1) brief encounter      A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow   Not the regal creature of border caves   But the poor, misguided directionless   Familiar of some obscure scottish poet      The mist crawls from the canal   Like some primordial phantom of romance   To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen   While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father   Your carnation will rot in a vase      2) lost weekend      A train sleeps in a siding   The driver guzzles another can of lager   To wash away the memories of a friday night down at the club      She was a wallflower at sixteen   She'll be a wallflower at thirty four   Her mother called her beautiful   Her daddy said "a whore".      3) blue angel      The sky was Bible black in lyon   When I met the magdalene   She was paralysed in a streetlight   She refused to give her name      And a ring of violet bruises   They were pinned upon her arm   Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand   To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears   And from the glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear   "j'entend ton coeur"   "j'entend ton coeur"   I can hear your heart   I can hear your heart   I can hear your heart      4) misplaced rendezvous      It's getting late for scribbling and scratching on the paper   Something's gonna give under this pressure   The cracks are already beginning to show   It's too late   The weekend career girl never boarded the plane   They said this could never happen again   So wrong, so wrong      This time, it's looking like another misplaced rendezvous   This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous with you   The parallel of you, you      5) windswept thumb      On the outskirts of nowhere   On the ringroad to somewhere   On the verge of indecision   I'll always take the roundabout way   Waiting on the rain   For I was born with a habit   From a sign   The habit of a windswept thumb   And the sign of the rain   Rain on me!