My Beautiful Defence

Hey, looks like sleep is here

Its two thirty AM the town has been cleared and

The traffic has stopped for the minute at least

We lie like a symphony under the sheets

And earlier today you said “you know, girl

”We're like two different halves of two different worlds”

And I said “that's fine, who says difference repels?”

Like some crackpot play or some sketch of fate

We've carried the scripts and the times and the dates

In each others arms and our bodies are spent

And you've got the roll of my beautiful defence

And I spent some time trying to sum up your eyes

In a cafe in Oldham Street under Indian skies

Through the racks of your history and all the crossed lives

And you looked so sad with all those ghosts on your tail

When they claw at your skin you're all secrets and veils

You say ”Its dragging me under the riptide” and I said

”When the whole world comes down I'll hold it up round your head”

Like some crackpot play or some sketch of fate

We've carried the scripts and the times and the dates

In each others arms and our bodies are spent

And you've got the roll of my beautiful defence

Beautiful defence

Maybe we can change the world, it might just take a while

If we're gonna fight our corner we're gonna do it with style

You've got the beauty and you've got the heart

And that is as good a place as any to start

You're my beautiful defence

You're my beautiful defence