Close But No Cigar Lyrics - Astronauts & Heretics - Thomas Dolby

You came close 

Close but no cigar 

You didn't miss by far 

You know you came this close 

Close but no cigar 

Some people sing love songs 

Everybody's got one 

This isn't my love song 

It's more like my love gone wrong song 

She came to breakfast 

And stayed a week 

But the lie detectors 

Broke down each time she tried to speak 

Broke down when she said 

"You came close 

Close but no cigar 

You didn't miss by far 

You know you came this close 

Close but no cigar 

No matter where you are 

You know you came this close 

Close but no cigar" 

I remember, I remember, I remember 

The promise in your eyes 

As black as the night I drove you to the airport 

And I remember, I remember, I remember 

The wide Brazilian sky that swallowed you 

Then I hit thirty 

Guess I can't complain 

But I must have been lonely 

The night I bumped into Lorraine 

She came for coffee 

And stayed all night 

But the lie detectors 

Broke down every time I tried to smile 

Broke down like the store of my life 

And each dream I missed by half a mile 

Broke down when I told her: 

"You came close 

close but no cigar 

You didn't miss by far 

You know you came this close 

close but no cigar 

No matter where you are 

You know you came so close 

Close but no cigar 

You didn't miss by far 

You know you came this close 

Close but no cigar 

We're better off by far 

But you know we came this close 

Close but no cigar