Cigarette in the Rhododendron Lyrics

Everybody knew you

I was just your cross-hatched shadow

Just the mismatched shadow

Of a clock behind an orchid

Restored Film Noir in colour

Just to prove that we were strange

Your ex beat me in the car park

Until his friends dragged him a way

And you said

Where do we go from here?

I feel like swimming in the river

And I blacked out

And when you reappeared

I was ten years older

Everybody knew you

Worked weekends in the tea room

Shoplifted in the afternoons

Hid in the sunken garden

Reframed old pictures

All writing is re-writing

Car caught fire in the summer

It was something in the wiring

And you said

How do we get home from here?

I could walk into the sea and I blacked out

And when I reappeared

I was someone else

Everybody knew you

I was a habit they couldn't fathom

A cigarette in the rhododendron

Looking sorry for myself

And saying

Where do we go from here?

Coz I'm all out of good ideas