Enter Sylvia Plath - Belle & Sebastian

Come, and steal my thoughts away

Thief of my identity

I was holding on to decency, reality

Come, and take me for a while

Up to your abundant pace

I’ll be your sidecar if you want to race

Want to race

Put your hand on mine

And take me from this tired ride

Take me from this early night

From the sea and rain and countryside

If you talk to me then soon

I’ll be your accomplice in words

And we will talk only in verse

Talk only in verse

I will leave the ones I love

Leave them for the years to come

Even though I may be doing wrong, doing wrong

I will follow in your steps

Walk out to the station cold

Buy a ticket and and then slowly go, slowly go

In this place and time

Easy is the first escape

I got money I need no disguise

I’m a citizen and city wise

In this time and place

There is no one who will shoot you down

No one who will take a girl

And tell her she can’t have the world

You constantly struggle for self improvement

You have the ability to analyse and solve any problem

You are heading in the right direction

Your mind is creative, original and alert

Boy, you don’t know what you want

It isn’t what you think it is

All the dreams, and guilt and loneliness, loneliness

Boy, if we were to be friends

Subtle is the art required

To draw the evil from this lonely pyre, lonely pyre

Take this hand from me

And guide me round your tools of work

Fashion me into your junior clerk

Let me live in shadows of your words

And when things get tough for you

As they did when you came up through the ranks

You can borrow from my faith

From my faith

Take this hand from me

And guide me round your tools of work

Fashion me into your junior clerk

Let me live in shadows of your words

And when things get tough for you

As they did when you came up through the ranks

You can borrow from my faith

From my faith