This Mess We're In

PJ Harvey · Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea [2000]

Can you hear them?

The helicopters?

I'm in New York

No need for words now

We sit in silence

You look me

In the eye directly

You met me

I think it's Wednesday

The evening

The mess we're in and

The city sun sets over me



Night and day

I dream of

Making-love

To you now baby

Love-making

On-screen

Impossible dream

And I have seen

The sunrise

Over the river

The freeway

Reminding

Of this mess we're in and

The city sun sets over me



What were you wanting?

I just want to say

Don't ever change now baby

And thank you

I don't think we will meet again

And you must leave now

Before the sunrise

Above skyscrapers

The sin and

This mess we're in and

The city sun sets over me