Stornoway - Here Comes The Blackout (4AD Session) lyrics

You're standing on the only chair And you're singing to the screens and the moving stairs All on your own in the arrivals You heard it in the watchman's cry And you saw it in the bleeding evening sky You got a Swiss army in your pocket 'Cos here comes the blackout...! Now the hooded snake controls your mind It stole your eye on the seventh of July We've got to learn to love our neighbour Before our neighbours start scaring the love out of us Before they frighten the love out of us In the story of the matchstick girl She was freezing on the streets of Petersburg She lit a match and found a warmer world But here comes the blackout...! Now the hooded snake controls your mind It stole your eye on the seventh of July We've got to learn to love our neighbour Before our neighbours start scaring the love out The hooded snake controls your mind It stole your eye Now we've got to learn to love our neighbour Before our neighbours start scaring the love out of us Out of us