepping in our billions Lockstepping in our swarms Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born [Verse 4] I'm like a Lockheed in a thunderhead An Airbus in the sea The sky is blue, I am too Yet everything seems clear [Refrain] And we're lockstepping in our billions Lockstepping in our swarms Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born [Chorus] But ain't that just the way things are? Yeah, you always went too far But ain't that just the way things go? [Instrumental Break] [Verse 5] She'd recollect how fucked you were All matter of a fact And then defend you, being squeamish 'Bout the knife stuck in her back And lord, she only sang the dead Byrds' songs And now I know 'em all It's like I'm shooting at a shadow That a bomb burned on the wall [Refrain] And we're lockstepping in our billions Lockstepping in our swarms Lockstepping in the certainty that more need to be born [Verse 6] There ain't no making what you're breaking And nothing left of her to clone I can't remember how she looked, although I do recall her smile coming down the telephone [Chorus] But ain't that just the way things are? Yeah, you always went too far And ain't that just the way things go? Yeah, pretending you don't know [Instrumental Outro]