Stretch Out And Wait Lyrics - The World Won't Listen - The Smiths

On the high-rise estate 

What's at the back of your mind? 

On a three-day debate, on the high-rise estate 

What's at the back of your mind? 

Two icy cold hands conducting the way 

It's the Eskimo blood in my veins 

Amid concrete and clay and general decay 

Nature must still find a way 

So ignore all the codes of the day 

Let your juvenile impulses sway 

This way and that way and this way and that way 

God, how sex implores you to let yourself, lose yourself 

Stretch out and wait 

Stretch out and wait 

Let your puny body lie down, lie down 

As we lie, you say 

As we lie, you say 

Stretch out and 

Stretch out and wait 

Stretch out and wait 

Let your puny body lie down, lie down 

As we lie, you say 

Will the world end in the night time? 

I really don't know 

Or will the world end in the day time? 

I really don't know 

And is there any point ever having children? 

Oh, I don't know 

What I do know is we're here and it's now 

So, stretch out and wait 

Stretch out and wait 

There is no debate, no debate, no debate 

How can you consciously contemplate? 

When there's no debate, no debate 

Stretch out and wait 

Stretch out and wait 

Stretch out and wait 

Wait, wait, wait, wait