Robyn Hitch***** - Idonia Lyrics
When I saw you on the market, standing by the phoneWith your hair as dark as this, how could you be aloneAll the ghosts in love with you, they craned their sorry necksLike a Viennese machine that's just discovered sexWhen I saw you on the bridge, you had to look awayIf I thought to follow you, I'd just get in the wayReaching for eternity, reaching for a chairReaching for the woman who is never even there, boysNever even thereWhen I saw your fingers folded round your albatrossStaring through the kitchen wall at everything you've lostLosing comes so easily when you acquire the tasteLife is long and life is lost and life is such a waste, boysLife is just a wasteSee the wrinkles in my hand, I am the lizard's sonWaiting for the alchemist to touch me with the sunWhen I saw your photograph, I knew we'd never meetYou were called Idonia, and I stayed in the street, boysI stayed in the streetWhen I saw your eyes were closed, that was the best thing yetThen you drove a caravan across this flimsy setCrushed beneath your wheels still, my heart goes beating onBeating for Idonia and everything she's done, boyEverything she's doneWhen I saw your pharaoh coming, handsome gypsy ladWith his memory still wet from all the fun he hadFunny how your ceiling is somebody else's floorFeeling for Idonia beside a market store, boysWho won't be back no more
