Mona Lisa

The heaving city streets are packed with people

Full of ideas and mumbling frustration

In a hundred years to come

They'll all be gone

While a hidden wind makes a pattern in the corn field

Flattens the grass like blowing on a deer skin

The world is breathing

The world is moving

And it's hard for me to contemplate the end

Especially when

The Sun's still warm upon your face late in the night...

And somewhere in the morning there's a woman there who's calling me

She's telling me that love is just a gentle play of light...

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

I pour some wine to cheer us

Erase the line between us

I merge into the canvass through the artist

Who with her brushes will preserve us

The blood in my veins

The way your face flushes

Mona Lisa

Underneath the concrete lies a rolling hill

Whaddya know! Our Empire's just a surface layer

You could peel it away

Like wrapping paper

But saying that I love some of those buildings

In Somerset House the children play in fountains

They see diamonds

We see water

And it's hard for me to contemplate the end

Especially when

The Sun's still warm upon your face late in the night...

And somewhere in the morning there's a woman there who's calling me

She's telling me that love is just a gentle play of light...

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

I pour some wine to cheer us

Erase the line between us

I merge into the canvass through the artist

Who with her brushes will preserve us

The blood in my veins

The way your face flushes

Together forever

Me and Mona Lisa

We're Just Passing Through

Was that a kiss or just some cruel Darwinian process?
Said the trembling boy to the girl in the six foot dress
Is it me that weak antelope at the back of the back?
The eyes of a lion burning my neck
I stood out from the crowd
What a dumb thing to do
When you’re just passing through

You make me laugh she said I can read men like a book
You’re so quick to condemn while you let yourself off the hook
There’s no crime and there’s no punishment
Just reading to much into it
If you ask me Dostoyevsky was an idiot too
He was just passing through

(chorus)

And like so many things that make a noise
A bell that rings or plastic toys
In time, you'll find, they’re hollow
I know I talk too much
But I still say to you
Wake up from your sleepwalk you talk too much too
We’re just passing through

I guess I’m writing this because I lost the argument
All last night, try as I might, I never said what I meant
You made your point, well done, now what’s your point?
How many words can we throw at this because
Soon there’ll be no fat left for the two of us to chew
We were just passing through

(chorus)

And like so many things that make a noise
A bell that rings or plastic toys
In time, you'll find, they’re hollow
I know I talk too much
But I still say to you
Wake up from your sleepwalk you talk too much too
We’re just passing through

I dreamed last night I was alone at the railway station
When all of a sudden my friends burst on to the platform
We laughed and embraced, with tears on my face
I talked of regret for the times that I let slip me by
Ha! I get to know you just when the last train is due
I was just passing through

The fading sun shone on the passing fields
I was thinking about my childhood and how it all feels
I remember our first cigarette
The spark when the match hit the box
I lit yours and talked about love
I held the flickering flame to your face and you blew!
We went out that night
But we burned so bright
Live your life well girl we’re all just passing through

(chorus)

And like so many things that make a noise
A bell that rings or plastic toys
In time, you'll find, they’re hollow
I know I talk too much
But I still say to you
Wake up from your sleepwalk you talk too much too
We’re just passing through