I'll Never Get Home

20,000 is a perfect number
Fits together
You and me

I've been crawling on the carpet for four hours now
Burning holes in my knees for your hand
You are my red-faced girl
Dark hair, dark eyes
Dark feather, dark eyes
Who wishes she had darker skin

I hope when it turns midnight
You won't leave me when the sunny lights are gone
I'll feel cold, in the room, at the window, All alone
When your car starts for the forty-nine
I don't want to take your hand
And take your way of life away and then
Where the drums are, tom tom
Where the drums are, you won't be welcome

I missed the ship that took them back all the way across the ocean
But your family came from here
But I didn't sail here to destroy you
I came all the way, across the ocean just to hold you
Just to hold you, just to hold you
I came all the way

The A.I.M won't support me because I don't look like them, to them
But I didn't sail here to destroy you
I came all the way across the ocean just to, just to hold you
Just to hold you
Just to hold you
Just to hold you
I came all the way

I came all the way