Everything Twice

Tim Finn

This song should be sung
In memoriam
For absent friends and places
Through all the winter fun
You made it feel like sun
An inner-city oasis

Home is where you go
When you crave some afterglow
The past can set you free

That was the first time
Could it be the last
Do spiders webs and wedding cake
Tie us to the past

When you let love in
You're gonna roll the dice
That's why you
Have to
Go through everything twice

I was tired
Lost my weltanschauung
Then the choir
From the Gates of Salvation
Took me higher
You took me up above the moon
To get us some exposure
"Liar"
OK, we went to Liverpool
And that is full disclosure

Rainy day in Melbourne
Sometimes it's home
Afternoons in Auckland
I just wanna be left alone

And as for Dublin
Even paradise got a price
But why d'you
Have to
Go through everything twice?

Here I go again
Nothing's really changed
You'd think I learned my lesson
But the old songs must be sung
And the new ones just begun
This time we're not messin'

I'm lying in my room
With the ghost of Molly Bloom
Her best friend's a dancer
People that you know
Some go too fast
Some go too slow
Some are kings
Some are queens
Some are chancers

And that's why you
Have to
Go through
Go through everything twice

This song should be sung
In memoriam
Of all our favourite places
And we've only just begun
To have a little fun
After so long in stasis

That's why you
Have to
Go through
Go through everything twice