Sleep The Clock Around

Belle And Sebastian

And the moment will come when composure returns

put a face on the world put your back to the wall

and you walk twenty yards with your head in the air

down liberty hill where the fashion brigade

look with curious eyes at your raggedy ways

and for once in your life you have nothing to say

and could this be the time when somebody will come

to say look at yourselfyour not much use to anyone.


Take a walk in the park take a valium pill

read the letter you got from the memory girl

but it takes more than this to make sense of the day

yeah it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste

and you trusted to this and you trusted to that

when you saw it all come you were waving the flag

of the united states of calamity hey

after all that you done boy and now your gonna pay.


In the morning you come to the ladies salon

to get all fitted out for the paper back throne

but the people are living far away from the place

where you wanted to help your a bit of a waste

and the puzzle will laste till somebody will say

"there's a lot to be done while your head is still young"

If you put down your head leave your worries behind

then the moment wil come and the memory will shine.


Now the trouble is over everybody got paid

Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came

Then you go to the place where you've finally found

you can look at yourself sleep the clock around.