Pram Lyrics

The Museum Of Imaginary Animals

The Owl Service

The road is long and made of sand and grit
The trees loom up against the sky
The turnip moon makes a song of the lake
And all I know is heartache
The night is a tender velvet cloak
Lined in mist, edged in starlight
The waters rise and threaten to drown the shore
A boat to cross the water what I long for

Animals, darkness and trees
Between me and where i live

This valley's dammed to serve only one purpose
It's history condemned it to engulfment 
The bones of houses show in the summertime
A row of gateless gateposts standing in line
The night's so quiet I can hear the snails crawl
Cutting the leaves they smear with silver
The scent of my own fear fills the air
The sound of my own breathing makes me shiver

Bewitched

No one ever said my life wasn't free
Or openly declared war on me
But a child's a radar for signals from above
How to get or not get love

They use the ether to bewitch us
They use the ether to build a bridge to us

From certain corners where I used to hide
I could act as a satellite spying on my own life
Decode the message in the space between the words
And learn that even silence hurts

Mother Of Pearl

Like teaching snails to make pearls
Coating with plastic and elastic world
The essence of a thing cannot be bottled
But bottled up you are
As if life frightens you

Without dreams or memories
You're caught between me and the devil
And the deep blue sea

In dreams of crumbling houses
Always a staircase leading to the stars
Hope and fear in collision
We need to creep around
The edges of our lives

Without dreams or memories
You're caught between me and the devil
And the deep blue sea

The Mermaids' Hotel

The only cloud I see
Is the steam trail from the plane
A number station sings a sub-aquatic refrain
A history of ice rejoins the ocean again
And the girl from sunshine land
Now lives in the rain

Only the fish can live
On the island of honeymoons
You'd have to be a mermaid
To stay in your hotel room

The satellites look down
Where the pacific waves swell
The coral is a forest
Where drowned memories dwell
The oysters in the church
The current ringing the bell
And the girl from sunshine land
Has a watery tale to tell

A Million Bubbles Burst

Lost in an universe, a cold and silent place
Can't find my own light to show the space
I occupy in time, an insignificance
In this old Universe, not worth a glance

And I know, time is like a train
Carrying me away, and that someday,
We'll leave each other behind
Time travellers moving on

Our lives expand with it
A million bubbles burst
And time it swallows life
Consumes the universe
To everything I say, time is indifferent
And when I'm old I'll say
Don't know where the time went

Cat's Cradle

Ill defined, the creatures in your dreams
Faces you know, blurring out what they mean
A tangle of voices twisting words out of shape
A bunch of wire fingers
And no way to escape

There's no way of knowing how things fall apart
The smallest of incidents right from the start
There's no way of knowing how things fall apart
A jigsaw of pieces the missing ones in your heart

I'll defined, the creatures in your dreams
I they linger by daylight
The shadows increase it seems
As the world keeps on turning
The seasons come round
Their world is a mirror of yours
Your life upside down

Play of the Waves

In the arms of the world
Let yourself unfurl
Take a leaf out of my book, and
Watch the edges curl

In a ship made out of dreams
Intimate with the seas
With maps of stars inside our heads,
We'll sail it where we please