The snow on the screen we're going light speed tonight

Like Bonnie & Clyde except we don't die tonight

And the blister packs coats and crumpled up notes appear

It's a break from the swill, the piss they distill around here

A break from the swill, the piss they distill around here

Lift off of this Metropolis

When this town comes down,

I wish I wish

My first degree emergency

Is kettled by your cavalry

I wish I wish

The cash machine queens when ambulance teams arrive

In their skeletal jeans they take Refugees for wives

When their collars get felt their glorified belts won't keep 'em warm

And we'll run up the strand, your wrist in my hand

We know we're born

Yeah I know I'm born

Yeah I know I'm born

Lift off of this Metropolis

When this town comes down

I wish I wish

My first degree emergency

Is kettled by your cavalry

I wish I wish

And when all of your friends are my enemies

Wishing me gone as I'm running away

And my only defence is the worst of me

Out in the open for all to survey

When you settle for less than I promised you

Knowing that all of our barrels are scraped

If it seems like it's harder to say to you

It's cause some things are just harder to say

Lift off of this Metropolis

When this town comes down

I wish I wish