I never sleep when I’m sober, never dream when I’m drunk
I get bit by the dog when I dance
and you know it’s your lot and you know what you’ve got
no skill at a game of chance
with a couple of friends and a handful of drunks
round a fire on a rainy night
then you’re gone with the tide and it’s a bargain for suicide
it comes with a lifetime supply
it’ll be plain to see
When she comes rolling back to me

when the bottles are empty and so is your head
and you’ve tripped over yesterday’s thoughts
and you wake up at dawn when the lights all come on
and you’re wondering just what you’ve caught
see it’s ribbed for her pleasure, sealed for your protection
but it doesn’t seem worth it now
there’s a storm in my stomach and a sudden regret
and high that comes crashing down
that’s just how I’ll be
when she comes rolling back to me

you can’t always carry someone on your shoulders
‘cause you know that we all have our issues
but she just keeps going and my bin’s overflowing
past the brim with her tear-soaked tissues
now I’ve lost my patience, she’s lost in translation
and some kind of obfuscation
and I drag her away from the cars on the highway
‘cause somehow that’s my obligation
but I’ll get free
when she comes rolling back to me

she’s got eyes like the sky on clear sunny day
and a smile that could rupture your soul
and she carries her money around in a book
‘cause her wallet was riddled with holes
and I wait for the morning when I can roll over
and see that she still hasn’t left
‘cause you know what I mean, must everyone’s dream
to wake up with the girl you love best
and that’s how we’ll be
when she comes rolling back to me

now the whole room is spinning so I focus my eyes
on mysterious stains on the ceiling
and I held her close, all drunk and morose
with a cracked whisper of a feeling
and I thought I must have broke all of her fingers
as the poison leached out of my system
and she held her nerve though I didn’t deserve
the ten-millionth chance I’d been given
but I promise I’ll get clean
when she comes rolling back to me

I met a magician who said pills are poison
and won’t help the state that I’m in
but medicine is magical or so it’s been sung
so somebody tell that to him
and you can’t take the word of someone who just
lives of protein-shakes and skag
long blacks and thin whites and feeling nostalgic
for something that you’ve never had
but it won’t be me
when she comes rolling back to me

she spent so long telling me how she’s so broken
but I knew that at just a glance
it was only a dream but she knows when she’s been
outsmarted in a game of chance
now all I can do is just hold her to me
now I’m soaked to the skin with her tears
just say something polite, or incredibly trite like
“a penny for your fears”
it comes with the territory
when she comes rolling back to me

her voice rises and falls with the passing of cars
at the break of the mist of the dawning
and her cigarette’s lit and she’s feeling like shit
it’s just bastard o’clock in the morning
and the plovers cry out and the sparks all fade out
and she drips her molten words on me
it’s the hand of authority, the foot of eternity
and the whole world just crumbles around me
and it’s a rising sea
when she comes rolling back to me

so you go for a few pints to drown all your sorrows
but it costs you an arm and a leg
because you’ve just been away for a year and a day
and they’ve doubled in price since you left
see the nips are getting bigger but the pints are getting smaller and always the increasing price
sipping gin through a straw but you know it costs more
and guess what mate, you just got fooled twice
but the drinks are on me
when she comes rolling back to me

at the pub ‘til late and your wallet’s lost weight
and you’ve probably spent all that you’ve got
now the power point’s drunk and the jukebox is stoned
and you really didn’t need that last shot
then it’s chucking out time and you stumble home stinking o
f spew, cigarettes and cider
and beer and butt-rollies and your BO’s unholy
but you still get to lay down beside her
that’s just her and me
when she comes rolling back to me
that’s just how we’ll be
when she comes rolling back to me