Marine Research

Chucking Out Time

Album: Sounds From The Gulf Stream [1999]

You pushed me too far, I’ve had enough 

Things you loved are now just stuff 

The warmth of the winter seen in the 

Springtime is strange 

 

I’m doing the dishes, smash a glass 

Watch the reddened suds contrast 

The outward pretence at calm 

With the chaos inside 

Chucking out time for last year’s trash 

Chucking the things you thought were flash 

There’s so much to do 

And I’m not halfway done 

 

Chucking out all your NME’s 

Chucking the things you sent to me 

The traces of you 

It’s fun now I’ve begun 

 

Dusting the telly, flick a switch 

And wish that I was in Bewitched 

I wrinkle my nose but nothing 

Seems ever to change 

 

I’m trimming the hedge for passers-by 

Thinking I can pacify 

My heartache with something 

So easy and anodyne 

 

Chucking out all of last year’s trash 

Chucking the things you thought were flash 

There’s so much to do 

And I’m not halfway done 

 

Chucking out all your NME’s 

Chucking the things you sent to me 

The traces of you 

It’s fun now I’ve begun