Belle & Sebastian - Sleep the clock around

And the ^Emoment will come when composure returns Put a ^Bface on the world, turn your back to the wall And you ^C#mwalk twenty yards with your head in the air Down the ^ALiberty Hill, where the fashion brigade Look with ^Ecurious eyes on your raggedy way And for ^Bonce in your life you've got nothing to say And could ^C#mthis be the time when somebody will come To say, &^Aquot;Look at yourself, you're not much use to anyone"

Take a ^Ewalk in the park, take a valium pill Read the ^Bletter you got from the memory girl But it ^C#mtakes more than this to make sense of the day Yeah, it ^Atakes more than milk to get rid of the taste And you ^Etrusted to this, and you trusted to that And when you ^Bsaw it all come, it was waving the flag Of the ^C#mUnited States of Calamity, hey! After ^Aall that you've done, boy, I know you're going to pay

In the ^Emorning you come to the ladies salon To get ^Ball fitted out for The Paperback Throne But the ^C#mpeople are living far away from the place Where you ^Awanted to help, it's a bit of a waste And the ^Epuzzle will last until somebody will say "There^B's a lot to be done while your head is still young" If you ^C#mput down your pen, leave your worries behind Then the ^Amoment will come, and the memory will shine

Now the ^Etrouble is over, everybody got paid Every^Bbody is happy, they are glad that they came Then you ^C#mgo to the place where you've finally found You can ^Alook at yourself, sleep the clock around