Automatic Blue - Thea Gilmore

Well the traffic says its morning

And the light that’s in your room

The radio is broken

So you hum a Springsteen tune

Oh you say you’ve not been sleeping

Cos your heart keeps you awake

And wonder how much longer

This fade out is gonna take

Well here are your best laid plans

There your ways and means

You laid them there right at her feet

Beside your truant dreams

Oh I know a little bar

Where they make bloody Mary’s strong

Let’s raise a toast to ragged ghosts

And loneliness and song

Amen amen

This one here’s for you

Cos love is either wild frontiers or automatic blue

Well here’s to wine and flowers

And a dance in Saint Marks square

Echo’s in Murano glass and perfume in her hair

Oh but February’s mist is thick

And the road ahead is hard

You thought you’d think of it forever

Now it only makes you tired

Amen amen

This one here’s for you

Cos love is either wild frontiers or automatic blue

Yeah love is either wild frontiers or automatic blue

The only time that you can see her

Is when you close your eyes

You put your phone back in the drawer

And straighten your disguise

Think of the colours of your children

And the songs you give wings to

The springs arrived and there’s the sky

It’s automatic blue

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