Why - Gemini (Birthday Song) Lyrics

Complimentary "Gemini (Birthday Song)" Ringtone

By Why?
From the album "Elephant Eyelash" 

it starts with you 
on a mattress in your parents' old room, 
clipping your toenails into the room 
like the room will fade 
and you will move 
onto other rooms 
and you will go 
to other places. 
then the wedding, 
then the woman passed out 
in the driver's seat 
at the order board at white castle. 
we woke her up and she went 
'round to the pick up window 
like she knew exactly where she was. 
then i wept 
with my face in your night shirt, 
trying hard as hell to say 
"until death seperates us," 
loosening the skin on your breast bone. 
i painted your nails 
and you sleep 
while i write all this down. 

there was a moth caught in the soapdish 
laminated in lye 
will you still remember me well 
if i don't get to two-o-o-five 
my dead line gemini. 

when we're on different sides of the globe 
i thought we'd keep our veins tangled 
like a pair of mic cables, 
and if there ain't enough slack to reach 
that we'd solder them together 
and across oceans they'd stretch. 
our faces reflected in seperate windshields 
and all our body hair pricked up 
an elephant eyelash. 
should we be tempted by thief or by saint 
it seems i leave you and you stay 
to crowd the cage and curse. 
but don't regret the done dirt, 
there is no life plan set, 
you just swallow the cold 
and follow your breath until death 
now even if the will to sleep persists 
i can't, 'cause a harsh cloth grazes my blisters. 

there was a moth caught in the soapdish 
laminated in lye 
will you still remember me well 
if i don't get to two-o-o-five 
my dead line gemini. 

today i fell asleep in a bath of hair. 
hair that once sprouted from my own 
white wet chalk follicles. 
i swallow a coal 
and follow my breath 
and i did it with the grapefruit soap 
thinking of you. 
bathed, shaved, and oiled, 
your legs are two skinny dolphins swimming 
between the mattress and the layers of bedding 
turning in your drug dry sleep. 
when i ask you to kiss my pulse 
you offer to start the shower. 
i want a verb and you give me a noun. 
what do you dream up while i tongue you down. 

there was a moth caught in the soapdish 
laminated in lye 
will you still remember me well 
if i don't get to two-o-o-five 
my dead line gemini. 

you know my build 
you know my size 
the degree to which my eyes 
are astigmatic.

Complimentary "Gemini (Birthday Song)" Ringtone

lyrics submitted by faten on 15-04-2006