Life is Elsewhere

Lyrics

In a generic chain hotel room, all dressed up like a bridegroom Doing crosswords torn from cafe copies of The Times Sixteen down: 'verbose invective', Oxford Dictionary's defective Nothing fits, nothing works, nothing's right They call me Mr Saturday Night So four across says it's a synonym for lost, 'misplaced' When staying home is saving face From the eyes of friends and strangers You've been meaning to avoid It took me years 'til I could see that there's no us, no them, just we Now this third person makes me feel like royalty Tonight we're here alone, 'cos we're just me I get the feel life is elsewhere tonight So here we sit alone again, East Berlin winter's kicking in Hot coffee in my hands and all these questions in my heart Self-improvement's just a compound verb To drag ourselves above the herd Of ragged average shadows on the streets Who mutter as they shuffle to the beat of city madness that - I get the feeling life is elsewhere tonight Beneath these twitching neon signs we carve new Mason-Dixon lines across our minds I get the feeling life is elsewhere tonight For all the pulses in the park who sit around, wait for the darkness to subside Conclusion's drawing nearer, 'three words - novel by Kundera They must be psychic, must be nuts, must be reading my bloody mind Four storeys down and one to go I head out 'neath the falling snow To join the other strangers in the night Isolated but together, we'll be right, we'll be fine... Sunday morning, 4 a.m., room trapped in the window pane And the lamplight ushers in distorted doubles of a nocturne scene Sunday morning 4 a.m., room trapped in the window pane And the lamplight ushers in distorted doubles of a nocturne scene Sunday morning 4 a.m., room trapped in the window pane Teapot squat on the sill contains lukewarm dregs of the night's remains