Running Down the Clock

from Illegal Songs by John Parkes

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Occasionally you’ll meet one of those self-destructive people and there’s nothing you can do...

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Running Down the Clock

I love her when she’s got good skin
I love her when she’s clean
I love her when she’s not been in

Pleading, taking, tripping, falling down
Crashing, wasting, smoking, burning down

She’s running down the clock, climbing up the rain
Looking for a cloud to take her weight
And when her weight goes down
And she starts coming round, I find her

Fingers, scratching, down the window pane
Falling, freezing, crying like the rain

And she’s got zero taste in men
Like all the girls I’ve known
I loved her ‘cause she’s got no sense

Pleading, taking, tripping, falling down
Crashing, wasting, smoking, burning down

She’s running down the clock, climbing up the rain
Looking for a cloud to take her weight
And when her weight goes down
And she starts coming round, I find her

Fingers, scratching, down the window pane
Falling, freezing, crying like the rain
The feral children, left with wolves again

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from Illegal Songs, released January 14, 2008
John Parkes

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