Intro verse 1 Electric cables Beneath the Atlantic There's a radar Beneath the black water Rain flecks the paint Inevitably At the end of the telescope By the pier Pre-Chorus I know you'd rather I didn't say That I want to look after you But I'd expect you to say the same For me someday This knowledge gives me no pleasure You can't kill yourself before you're born Chorus Particles like Russian dolls Folding items ever smaller verse 2 Grey wire fences Section off the wilderness A lonely cluster of woodland stands apart Like the fingers of a hand Gently browning Flat sections of cheap paint Float by like butterflies Pre-Chorus I know you'd rather I didn't say That I want to look after you But I'd expect you to say the same For me someday My demeanour is made to measure Nothing stirs beneath the farce of daily life Chorus Particles like Russian dolls Folding items ever smaller If life never ended we'd have no urgency Connect to boredom and repetition BRIDGE Chorus Particles like Russian dolls Folding items ever smaller If life never ended we'd have no urgency Connect to boredom and repetition

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