And there's no-one to say goodnight to And the simple English rain Just breaks her heart again
She looks at her hands And expects raindrops and pearls All for her love was had But she's the MTV girl Her parka's full of pictures of the Bay Bridge and you Just seeing it all through
Try to find a middle name Pay me in pennies after I'm broken She promises to make a last try So she listens to this song Like the rain on my footsteps She cycles to work, remembers where she had been And what they were supposed to mean there too then
The loneliness of her life is a spell that can't be broken The thin ice of her heart is still without a sever The caterpillar trail of ink and blood The paper-wristed soldiers who were lost in the flood The distance between him and you It's just seeing it all through
Look at you now, you're crying Look at you now, you're crying, girl Look at you now, you're crying Look at you now, you're crying, girl
She's the quick of the thick She thought she could say Of how it is to cry when there's no-one to see it And you don't even know if you will see him again Or if he's waiting there for me
Look at you now, you're crying Look at you now, you're crying, girl Look at you now, you're crying Look at you now, you're crying, girl