As if I Hadn't Slept

Idlewild · Scottish Fiction: Best of Idlewild 1997-2007 [2007]

It's always 3 AM in your world

So I'm drinking this as if I hadn't slept

Telling stories which tell their stories themselves

You didn't even hear them

Our thoughts are somewhere else



As long as I go somewhere

We'll still be trying to see

As long as I go somewhere

We'll still be trying

As long as I go somewhere

We'll still by lying to me

As long as I go somewhere



If you're so sure that you don't need love

Only this is if I hadn't slept

As laughter smiles back in your direction

But you're protected by the smoke from your cigarette



Then you tried

To hold my hand

Under the table

But it's far too vague

To be meaningful



As long as I go somewhere

We'll still be trying to see

As long as I go somewhere

Every lie has a hold over me

As long as I go somewhere

We'll still by lying to me

As long as I go somewhere



And you held me like I was a shadow

But completely without any mystery

And you compared me to a shadow

Which in itself is some kind of victory