My Sister 作词：David Leonard Boulter, Mark Anthony Ste Colwill, Neil Joseph Steve Fraser, Dickon James Hinchliffe, Alistair Macaulay, Stuart Ashton Staples
Do you remember my sister? How many mistakes did she make With those never blinking eyes? I couldn't work it out
I swear she could read your mind Your life, the depths of your soul at one glance Maybe she was stripping herself away, saying
Here I am, this is me I am yours and everything about me Everything you see if only you look hard enough I never could
Our life was a pillow fight We'd stand there on the quilt Our hands clenched ready Her with her milky teeth
So late for her age And a Stanley knife in her hand She sliced the tires on my bike And I couldn't forgive her
She went blind at the age of five We'd stand at the bedroom window And she'd get me to tell her what I saw I'd describe the houses opposite The little patch of grass next to the path
The gate with its rotten hinges forever wedged Open that Dad was always going to fix She'd stand there quiet for a moment I thought she was trying to develop The images in her own head, then she'd say
I can see little twinkly stars Like Christmas Tree lights in faraway windows Rings of brightly colored rocks Floating around orange and mustard planets
I can see huge tiger striped fishes Chasing tiny blue and yellow dashes All tails and fins and bubbles I'd look at the gray house opposite and close the curtains
She burned down the house when she was ten I was away camping with the scouts The fireman said she'd been smoking in bed The old story, I thought
The cat and our mum died in the flames So Dad took us to stay with our Aunt in the country He went back to London to find us a new house We never saw him again
On her thirteenth birthday she fell down The well in our Aunt's garden and broke her head She'd been drinking heavily on her recovery her sight Returned a fluke of nature everyone said
That's when she said she'd never blink again I would tell her when she started at me With her eyes wide and watery that they reminded Me of the well she fell into, she liked this, it made her laugh
She moved in with a gym teacher When she was fifteen all muscles he was He lost his job when it all came out And couldn't get another one
Not in that kind of small town Everybody knew everyone else's business My sister would hold her head high, though She said she was in love
They were together for five years Until one day he lost his temper He hit her over the back of the neck with his bull-worker She lost the use of the right side of her body
He got three years and was out in fifteen months We saw him a while later, he was coaching A non-league football team in a Cornwall seaside town I don't think he recognized her
My sister had put on a lot of weight From being in a chair all the time She'd get me to stick pins And stub out cigarettes in her right hand
She'd laugh like mad because it didn't hurt Her left hand was pretty good though We'd have arm wrestling matches I'd have to use both arms and she'd still beat me
We buried her when she was 32, me and my Aunt The vicar and the man who dug the hole She said she didn't want to be cremated and wanted A cheap coffin so the worms could get to her quickly She said she liked the idea of it, though I thought it was Because of what happened to the cat and our mum