Lisa Hannigan - Venn Diagram

I have lost you to sleep again
Sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a Venn diagram
I read the time in shadows on the wall
The shards of light through the slats on your window

Ah ha ha ha

I ease myself from under your languid arm
Fumble on my boots and hear you breathe through your alarm
I disarm it for you, you rarely heed it anyway
I wouldn't want it to intrude upon your dream
School bell ring messing up the play

Ah ha ha ha A note, penned clumsily in this century's type-ruined hand
Saying gone down the shops for a walk
I'll bring back some sandwiches and then I kiss your face
The black and the blue tie it into my laces
I don't want the wander blocking up the view

Ah ha ha ha

I stumble out into the afternoon
Still salty from drink and the late night pool
I'll be gone an hour at most, you will be more diagonal
I've a head on me in the post, I know
A castle swallowed in the swell

Ah ha ha ha