The Rocket Ship is Haunted - Lyrics

Going Sane

I stumble in through the morning haze
I wake her up and apologise for being late
She says it’s five in the morning babe
I was travelling deep I was dreaming about Neanderthal days
We graze our knees on infinity
She eats the world and the world eats me

I don’t like the summer
Guess it’s time to jump on that train
She says I don’t like the summer
Geez I think we’re going sane

Someone better stop us now

Johnny taps on the window pane
Jimmy barks and she smiles as if to say I don’t care
It’s ok Jim ‘cause we’re all just waves
We come and go but the ocean doesn’t go anywhere
Time it grows like a vine
From the ashes of my mind

I don’t like the summer
Guess it’s time to jump on that train
She says I don’t like the summer
Geez I think we’re going sane

Someone better stop us now

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Your Demon

Standing on the street corner
Waiting for the aliens
To come and pick me up

I’m listening to the background noise
Waiting for a soft transmission
Through a paper cup

Do you ever try to piece together
All the stupid things you’ve done
To see where you fucked up

You say the dream is just a flesh machine
The algorithm bleeds
So shut up and kiss me (oh)

I’m sleeping with all my ex-lovers
It’s getting kinda crowded in bed
I think I’ll just stay up

I’m drinking with all my old feelings
It’s a strange way back to you
And the morning hurts

…a little but the sun comes shining
Like an old friend turning up
In her leather skirt

Your demon
Your demon
Your demon’s here to take you back
To take you back
To take you back
Your demon

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Your Dog Jimmy

Little John came around at sunrise
Drove the car around the back way
Handed me a beer and said let’s go

I was humming Claire De Lune
We were burning rubber soon
I saw that ocean shore from long ago

I hid out on that beach for three weeks counting stars
Everybody said I was a loon
Except for you    

I was married far too young
I thought I knew but I was wrong
How to be true like my mother was

June you always asked me why
I’m always staring at the sky
And how I could be so far and so close

I showed you Canis Major through the telescope
And that secret that nobody ever knew
Except for you

Morning broke
Through the mist and smoke
Your dog Jimmy came
Bit my hand and lay
Shaking underneath your bed

You stitched me up
Offered me a cup
Of coffee for the road
You said I didn’t have to go
But you know I never stay
Yeah you know I never stay
Except for you

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Blood Nose

I could say I slipped and chipped my tooth
But I suppose you want the truth
I guess I don’t know what to do
With the pain

I would say I couldn’t let it go
You’d call me blood nose weirdo
But the voices find a way
Into my head sometimes

Empty Room
Where’d you go?
Sound asleep
Bloody toes
June, I think it’s real but
No one really knows

I’ve been searching for reasons to leave
I keep a couple up my sleeve
You say it’s Artemis or me
I say ok

I try to remember what you said
Are you alive or are you dead?
But the devil finds a way
Into my head sometimes

Morning Star
Where’d you go?
Tiny seed
Of Tomorrow
June I think it’s real
But no one really knows

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Crassula

Snap freeze these June mornings sting
Jeez I can’t feel a thing

Rope burn and dust particle sun
The rust machinery hum

You flashed a smile at the police
Flipped your hair and turned to wink at me

I remember
Sitting in the cop car
You said for a moment there
I thought we were in trouble

And I should have known

Crassula is taking over my house
It only reminds me of you

It’s growing like a wildfire all pink and green
Soon it will devour me too

Spring brings you back like a time machine
Makes you wonder where you’ve been

One day you bend to take off your boots
You find your feet have taken root

Old Jimmy howls when cars pass through
Sometimes I’m sure he thinks it’s you

I remember
Staring in the soft gloom
In your mother’s bedroom
At cracks appearing in the ceiling

And I should have known

Crassula is taking over my house
It only reminds me of you

It’s growing like a wildfire all pink and green
Soon it will devour me too

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Fishing Knife

It’s cold out here but I keep warm beside the fire
I said memories ain’t gonna keep you warm
But as usual I was wrong
It’s a messed up thing to do I know you would say
Burning these old photographs
But I’m done looking at the past
Like when I cut myself with your fishing knife out on your boat
You gently placed the band-aid on
And winced as if you felt the sting
But it didn’t wanna stop bleeding
It’s a funny thing
The doctor said with smiling eyes
As I told myself to memorise
Everything just as it was
In that split second because
There are these moments you just know
You’ll wanna take with you below
You’ll wanna take with you even though
Where you’re going, you’re going alone
You’re going alone

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Swinging Hips -

I don’t believe in God anymore
But don’t tell him please
I can’t resist
I’m on my knees
I should go home

I know what you’re thinking now
But don’t tell me please
Oh I can’t relate
My mind’s adrift
I should go home

I hand you a poem I wrote
But don’t read it please
Am I awake
Or am I asleep
I should go home

You put it in your pocket and say
I know all about you
Your name is Jake
You are indeed awake
I’ll take you home

Your swinging hips
Kept me up all night

Slow moving
Impossible to describe
The sight

But I need you to understand
But a woman waits for no man


I left for the coast but I
Wrote off your new car
Before I even left
The driveway of your mother’s
Chateau Maze

I stayed for a week or two
You tipped my whiskey down the sink
I wandered ‘round
The spooky midnight grounds
Of the Chateau Maze

I saw a handsome ghost when I
Looked in the cracked up mirror
In some dusty room
I wandered into
In the Chateau Maze

I met some old butler he said
It’s been years since I have
Spoken words out loud
The silence eats the sound
In the Chateau Maze

Your swinging hips
Kept me up all night

Strange moving
Impossible to describe
The sight

But I need you to understand
But a woman waits for no man

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Down the Side of Her Bed

Come like the wind
Stay or depart
turn over leaves
in the meantime

Everyone here
Speaks from the heart
Old empty jars
Collected

Every which way
I try to start
some other path
rejected

Here I am sitting at the side of the road
With a moonbeam on my shoulder
And I’m out of good ideas but I don’t mind

I lost some thoughts in the back of my head
I let the feelings slip down the side of her bed
I was somewhere there but nowhere to be seen
I swear I caught a glimpse of what it’s like to believe oh

I gotta bail out tomorrow
The summer is already halfway to Mexico


Words are like smoke
Curling above
Whispering flames
At her party

Although she remembers
She says she forgot
But her eyes betray
Her laughter

She points at the sky
Look there’s our star
and says goodbye
over her shoulder

I lost some thoughts in the back of my head
I let the feelings slip down the side of her bed
I was somewhere there but nowhere to be seen
I swear I caught a glimpse of what it’s like to believe oh

I gotta bail out tomorrow
The summer is already halfway to Mexico

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Dead Body

Drunk and high
Still gracefully
Over my
Dead body she
In lace underwear
Drained and tired
Rushes back
Her soul re-wired

But we’re just
Pretending in case my rocket goes up in smoke
I won’t feel it don’t worry I can’t feel a thing
Anymore

In the lamp light
Of my room
She cuts my hair
I’m leaving soon
Shut your mouth
Don’t lie to me
Her tawny hands
Cut carelessly

But if this don't
Work out how we planned it would work out
Tell your mother I couldn’t find any other way
To make it through

Blinking fools
In the bleary eyed morning
Jeez, how many times
I didn’t even step outside
I wonder if the sun will still shine where I’m going
As I see the blue sky turns to stars
Don’t look back
The earth is just a marble
How minuscule
Our problems look from here
But this, this is all
Around me and all through me
Yes, I will go, more carefully from now on
Oh

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The Astronaut

How can I describe to you what it’s like to be gone?
Never knowing left from right or up from down

You wake weightless as a ghost into another dream
In the scheme of it all you’re just a murmur now

Long night star light
Never ending
Pictures of my home
I’m speeding headlong
Like some interstellar stone
I’m almost light
I’m no one now
I’m never again!

I’m all out of time
And I’m out of my mind

Tin ship on a sea of stars
In my mind you're never far

I’m just a soft touch phony shaking in his space boots
With a thousand light years to decide

A long gone weirdo loner shaking in his space suit
With a thousand light years left to hide

I’m all out of time
And I’m out of my mind

I was just a child down there, of some ungrateful God
Now I spin the marble earth on my fingertip

I always longed to be the magic man the astronaut
No one knows what it’s like to be as high as this

Long night star light
Never ending
Pictures of my home
I’m speeding headlong
Like some interstellar stone
I’m almost light
I’m no one now
I’m never again!

I’m all out of time
And I’m out of my mind

Tin ship on a sea of stars
In my mind you're never far

I’m just a soft touch phony shaking in his space boots
With a thousand light years to decide

A long gone weirdo loner shaking in his space suit
With a thousand light years left to hide

I’m all out of time
And I’m out of my mind

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