Svetlana sucks lemons across from me

And i am progressing abominably

And i do not know my own way to the sea

But the saltiest sea knows its own way to me


And the city that turns, turns protracted and slow

And i find myself toeing the embarcadero

And i find myself knowing the things that i knew

Which is all that you can know on this side of the blue


And jaime has eyes black and shiny as boots

And they march at you two-by-two(-re-loo-re-loo)

When she looks at you, you know that she's nowhere near through

It's the kindest heart beating this side of the blue


And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers

And we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words

When across the sky sheet the impossible birds

In a steady illiterate movement homewards


And gabriel stands beneath forest and moon

See them rattle and boo, and see them shake, and see them loom

See him fashion a cap from a page of camus

And see him navigate deftly this side of the blue


And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue

When the shape of their goneness will flare up anew

Then we do what we have to do(-re-loo-re-loo)

Which is all that you can do on this side of the blue


Ot it's all that you can do on this side of the blue

Oh it's all that you can do on this side of the blue