Ballet For A Rainy Day Lyrics - Skylarking - Xtc

Orange and lemon 

Raincoats roll and tumble 

Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray 

Pineapple wet heads 

Watch new hairdos crumble 

As scenery sunlight shifts away 

Ballet for a rainy day 

Silent film of melting miracle play 

Apples and cherries 

Are varnished in water 

Despite, striped awnings bright dismay 

I push my paintbrush 

To conjure a new world 

While this one is slowly washed away 

Ballet for a rainy day 

Silent film of melting miracle play 

Dancing out there through my window 

To the backdrop of a slow descending grey 

When it rains it rains 

All the colors in my paintbox 

When it rains it rains 

Tickets for the front row seats 

Up on the rooftops 

Orange and lemon 

Raincoats roll and tumble 

Together, dropped in diamond disarray 

Ballet for a rainy day 

Silent film of melting miracle play 

Dancing out there through my window 

Behind the curtain silver falling 

Ballet for a rainy day 

Silent film of melting miracle play 

Dancing out there through my window 

To the backdrop of a slow descending grey