Little Fictions Lyrics - Elbow

A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table 

A baffling contretemps that shakes the day unstable 

Confessions from the cab a habit that I got from dad 

The flurry of departure in a cyclone of cologne 

Would often devastate the gate and hedge 

And set our tiny teeth on edge 

I see it in me now and pledge 

To knock it on the head that's what I'll do 

A muffled battle cry across the kitchen table 

Bridges up portcullis down and round the Tower of Babel 

I'm babbling in my dreams of blue berserkers coming at me 

Eyes and tongues and rusty knives 

And God almighty laughing at me 

From a fat boy fishing chair 

I wake to find you laughing there 

It's nice to know how much you care 

Decided I should spend my life with you 

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We protect our little fictions 

Like it's all we are 

Little wilderness mementos 

But there's only you and me here 

Fire breathing 

Hold tight 

Waiting for the original miracle 

I'm trying to focus on the issues of the day please 

Your paper's upside down 

The radio's in Chinese 

These little tremors that are ripping through our rituals 

That friction up the interaction 

Emanate from quite the greatest 

Thing that ever happened to 

A pair of boozy bowerbirds 

Like me and you 

In other words 

The alligator pear inside of you 

We protect our little fictions 

When we bow to fear 

Little wilderness mementos 

But there's only you and me here 

Fire breathing 

Hold tight 

Waiting for the original miracle 

Fire breathing 

Hold tight 

Life is the original miracle 

Let's get old 

Dare you now 

Mix blood with me 

All in 

Love is the original miracle 

Let's get old 

Dare you now 

Mix blood with me 

All in 

Love is the original miracle 

Love is the original miracle