Marbles Lyrics - Tindersticks

Her haircut, she looked pudgy and made-up 

In that dress growing ever tighter 

It was saddening the lengths she had gone to 

To appear more attractive 

In the process losing something 

We never knew but still missed 

You knew you were lost as soon as you saw her 

You saw your life as a series of complicated dance steps 

Impossible to learn, they had to come naturally 

Together you squirmed and wriggled 

And I could only jerk along behind 

[Chorus] 

They're going to hurt you 

They always will 

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She is now with me, inside of you 

And I could only stare wide-eyed 

As everything closed in around the three of us 

Things you never saw, talking of the power and rescue 

That were rushing through our body 

And it's good 

[Chorus] 

She opened the door his face bruised and swollen 

Before he knew, pushed, falling down curved stairs 

Our message lost and our plans forgotten 

Surrounded by men in suits, and black shiny shoes 

Moving in, kicking, stamping 

Bland expressionless faces 

A handful of marbles thrown in a dustbin 

Memories, memories 

[Chorus] 

Photos 

In a northern town there were amazing rows of standing stones arranged on the southern slope 

They got out in the last few seconds of consciousness 

Look for their inscriptions one day, the most distant ocean plains, those who make the desert island 

I saw you in a tin bath in red water 

Were the ones who went to Washington to do their laundry 

They wanted to see the mysterious hurricane 

I never believed in New York, or where you intended to stand 

But we don't actually want to see the shipwrecked 

I just had to go 

They came