Slow Graffiti

Belle And Sebastian

There's a portrait


In a back room,


Which I keep for days upon, which I relent


And gaze for hours on the muscle skin and bone of some


Imaginary friend.





So how about it?


Show me please how I will look in twenty years


And let me please,


Interpret history in every line and scar that's painted


There in front of me.





It doesn't matter what I'm thinking


What I tell myself to do


I'll end up calling.





I stay in to defrost the fridge


Now the kid has gone to bed


A feeling of dread.


At least when she's around the troubles there,


It's worse to wake up with her falling round the room.





Listen Johnny; you're like a mother


To the girl you've fallen for,


And you're still falling.





Listen Johnny;


You're like a mother to the girl you've fallen for,


And you're still falling,


And if they come tonight


You'll roll up tight and take whatever's coming to you next.