These Days - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

You don’t need a lover in this climate

You don’t need a boyfriend in your bed

These days

Pull a blanket round you, baby

If you’re looking for an early grave

Mr Anderton will lead you to it

He says

Pull a blanket round you, baby

Some have said

I’d go now rather than wait

Just to sit and watch my days slip away

So surely

You don’t need a lover in this climate

You don’t need a boyfriend in your bed

These days

Pull a blanket round you, babe

Jesus said

Jesus said to Mary

Lord, the things we do for love

Well, do think I seem self conscious

It’s only you I’m thinking of

Well I was hiding in the bathroom

Quite unable to cry

Now I’m weeping with a vengeance

Since your voice came down the line

I moved up from the country

Though I never could have stayed

I just dipped my hand in the water

And got carried away

Well would you put me down

Just for being around

At the wrong time of day?

Or would you leave me while I’m sleeping

Out through the fire escape?

They tell me swans do fly

Across a perfect sky

And it’s a purist’s sky tonight

So you’ll desert me in the morning

On account of your cruelty and spite

I moved up from the country

To wave goodbye to all that

I just leapt up on that riverboat

And I never will look back

Jesus said to Mary

Lord, the things we do for love

Well, did she think he was self conscious

It was only her he was thinking of

Well I was hiding in the bathroom

Quite unable to cry

Now I’m weeping with a vengeance

But these are tears of joy, oh my

I moved up from the country

Though I never could have stayed

I just dipped my hand in the water

And got carried away