Released: September 30, 1985
Songwriter: Robert Wyatt
Producer: Chris Hughes
[Verse 1]
You look different every time
You come from the foam - crested brine
It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight
Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale
Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?
[Verse 2]
Joking apart, when you're drunk you're terrific
When you're drunk I like you mostly late at night - you're quite alright
But I can't understand the different you in the morning
When it's time to play at being human for a while
[Hook]
We smile
We smile
We smile
[Verse 3]
You'll be different in the spring
I know, you're a seasonal beast
Like the starfish that drift in with the tide, with the tide
So until your blood runs to meet the next full moon
Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own
We're not alone
You look different every time
You come from the foam - crested brine
It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight
Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale
Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?
[Verse 2]
Joking apart, when you're drunk you're terrific
When you're drunk I like you mostly late at night - you're quite alright
But I can't understand the different you in the morning
When it's time to play at being human for a while
[Hook]
We smile
We smile
We smile
[Verse 3]
You'll be different in the spring
I know, you're a seasonal beast
Like the starfish that drift in with the tide, with the tide
So until your blood runs to meet the next full moon
Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own
We're not alone
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- The Body Wah
- Sea Song
- My Life in the Suicide Ranks
- Empire Building
- Déjà Vu & The Sins of Science
- When in Love with a Blind Man
- Tears Roll Down
- Always in the Past
- The Way You Are
- New Star
- Ashes to Ashes
- Lord of Karma
- The Big Chair
- Schrodinger’s Cat
- Bloodletting Go
- Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Mix One)
- Songs from the Big Chair (1985)
- Saturnine Martial & Lunatic (1996)
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- Mad World
- Head Over Heels / Broken (Reprise)
- Shout
- Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Pale Shelter
- Woman in Chains
- Memories Fade
- I Love You But I’m Lost
- Listen
- Watch Me Bleed
- The Working Hour
- Break It Down Again
- Mothers Talk
- Advice for the Young at Heart
- Head Over Heels
- Change
- I Believe
- The Hurting
- Broken
- Ideas As Opiates
- Badman’s Song
- Suffer the Children
- Goodnight Song