Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Outside the cafe by the cracker factory

You were practicing a magic trick

And my thoughts got rude, as you talked and chewed

On the last of your pick and mix

Said you’re mistaken if you're thinking that I haven't been caught

cold before

As you bit into your strawberry lace

And then a flip in your attention in the form of a gobstopper

Is all you had left and it was going to waste

Your past-times, consisted of the strange

And twisted and deranged

And I love that little game you had called

Crying lightning

And how you like to aggravate the ice-cream man on rainy afternoons

The next time that I caught my own reflection

It was on it's way to meet you

Thinking of excuses to postpone

You never look like yourself from the side

But your profile could not hide

The fact you knew I was approaching your throne

With folded arms you occupied the bench like toothache

Stood and puffed your chest out like you never lost a war

And though I tried so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction

There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw

And your past-times, consisted of the strange

And twisted and deranged

And I hate that little game you had called

Crying lightning

And how you like to aggravate the icky man on rainy afternoons

Uninviting

But not half as impossible as everyone assumes

You are crying lightning

Oh you were reading a book about some idiot

And telling me about another

I was so severely underwhelmed

I thought I might never recover

Straighten the rudder girl

And sail me up stairs

And go and find somebody

Who cares

Well we might not be the perfect partners

But tonight we make a pair

Your past-times, consisted of the strange

And twisted and deranged

And I hate that little game you had called

Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Crying lightning

Your past-times, consisted of the strange

And twisted and deranged