Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave Lyrics - The Magnetic Fields

You held me upside-down 

Till I couldn't breathe anymore 

Then you held me like a baby 

Television, like wine and cigarettes 

Like grains of sand and raspberry schnapps 

Like a thousand sunsets 

The boys talk like they own the world 

The women keep their stupid diaries 

But suddenly there's a tidal wave 

And everything is sucked out to sea 

There were probably birds 

Outside our little room 

I don't remember anything but you 

We must have been the butt 

Of all the jokes in the world 

For trying to live like Pippi Longstocking 

The boys talk like they own the world 

The women keep their stupid diaries 

But suddenly there's a tidal wave 

And everything is sucked out to sea