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This Boat Is Going Nowhere Tonight, Son

from Courage, For Tomorrow Will Be Worse by The Wind-up Birds

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lyrics

Plans revised and plans forgotten
A child spent wrapped up in cotton
Grandparents who spoiled you rotten
The Sun shone from your tracksuit bottoms

School was just a place to go
To shelter from the rain and snow
You never listened to what you didn’t want to know
And all of a sudden it was time to go

But this boat’s going nowhere ‘cause the canal is frozen
I’m stood there with not that many clothes on
That is the late night price for my early evening posing
This boat is going nowhere tonight

Did time for an agency
You might as well have worked for free
Existence is just temporary
You never found a place to be

Drunken nights in awful clubs
You couldn’t come up with the goods
Judgement wrecked, your mind is mud
You’d stay at home if you could

But this boat’s going nowhere, the canal is frozen
I’m stood there with not that many clothes on
That is the late night price for some early evening posing
This boat is going nowhere tonight

What to do
I find it hard to decide
And when I toss a coin it always lands on its side
What to do, its hard to decide
And when I toss a coin it only lands on its side

Walk the streets
Some kind of daze
You were wrong-footed by a roadwork maze
Confused by flash window displays
Fear sets in
Your concrete ways

Daylight strikes
Avoid the sun
Could it be your chance has gone
Every day could have been the one
Opportunities here
Fun, fun, fun

And this boat’s going nowhere ‘cause its out of season
And I’m still out for no real reason
The Sun is coming up but its still freezing
And this boat is going nowhere tonight
Well what to do
I find it hard to decide
And when I toss a coin it always lands on its side

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from Courage, For Tomorrow Will Be Worse, released December 6, 2010

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