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Heaven in the Afternoon Lyrics
I love you like I love my blood
I love this town, I love you just as much
I love you like I love my God
I thought that we agreed to never touch
Come and sit beside me in the dark
Incline your head
Mama take a hold of me
I read bad books, I'm crying in my sleep
Mama take a hold of me
Lonely's easy for the rocks and trees
"Sister, make my feelings known," I whisper to the grass
Supersonic sight, practiced in thickest light
9.30, hello night-time
I'll never sleep again
Heaven in the afternoon
The sunlight bids me to the viewing room
I take a little overdose
And the sun has gone, I see the city clock
Baby, did you pick yourself a boy up in the aisle?
You want someone to read to you
A bear called Pooh
Tales of Ratty's riverbank
A fantasy
Baby stories
A reverie
A body warm in sympathy
A body warm in sympathy
I love this town, I love you just as much
I love you like I love my God
I thought that we agreed to never touch
Come and sit beside me in the dark
Incline your head
I read bad books, I'm crying in my sleep
Mama take a hold of me
Lonely's easy for the rocks and trees
"Sister, make my feelings known," I whisper to the grass
9.30, hello night-time
I'll never sleep again
The sunlight bids me to the viewing room
I take a little overdose
And the sun has gone, I see the city clock
Baby, did you pick yourself a boy up in the aisle?
A bear called Pooh
Tales of Ratty's riverbank
A fantasy
Baby stories
A reverie
A body warm in sympathy
A body warm in sympathy
Song Info
Submitted by
southbound On Aug 03, 2006
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this song is full of vulnerability, which i think is why it is so endearing.
Lovely.
It's a song about 60s artist, model, actress Edie Sedgwick, who lived a short life of 28 years.
'“I wrote that song and I can’t quite remember why I asked Sarah to sing it,” says Murdoch. “But it’s somewhat inspired by the Edie Sedgwick biography. She’d gone through such a bad mental state. The only stuff she could take in were baby stories like Winnie the Pooh. So I wrote that one for Edie and the condition she was in."
The lines which directly reflects her lifestyle are 'Supersonic sight, practiced in thickest light 9.30, hello night-time I'll never sleep again'
It refers to her figure and pictures made of her, the second line is about her partying lifestyle...the line 'I take a little overdose" is about her addiction to speed.
It's about heroin.