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