Milk Song

[Verse 1] When the sky was the color of cream And you started leaving messages on my answering machine Telling me that you were way across town And would be home in a night or two [Verse 2] I started keeping track of my losses There were only one or two I couldn't cover And up there against the milk white sky I saw Fleeting vestiges of you [Chorus 1] The way you vanished gradually Has made a bitter man of me And the way you vanished gradually Has made a bitter man of me [Verse 3] Where the ocean cleaves the rocks real clean I dropped my answering machine I watched the waves chew it into tiny little pieces Of seafoam hissing in the air [Verse 4] On the balance sheet I'd been keeping in my mind I entered two hundred kroners to the left of the debit line It was what the machine had cost me It was a greater loss than I could bear [Verse 5] I hear the wheels and knobs whirring down to this very day Long after the ocean has washed it all away I heard the train go by last night And it's a slow train out of here, alright [Chorus 2] But the way you disappeared in slow degrees Has made a very patient man of me, yeah