Ripeness

Echo And The Bunnymen · Porcupine [1983]

I found a thing in a bedroom

Change the shape of the world for long enough

Got the boat 'til as far as I could

Afford it to take me, it was far enough



Mature you said at the wrong time

Broke my aging skin 'cause age was mine

Had a field day, smelt like roses

Harvesting my thoughts 'cause it was time



When you grasped the question

Did you miss the meaning?

When you met your challenge

Did you go out fighting?



We will discover

Ripeness twice over



Sing your song, worth its weight

In God gold, curse its fate



When you grasped the question

Did you miss the meaning?

When you met your challenge

Did you go out fighting?



How will we recover

Ripeness when it's over?



I lost something in a big room

Change the shape of the world for long enough



When you grasped the question

Did you miss the meaning?

When you met your challenge

Did you go out fighting?



When you climbed on top

Did you fall on shadows?

And clambering off

Did you fall on rainbows?



How will we recover

Ripeness when it's over?



Neither kinder nor the kinder

(How will we recover?)

Are you fuel for the fire?

(Ripeness when it's over)



Neither [Incomprehensible] nor the over

(How will we recover?)

Must have others to inspire

(Ripeness when it's over)



I've discovered my Nietzsche

I've discovered my Nietzsche



Death should be unleashed or something

(How will we recover?)

(Ripeness when it's over)

Do tell me what's the difference?

(How will we recover?)



Do tell me what's the difference?

(Ripeness when it's over)