The Delgados — Thirteen Gliding Principles lyrics

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I don’t decide it, I only abide by it Keep me beside you and I will confide
Simply the sound of it Carries me down with it Plain on the outside and coloured inside
Things we’ve said (could you say?)
When we’re dead (you haven’t paid)
Dragons fed (watch your words)
And unfed (as they relayed)
Take the car (falsify)
Drive it far (what went by)
Drive it far (glorify the same)
Stay out
Exiled years (you're twice the years)
Forty fears (half the fears)
No one came (the middle man)
No one stayed (is not so clear)
About your life (you hit the ground)
About your wife (without a sound)
It’s got to end (you planned it from the start)
I don’t decide it, I only abide by it Keep me beside you and I will confide
Simply the sound of him
Carries me down with him
Plain on the outside and coloured inside
Look what you’ve left me, your bottles of camomile
Funny old phrases and outdated style
At least I’ll be clean with it, sliding at ease with it First to the finish, last on the floor