orpheus beach

i hear you skating on the ice

and wonder why you left me twice

the eerie sound of blade on lake

cracks my skin and i fill with ache

but i don't want this heart

i don't need this blood

i see you running through the grass

a doctors daughter

a sky of glass

my swollen eye at sunday school

no saviour here under god's bright rule

but i don't want this heart

i don't need this blood

time to be leaving

run from your reach

gonna go dreaming on orpheus beach

i feel you breathing in my head

but better there if not in bed

i wash your perfume from my clothes

i don't believe that affection goes

but i don't want this heart

i don't need this blood

time to be leaving

run from your reach

gonna go dreaming on orpheus beach