No taxi could take you, no trains rolling by   No bicycle shop, no planes in the sky   Not a night spent in jail, parrot on my arm   Not a man of the sword, no patch on my eye      Dark and metric is my town   every day and night   Just because you're floating   doesn't mean you haven't drowned      No spoiler, no windscoop, no magazine back   No hydraulic shocks, no privacy glass      Dark and metric is my town   North, East, West and South,   Just because you're smiling   doesn't mean you haven't drowned.