The Blue Aeroplanes - Tolerance lyrics

You could measure the effects of that time in light A lamp could be the mark of something new There were plants and frames and paintings invisible structure She did conceal him with her quick arms Her intent was the only thing that kept him there And it was you Who said she looked older While it was me Who stood by the door But it was you Who gave her the shelter That she looked to him for A worthwhile past-time but a sad ambition Absentee notes in the next room with X She should go out more and he should show some tolerance Ah, big ridicule such little thing Such grip on everything we have On everything we have And it was you Who cried on her shoulder And it was you Who got lost and found And it was me Who said you should go there And she should come along Our coat tails drag marks Old flings don't hold a candle When the lights go out at that civilised time What do we have? More poems The emptier the better And events in the future Like a state of undress Through that wintry air Kiss news down the line And here we are again And it was you Who cried on her shoulder And it was you Who got lost and found And it was me Who said you should go there But it was you who gave her the shelter