I'm Going To Brandish The Midday Heat Lyrics

He went out alone to where suburbia ends

Sold his possessions for a sleeping bag

Ditched his car on a dead end street

Told his few friends he would be back in a week

He felt the cold, that first night

Smoked his last cigarette at first light

Ate tuna from a tin

He started whistling, he started to sing

He sang: "Why should I go back? When I have nothing more to sell

In this world of goods and services

I am an empty shell

Because I have nothing more to sell"

He called up a girl who said she understood

That he could not do what the other men could

She laughed at his stories, she did not hang up

She located the phone box he was calling from

They ate well

They drank wine

She had money, he had time

She was restless, he had a plan

They would buy a cheap caravan

Yes, they would buy a cheap caravan

She said: "The world doesn't understand me, & I don't think it ever will

So take me to the wilderness, let's run to the hills

C'mon, let's run to the hills

One step together, they made the caravan their home

Two steps together, they were happy to be on their own

(Three steps) They lived behind a billboard on a busy highway

(Four steps) They got running water from a nearby drain

(Five steps) At night they got drunk and he sang her Raglan Road

(Six steps) She felt he knew her spirit like no one else had known

He said, I am not a praying person

But please help me to be well

I do not want to frighten her

She is my Sunday girl

Yes, she is my Sunday girl

(guitar solo instrumental)

Don't you hear them now? Listen

Why won't these voices leave me alone

I can't tune them out, just listen

They say I'm taking you down the wrong road

They say you are starting to think about moving on

And you just can't take my carrying on

They say my sparks are causing you pain

And that things will be so much better when I'm out of the way

We all need time out

But listen, I know you're not like everyone else

You don't need to shout

But listen, don't be afraid to say you need help

I come from a home that is very quiet

Where you can hear every footfall and every clock strike

Sometimes I tire of your manic way

But I need the colours you bring to every dull day

Yes, I need the colours you bring to every dull day

When the sun had sunk she knew he did not sleep

He built them a platform high up in the trees

They were not on the map

And she told herself, they would never go back

When money got spare, they went into town

Some windows were open, stuff was lying around

It didn't make her feel too good

He was ecstatic, they were just like Robin Hood

He said nothing feels real to me

We have found a new way to live

We are soaring above the details

We are spirits in an upward shift

I can talk to all the truck drivers just using my mind

I can tune into the atmosphere, I can tear through the time

That police siren getting louder? I can change that too

Do you want me to switch the channel?

There's nothing that I can't do

He said nothing feels real to me

We have found a new way to live

We are soaring above the details

We are spirits in an upward shift

The ambulance is here, you need to do what they say

If it wasn't for my call, the cops would have taken you away

If you hadn't of stolen that car and trashed that family's house

I wouldn't have called the CAT squad, now you've got to help me out

He said, nothing feels real to me

We have found a new way to live

We am soaring above the details

We are spirits in an upward shift

Now he's sleeping, I lie awake

He has had more than he can take

But he says he's been betrayed

And that I am the Judas who turned him in

They gave him drugs to slow him down

And the voices don't taunt him now

But he's not happy, he's not sad, & although he's not numb to my love it's just not the same

But I know what it is to feel alive

I know what it is to feel alive … alive

I have been chastised, I'm not free

you brought the best and worst out of me

When I burn, I can't be calm

And no, I do not know how to dampen my fire alarm

You are the only one who has seen

Some kind of aura around me

We were heading somewhere

But now we have dropped an anchor in a sea of nowhere

But I know what it is to feel alive

I know what it is to feel alive

Oh, my love I need to wake from all this dark medicine

I never meant to be so reckless but I must stand up again

Oh, my love we must be careful because it's on you I've come to depend

Hold my hand, we must be patient, I don't want our story to end

Oh my love, I feel my spirit stir when you talk to me this way

Our road together will be righteous, no pills to keep my demons at bay

Our road together will be righteous, no pills to keep my demons at bay

He said: "I'm going to pick up the fall in my feet

I'm going to brandish the midday heat."