Russian Dolls - Maxïmo Park

Electric cables

Beneath the Atlantic

There’s a radar

Beneath the black water

Rain flecks the paint

Inevitably

At the end of the telescope

By the pier

I know you’d rather I didn’t say

That I want to look after you

But I’d expect you to say the same

For me someday

This knowledge gives me no pleasure

You can’t kill yourself before you’re born

Particles like Russian dolls

Folding items ever smaller

Grey wire fences

Section off the wilderness

A lonely cluster of woodland stands apart

Like the fingers of a hand

Gently browning

Flat sections of cheap paint

Float by like butterflies

I know you’d rather I didn’t say

That I want to look after you

But I’d expect you to say the same

To me someday

My demeanour is made to measure

Nothing stirs beneath the farce of daily life

Particles like Russian dolls

Folding items ever smaller

If life never ended we’d have no urgency

Connect to boredom and repetition

Particles like Russian dolls

Folding items ever smaller

If life never ended we’d have no urgency

Connect to boredom and repetition