Short Break

(album: Domino - 1998)

He raped her with his eyes the minute she walked into the office as she stretched to hang her coat behind the door
He beamed a smile so big she could have filled it with helium and flown off across the countryside
He tried very hard to invite her out for lunch but like most women she could sense the underlying note of danger
Her instincts kept him at a safe distance and then he made her a coffee and the steam rose across her face

It could be you, it could be me
We'll have to wait, we'll have to see
It's all for sale, now that its time
To take a short break

The sensation of safety in driving like a little boy ambition turning around [?] mountain side makes a woman mad for attention
She hides the car keys, he turns the place upside down, he looks out the window to see a driving off in the distance
A cloud of country dust feathers the sunlight as she smiles into the windscreen
What he can do is folding a coin through his fingers

It could be you, it could be me
We'll have to wait, we'll have to see
It's all for sale, now that it's time
To take a short break

There she is again this time with a pair of jeans being pulled slowly up over the curves of her body
He plays guitar in the rocking chair, these are the jeans of our forefathers these are the jeans of the 21st century
This is the new world where television and eye become one as we look down the digital telescope into the future
And now its time for a short break

It could be you, it could be me
We'll have to wait, we'll have to see
It's all for sale, now that its time
Its lighter than air
Whiter than white, draft in a can
The price is right, save as you go
The drive of your life, its good to talk
We say hello, we say goodbye, deep frozen days
It could be you, it could be me
It's all for sale, now that its time
To take a short break