Zero: A Martin Hannett Story

As she walks home tonight
To her house and ignores the stars
She knows there's no-one waiting

Tomorrow isn't clear enough
To give her strength or make her want
To wake and walk in the morning.

And there's hope that I've taken
And there's drugs to make it painless
And men, we're quick as rainbows,
Always rare to keep her thirsty
And I've gone, like she'd always known.

As I walk home tonight,
To my house and ignore the stars,
I know there's someone waiting,

Tomorrow is very clear,
It gives me strength and makes me want
To wake and walk in the morning

But there's hope that I've taken
And there's drugs to make it painless
And men, we're quick as rainbows,
Always rare to keep her thirsty
And I've gone, like she'd always known.

There were times of troubled dreams of hate
I'd take her down to the lake with our love
Watch it swim, we'd watch it drown
Watch our love bob up and down.

And there's hope that I've taken
And there's drugs to make it painless
And men, we're quick as rainbows,
Always rare to keep her thirsty
And I've gone, like she'd always known.

Always corpses at breakfast time.

Caroline laughs, and it's raining all day
Loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place in the side of our lives
Where nothing is ever put straight

She turns herself 'round
And she smiles and she says
"This is it, that's the end of the joke"
And loses herself in her
Dreaming and sleep, and her
Lovers walk through in their coats

Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?

All of her lovers all
Talk of her notes and the
Flowers that they never sent
And wasn't she easy, and
Isn't she pretty in pink?

The one who insists he was the
First in the line is the
Last to remember her name
He's walking around in this
Dress that she wore
She is gone, but the
Joke's the same

Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?

Caroline talks to you
Softly sometimes, she says,
"I love you" and "Too much"
She doesn't have anything
You want to steal
Well, nothing you can touch

She waves
She buttons your shirt
The traffic is waiting outside
She hands you this coat
She give you her clothes
These cars collide

Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?

Well I say what I mean
I say what comes to mind
I never get round to things
I'm living a straight, straight line

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--boredom

Now I'm living in a movie
Which doesn't move me
I'm the one waiting for the phone to ring
Ring-a-ring-a-fucking-ding

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--boredom

Now there's nothing behind me
And I'm already a has-been
My future ain't what it was
I think I know the words that I mean

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--be 'dumb, be 'dumb

I've taken this extravagant journey
So it seems to me
To arrive from nowhere
And to go straight back there

You know me--I'm acting dumb
You know the scene--very humdrum
Boredom--boredom--boredom