Summer, Can't Sleep Lyrics

The heat made the bins smell putrid

I'd had a drink and felt real lucid

Caught your wink and got the allusion

Though later fumbled the execution

Grew a beard, shaved my head with a razor

So I appear more intimidating

Saw ants swimming in your irises

But elected not to tell you this

Went to sea on a half hour leisure cruise

Out of Whitby it pitched as the weather turned

Grabbed the knee of a stranger then released

I'd abandoned my precious tiny niece

It's summer and I can't sleep

Cos the sun's shining on my face

And I can't pull the curtain the last peep

And a blackbird's chirping its middle eight

Bike scratched and my arm bled

My dad screamed and went bananas

Briefly dazzled the crowd with my wheelies

From the gravel I blamed diabetes

Ice cream van at school sold illicit drugs

Hid deep in the cone of your snowball cup

By chance ordered speed but didn't have the money

He retrieved the mini bag and didn't think it funny

It's summer and I can't sleep

Cos the sun's shining on my face

And I can't close the curtains that last peep

And the blackbird's chirping its middle eight

August, July and June

I'm perpetually confused

Once covered the glass

With cardboard and gaffer tape

Couldn't tell if our eyes were wide or shut tight

Slept so deep; had visions and epiphanies

Saw a new life, new possibilities

But gaps grew the tape failed,

Neighbours voiced concerns

And the light returned

We took the shortest crossing

Stood woozy on the rear deck

Engine fumes condensing

In my lungs, and in my French

It's summer and I can't sleep

Cos the sun's beating on my face

And I can't close the curtains that last peep

And somewhere a bird's chirping its middle eight