Lyrics In The Meantime

Life has a throat, we learn to grab it
that kind of thing comes automathic
in a zone like the one we inhabit
in the meantime
Ten of us share one pair of shoes
no one dares to air their views
on the square of the hypothenuse
in the meantime

In the meantime life goes on
ticking like a meantime bomb
stories all start once
upon a meantime

They melt old locomotives down
to cast the vast black iron crown
to symbolize what weighs them down
way down in the meantime
A ghosttrain pulls into the Hauptbahnhof
no one gets on, no one gets off
but you can hear the ghostconductor cough
say all aboard for the meantime

The meantime has a strange allure
it looks so good in the brochure
you can hold it back
you can take the cure
oh sure, in the meantime

You can wait forever
meantime's never right
only blues, more bad news
coming down the pipe
Meantime's never on your side
If you're late
meantime can wait
meantime and meantime

I sent a card to my folks back home
a picture of a burning aerodrome
it came back stamped: adress unknown
I was alone in the meantime
And the iodine king killes his iodine wife
they gave him fifty years to life
Now he scrapes the days
on the wall with a knife
He knows what it means
to do meantime

In the meantime life goes on
ticking like a meantime bomb
stories all start once
upon a meantime