Belle And Sebastian

Your Covers Blown

Belle And Sebastian


Say what you want and leave your shyness home 
Do what you want and write a little poem 
Leave it for her and live another day 
Leave it for her the girl around the way

Write down a list of things you want to do 
Leave it in work because you've got to live a little 
Pick up the girl in someone's borrowed mini 
Take her to dinner, use her boyfriend's money

Listen lady, put your __ phone down 
Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends to cool it 
Your cover's blown I want to see you alone 
Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends to cool it 
Your cover's blown

Planning a break is such a tricky thing 
Because you move to the country, she comes back again 
And then you move to the city but she goes abroad 
Is she telling you something, is she getting bored?

I'll make a rough plan to sleep around, 
I'm in a rut I need a change, 
I'm a lazy rat if I am honest 
My bold change of tack will fade out with the summer I've got no appetite and all the girls are bummers

My baby doesn't look at me 
The way I want her to look 
She doesn't comprend 
My baby's got it going on 
She's got a friend hid in every street in this town

I want to go out but there's nobody home I'll go on my own
Thus starts the lonely walking 
There's always too much talking I should have stayed home
She starts her cool caressing 
The kid, she starts undressing in front of me I should've stayed home
The dj's picking up speed 
That's something I just don't need 
I should've stayed home
The gossip's bearing down on me 
The kids are pairing off in front of me 
I should've stayed home 
I should've stayed home 
I think I'll go home

Hey lady, put your __ phone down 
Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends to cool it 
Cause your cover's blown I want to see you alone 
Cancel all operations 
ell your friends to cool it
Hey lady, put your __ phone down 
Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends to cool it 
Cause your cover's blown I want to see you alone 
Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends to cool it

Hey lady, meet my mum and dad 
You're a strange aberration 
In this land of potted plants and boxlike houses 
Where the girls like mouses 
Breathe a long sigh of resignation 
You resign your self to keep on growing 
All the seeds you're sowing 
You're a strange apparition In this land of grammar schools and gala days 
The ladies set in their ways
You had a long conversation With a kid next door 
Who's a little slow 
But in your favour, it shows 

Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends to move out to the sticks
Listen lady, leave the phone down 
Cancel all operations 
Tell your friends there's more to you than this