My Other Life - Lloyd Cole

Clearly you can see that I am bleeding

Clearly you can see my clothes are torn

Clearly this demands an explanation

Only I can offer none

My other life

Witnesses have placed me at the crime scene

Forensic evidence concurs

Samples taken from under my fingernails

Support the prosecution’s case

My other life

Analysis has failed to find a motive

Hypnotists have failed to beak the code

Journalists are camped out on my doorstep

Perchance that I might slip and drop the key

My other life

Welcome to my made for TV movie

I look strangely placid on the stand

You can be the judge and you the jury

Consider please the allegations

My other life

I slip away to my other life

With no regret or remorse

Happy and gay in my other life

No need to wake me Monday morning

From my other life