Del Amitri - Breaking Bread lyrics

All day long, sweeping up the dead pigeons
From the pavement after the long dim dawn
He remembered how she pulled him
From disaster into laughter

Well it didn't take long for
Him to be consumed
And he turned around and said
As her caressing resumed
"We once were close but
Now we're both marooned
And what was once a stirring melody
Is now a distant tune"
She said "You angel, you flower
You're powerful"
But he felt no feelings but his
Head hot and belly full
And basking in the sun he
Only feels a gas fire
And he sees no apparent difference between
The chimney and the church spire
He says: "This garden of roses
Is overgrown with weeds
And where the great west river flows I
Can see nothing but pebbles and reeds"
All day long she stuck his nose into Siberia
And dragged him through Hong Kong
Till she said "You carrier, you coward
You're pitiful
Feeling less and less is just an
Easy way of doing more wrong"