King Creosote - Bats In The Attic Lyrics
And I've gone silver on my travels, growing silver in my sideburnsI'm starting to unravel her, my heartbeats on a djembeI counted eighteen on my pulseAs Kilrenny Church struck three for three o'clockWatersAnd you said twelve years in retirementThe hours go by like sips of water, the record lies unbrokenAnd no doubt it's white flour in my diet, it's going to be the death of meSweet drum roll for those embittered big ideasIt's such a waste of all that I hadYou mentioned bats in the atticSo now you're lifting up the tiles to get around these conservation rulesI walked down in the basementI'm hanging upside down, I gag across my mealy mouthAnd how I'll laugh, I've loved about thatWhen I read your simple novel, it uses all our real namesAnd go make yourself a fortuneThere's nothing left for us then us left dangling just a little shamefacedIt's such a waste of what we hadAnd it's such a waste of all that we hadAnd it's such a waste of all that I am