Play For Today Lyrics - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance - Belle And Sebastian

I read a play written today about a boy 

Who hides in attics when the sun is up 

Everyone is at work 

What will I do? Where will I go? 

Show me the way 

The truth, the anger, show me rules of thumb 

Show the way to grow old 

Love is a guide 

The endless river of the soul 

But we are mean 

The dried up riverbeds of rock and stone 

Lust is my friend 

She comes to me when I am tired 

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Life is a rope, death is a myth 

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood 

Work is a sentence, family's a drag 

This house is a trap 

I read a play written today about a girl 

She gets on perfectly with young and old 

Everybody loves her 

What would she wear? Cut off her hair? 

Wave as she slides 

Gracefully into the working week 

She hides her baggage inside 

She's got a friend 

An ugly monster that will eat your face 

She has to cry 

A heavy cat of wasted time 

She's got a friend 

A lonely monster that will prey on you 

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Life is a secret, death is a myth 

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood 

Work is a sentence, family's a drag 

This house is a trap 

Life is a secret, death is a myth 

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood 

Work is a sentence, family's a drag 

This house is a trap 

I read a play written today about a boy 

Tied in melancholy, takes the weight 

Takes the weight of the world 

I walked alone, loving a song 

Walking the earth 

The one-eyed sister who is twenty three 

Dried and wrinkled, alone 

I'll give you a month 

To see past shadows in your secret night 

I'll give you a week 

To look Medusa in the eye 

I'll give you a month 

To notice heaven in the sight of stage 

You'll keep inside of your head 

You're sitting on the floor 

You're pushing back the tide 

So lift the mountain up 

So tie writer's witness down 

Assemble all your troops 

Regards to all these metaphors 

And suddenly she says, and suddenly she says 

And away you too, and head for higher ground 

And not the king of me 

Take a chance and play for today 

And build the sets and light the scene 

A pretty air and we're upon the screen 

And build the sets and light the scene 

We'll break when we're on the sacred screen 

The backstage of your life 

Let's fill the glass and light to share the sun 

The backstage of your life 

Let's file the tables of the ones you love