Thirteen Gliding Principles - The Delgados

Alun: If you care

Not to stare,

Light the light

But take the time.

I’ve been there,

I have stared

And I have seen

Things unseen.

Take it back.

Heart attack.

A setting sun

Where we’ve begun.

Where you fall

Children saw.

About your life,

Jesus wept.

Emma: Do you run

For your fun

Or do you slide

The underside?

Lock the door,

Wash the floors,

Shine the shine,

From indoors.

Did you choose

To amuse?

Did you leave a smile?

You hit the ground

Without a sound.

You planned it from the start.

Both: I don’t decide it,

I only abide by it.

Keep me beside you and I will confide.

Simply the sound of it

Carries me down with it.

Plain on the outside and colored inside.

Alun: Things we’ve said

When we’re dead.

Dragons fed

And unfed.

Take the car,

Drive it far,

Stay out.

Exiled years.

Forty fears.

No one came,

No one said,

About your life

About your wife.

It’s got to end.

It always ends.

Emma: Could you say

You haven’t paid?

Watch your words

As they’re relayed.

Falsify

What went by.

Glorify the same.

You’re twice the years,

Half the fears.

The middle man

Is not so clear.

You hit the ground

Without a sound.

You planned it from the start.

Both: I don’t decide it,

I only abide by it.

Keep me beside you and I will confide.

Simply the sound of it

Carries me down with it.

Plain on the outside

And colored on the inside.

Look what you’ve left me,

Your bottles of camomile,

Funny old phrases and out dated style.

At least I’ll be clean with it,

Sliding at ease with it.

First to the finish,

Last on the floor.