Sobriety breeds sincerity And Lydia Pond she is my gravity I don't know how she felt when she took that E But in the morning she was shaking, she was twitching, she was jerking On June the 5th she moved to Paris She could not stand the state of British politics And I just can't convince her that I'm socialist And every night I pray for mail in the morning [02:30.35 [02:36.56 [02:42.51 [02:48.16 [03:17.66 [03:24.03 [03:30.40 [03:36.59 Oh she promised me that we'd be creasing sheets And that our bodies would be bruising, wrestling underneath And I wanted to ask her how she cut her teeth And why she let time slip through her skinny, skinny fingers