Sometimes (lester Piggott)

James

There's a storm outside

And the gap between crack and thunder

Crack and thunder

Is closing in

Is closing in



The rain floods gutters

And makes a great sound on concrete



On a flat roof, there's a boy

Leaning against a wall of rain

Aerial held high

Calling "Come on thunder,

Come on thunder!"



Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your soul

Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your soul



It's a monsoon!

And the rain lifts lids off cars

Spinning buses like toys

Stripping them to chrome

Across the bay, the waves are something else

Picking up fishing boats and spewing them on the shore



The boy's hit!

Lit up against the sky

Like a sign

Like a neon sign



Then he crumples

Drops into the gutter

Cut strings

Legs twitching



The flood swells his clothes

Delivers him on

Delivers him on



Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your soul

Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes I swear I can see your soul



There's four new colours in the rainbow

An old man's taking Polaroids

But all he catches

Is endless rain

Endless rain

Endless rain

Endless rain



He says, "Listen!"

Takes my head

Puts my ear to his

And I swear I can hear the sea



Sometimes (sometimes), I look in your eyes, I can see your soul

(I can reach your soul)

Sometimes (sometimes), I look in your eyes, I can see your soul

(I can touch your soul)

Sometimes, I look in your eyes, I can see your soul

(I can hear your soul)

Sometimes (sometimes), I look in your eyes, I can see your soul

Sometimes, I look in your eyes, I can see your soul (*4 to fade)