James Yorkston Steady As She Goes Lyrics

Your sister was always trouble your sister she just was
not shy and all the stories she told me of her foreign
holidays
Designed to raise the stakes and put colour in my
cheeks and show you she could have anything she wanted
and lord was I sorely tempted
She?s laughing as I cannot look her in the eye and now
she?s taking hold my hand steady as she goes

Now it?s only us around With a rose held in my mouth
and everything is a sin everything is dangerous it
seems
but now I?m cursing on the floor and coughing out the
blood
one day until the weekend and I am thirsty beyond my
dreams

We took a little drink for summer it is a drinking
season
And we took a long long walk for what else here could
we do
That involved the two of us for an hour slowly
disappearing that involved the two of us a long long
way from little old you
And I let your mind get you far away for nothing much occurred steady as she blows

And you quick in my ear like a kid store whistles
And tonights a night for I will not be awoken
But shes all claws and feathers and spite and spittle
And we are slipping and sliding with greed and
anticipation

And the couple behind the pier you?ll remember fine as
being us my dear
We made the front-page news for a moment took a local
ear
I kept my head I swam ashore the blame was solely mine
for you even though I saved her skin I rode back out
and I brought her in
And you cursed me under and over your breath but her
eyes were as good as mine steady as you go

And we watched her so long she turned her tail away
How dare we have once how dare we walk unchanged
For the love of the choir we keep our heads down
stilted conversation for another time