Votive

My hands are cupped around a match.

I'm just trying to keep the lights on.

But a lighthouse should not be in league with the rocks, though as important it's all in charted waters.

And I didn't see you there,

I didn't see you there.

I didn't see you there, I didn't see you there.

Hands are cupped around a match.

I'm just trying to keep the lights on.

With the martyrs in the tombs, with the saints or whoever wants to burn whatever.

And I didn't see you there, I didn't see you there.

And I didn't see you there,

I didn't see you there.

Hands are cupped around a match.

I'm just trying to keep the lights on.

If you wanted quick results, said the night, "Well, then I think you should have been a surgeon.

" I didn't see you there, I didn't see you there.

I didn't see you there, I didn't see you there.

Or has it already gone out?

Or has it already gone out? Or has it already gone out?

Or has it already gone out? Hands are cupped around a match.

Ba-da, ba-ba-ba. I'm just trying to keep the lights on.

Ba-da, ba-ba-ba. Hands are cupped around a match.

Ba-da, ba-ba-ba. I'm just trying to keep the lights on.

Ba-da, ba-ba-ba.

I didn't see you there, I didn't see you there.

I didn't see you there, I didn't see you there.