Nobody's Empire Lyrics - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance - Belle And Sebastian

Lying on my bed, I was reading French 

With the light too bright for my senses 

From this hiding place life was way too much 

It was loud and rough round the edges 

So I faced the wall when an old man called 

Out of dreams that I would die there 

But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings 

You had a different idea 

I was like a child, I was light as straw 

And my father lifted me up there 

Took me to a place where they checked my body 

My soul was floating in thin air 

I clung to the bed and I clung to the past 

I clung to the welcome darkness 

But at the end of the night there's a green green light 

It's the quiet before the madness 

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There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell 

And she put out her arm, she touched me when I was in hell 

When I was in hell 

Someone sang a song and I sang along 

Cause I knew the words from my childhood 

Intellect, ambition they fell away 

And they locked me up for my own good 

But I didn't mind, cause the silence was kind 

It spoke to me in whispers 

There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn 

And the quiet hum of business 

Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room 

I don't need to go, I don't need to know what you're doing 

Know what you're doing 

Lying on my side you were half awake 

And your face was tired and crumpled 

If I had a camera I'd snap you now 

Cause there's beauty in every stumble 

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We are out of practice we're out of sight 

On the edge of nobody's empire 

And if we live by books and we live by hope 

Does that make us targets for gunfire? 

Now I look at you, you're a mother of two 

You're a quiet revolution 

Marching with the crowd, singing dirty and loud 

For the people's emancipation 

Did I do okay, did I pave the way? 

Was I strong when you were wanting? 

I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke 

Who was stern but never daunting 

And he told me to push and he made me feel well 

He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying 

Oh to the dying