Paperchase

(Holland/Partridge)

Sense & Sensuality

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Recordings

1. Album version, 3'29.
   Co-written by Nicky Holland and Andy Partridge.
   Performed by Nicky Holland.
   Released in June 1997 on the Nicky Holland album Sense & Sensuality in the U.K.

Art

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Lyrics

The words upon the page threw the sky into a rage
So it washed them all away, a waste of paper
Now fragments of the truth swirl above my rainy roof
What my letterbox would call a waste of paper
South wind with your wide mouth
Blow the pieces through the trees
North wind with your cold breath
Freeze my heart, as I gather up a faster pace
I won't go on another paperchase

The trees that must have died as you buried me alive
In a tomb of empty talk, a waste of paper
And all the lakes of ink it took to tell me that you think
A marriage document is just a waste of paper
East wind with your kind face
Stop the mail train, blow it back
West wind will you whistle
Herd the scraps into the bin where they belong
I won't go on another paperchase

I'll trail behind until you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place

East wind with your kind face
Stop the mail train, blow it back
West wind will you whistle
Herd the scraps into the bin where they belong
I won't go on another paperchase
I'll trail behind until you tell me face to face
As all of your excuses litter up the place

[transcribed by Andy Miller]
1997 EMI Virgin Music, Inc./Go Dutch Music/EMI Virgin Music Ltd./EMI Virgin Songs, Inc.

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