Los Campesinos - The sea is a good place to think of the future

^AmI grabbed hold of her wrist and my hand closed from tip to tip ^CI said “you’ve taken the diet too far, you have got to let it slip” ^AmBut she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again, ^Cshe’s not eating again, she’s not eating again. ^AmI ask her to speak French and then I need her to translate, ^CI get the feeling she makes the meaning more significant. ^AmShe was always far too pretty for me to believe in a single ^Cword she said, believe a word she said.

^AmAt fourteen her mother died in a routine operation, ^Cfrom allergic reaction to a general anesthetic. ^AmShe spent the rest of her teens experimenting with prescriptions, ^Cin a futile attempt to know more than the doctors. ^AmShe said one day to leave her, sand up to her ^Cshoulders waiting for the tide ^Amto drag her to the ocean, to another sea’s shore. ^CThis thing hurts like hell, ^Ambut what did you expect?

^AmAnd all you can hear is the ^Csound of your own heart ^AmAnd all you can feel is your ^Clungs flood and the blood course ^AmBut oh I can see five ^Chundred years dead set ahead of me ^AmFive hundred behind, ^CA thousand years in perfect symmetry

^AmBest known left wrist right finger, through all the Southern States, on ^Cevery video games machine they call her triple A. ^AmThere were racists on the radio trying to give up smoking, ^Cthe chat show host, he joked “you have to wait for the government program”. ^AmYou talk about your politics, and I wonder if you could be one of them, but ^Cyou could never kiss a Tory boy without wanting to cut off your tongue again. ^AmA good place to look to the future is when you are sat at the sea, with the ^Csalt up to your ankles and a view of the end of the pier, you may ^Amlook down at your model’s feet and wish that you’d just float away, and the ^Cweather here is overcast and the sea is the same shade of grey, so the ^Amlandscape before you looks just like the edge of the world, but to the ^Cleft side and the right side, either way is a crazy golf course. ^AmThe sea is a good place to ^Cthink of the future.

^AmAnd all you can hear is the ^Csound of your own heart ^AmAnd all you can feel is your ^Clungs flood and the blood course But ^Amoh I can see five hundred years ^Cdead set ahead of me ^AmFive hundred behind, ^CA thousand years in perfect symmetry ^AmA thousand years no getting rid of me ^CA thousand years in perfect symmetry.