Erasure - Swordplay

I spend time with time spinning around me

And only recently have I come to see

Where you are treading water

The panic is so real to the point you cannot breathe

You are drowning quick

Your hands are tied

They’re out of my reach

Back home

You listened and learned

You were always older than your age

You poor precocious thing

Unhappy traveler, agitated and estranged

Tell me, what would ya blame, and is your mind okay?

It’s time to remove that pain so you do not remember

Do not remember.

Do not remember.

Do not remember

Every time I think of you on that day

I bow my head.

I begin to pray

I hope that you’re not watching now

Somehow, it all went wrong

I’m sorry to say

You would not remember

But when it happened, it happened to us all

And when comes time to transfer states say what you will

But your eyes are tired, your heart is flooding, your body’s still

Will you be waking up along a distant landscape and in a place you might stay?

Well then, drift away.

Drift away.

Just drift away

I’ll remember you by the look on the face that you made on the day that you

said farewell

Where you’re trapped inside your head

And do not remember that hell

Or those cops

That came in your apartment five days late

Does that not ring a bell?

You got your ticket and checked out quick

I bet you talked some shit to the Lord before you fell

I have no secrets

Give me yours to tell

Are you waiting on annihilation

And getting impatient cause it’s not going well?