James Yorkston - Steady As She Goes lyrics

Your sister was always trouble Your sister she just was not shy And all the stories she told me of her foreign holidays Designed to raise the stakes and put color in my cheeks And show you she could have anything she wanted And lord was I sorely tempted, she's laughing As I cannot look her in the eye and now she's taking Hold my hand steady as she goes And you want me as man with a rose held in my mouth And everything is a sin everything is dangerous it seems But now I'm cursing on the thorns and coughing out the blood One day until the weekend and I am thirsty beyond my dreams We took a little drink for summer it is a drinking season And we took a long long walk for what else here could we do That involved the two of us for an hour slowly disappearing That involved the two of us a long long way from little old you Don't let your mind get you far away for nothing much occurred Steady as she blows And you quick in my ear like a kid store whistles And tonight's a night for I will not be awoken But she's all claws and feathers and spite and spittle And we are slipping and sliding with greed and anticipation And the couple behind the pier you'll remember Fine as being us my dear, we made the front-page news For a moment took a local ear, I kept my head I swam ashore the blame was solely mine for you Even though I saved her skin I rode back out And I brought her in and you cursed me under And over your breath but her eyes were As good as mine steady as you go And we watched her so long she turned her tail away How dare we have wants how dare we want change For the love of the quiet we keep our heads down This is a conversation for another time