Swimming to Cambodia

歌詞

The flicker of the tv and a long forgotten memory Are the only things you'll ever leave behind The dust that's on the floor, there's noone at your door Now tell me, do you really think you're free? The war is done, my friend, you fought until the end You threw your white flag down Morning, noon and night, you always seemed to lose the fight Spalding, where the hell are you? You say that the grasses are greener and everything's cleaner on their shores Today is the day where you're going to swim to cambodia You once were lit ablaze with the fire of your younger days You blinded everyone you met You never were the same, since dublin's night consumed your flame And stole the matches from your pocket The hudson's freezing, but your braincells keep on squeezing 'round the Thought that you must swim away today From the staten island ferry on the coldest night in january It's cambodia or bust You once had feared the man who held you in his hand And controlled you when you sleep But now the end's your friend, you're reaching to extend Your white flag to the sky you once had cursed The sun is sinking and your frozen eyes are blinking At the cold atlantic nothingness ahead You take a deep sigh as you wave a passing goodbye And you set your course and swim away You say that the grasses are greener and everything's cleaner on their shores Today is the day where you're going to swim to cambodia