Yacht Dance

XTC · Coat Of Many Cupboards [2002]

We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails

Upon the tops of the seas

That, that would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat

If given half a chance



No need to look back to pictures of lost, when all was rust

We, we will skim across the surface of the mud

As if we're spinning pebbles



In our yacht dance

In our yacht dance



We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails

Upon the tops of the seas

Made, made of people stained with scorn

Who never see the light of real love



No need to look back through diaries of lost now turned to dust

We, we will skate across the surface of the storm

As if we're wheeling sea-birds



In our yacht dance

In our yacht dance



And how they'll be jealous of both of us

In our yacht dance



We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails

Upon the tops of the seas

Made of people stained with scorn who never see the light of real love



In our yacht dance

In our yacht dance