I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know (2020 Remaster)

First and foremost, oh, let it be said

I am writing this at 7:10 am

On the hard dry tarmac of a vacant forecourt

Astronomically speaking, it's the first day of autumn

But the sun is hanging 'round like summer's hungover

They'll knock the garage down and build flats where I sit

The traffic's so persistent that it barely registers

And it smells like a mix between petrol and dog shit

Just let me be the one that

Keeps track of the moles on your back

I just sighed, the universe replied

"Let this pass you by"

Sometimes it's just enough to know

I keep him on his toes

Is he as sympathetic as me to the untimely demise

Of your synthetic clothes?

I've displayed marriage proposals on the Jumbotrons

Of ballgames you've not been at

I've written eulogies in guestbooks of galleries

In the hope that you might pass

Just let me be the one that

Keeps track of the moles on your back

I just sighed, the universe replied

"Let this pass you by"

She, nervous and barefoot, chats to me at the front door

He, boyfriend, inside's a saint, becoming a martyr

Me rolling, writhing on the floor

Stared daggers pulled from my thoracic wall

When I hold sea shells to my ears

I'm pretty sure I can hear you

He gave a gift of the Faber Book of Love Poems

Annotated the ones he thought applied the most

Not gonna win you 'round with prose

If anyone should know, then it's I should know (Oh-oh)

Girl, there must be a reason you let it slip

Went to the point of sending the message

Six months of visceral Catherine Wheels

Kissing carnivores to make it seem like less of a deal

Just let me be the one that

Keeps track of the moles on your back

I just sighed, the universe replied

"Let this pass you by"

I promise, after this, I will pick up the phone book

And choose the name that my eyes fall upon on their first look