Plastic Mermaids - Yoyo Lyrics

Intro
Take me off in your waves not alone to drift in this old light
Cos I was once in your place and I know it's not fair but it's alright

Chorus
Why are you holding on to me
Why are you holding on to me

Verse
I'm a dirty little yoyo coiling up towards your hand
But your fingers have grown gangrenous,
Why are you still holding on.
You've got lipstick on your collar
Have you been kissing other men?
The worlds spun round three times since you last slept next to me.
Frictionless in the darkness, perpetually I'm spinning,
Inches from the ground I've been picking up dust.
Why can't you put me down?
You can't hold onto everything,
Sometimes we've all got to let go.

Chorus
Why are you holding on to me
Why are you holding on to me

Verse
I'm a card that you'll never play,
Held tightly in your fingers and close to your chest.
The chance has been and gone a hundred times
But you're still holding on,
And holding on for what?
Standing on the linoleum,
Smudging a porthole in the condensated window,
Last night's party has frozen to the lawn.
You're a candle burning at both ends,
But it's keeping me warm.
And have you ever imagined your life as a drop of water,
Falling from the sky, hurtling towards a puddle,
Sooner or later you'll hit the surface
And this is the moment that you die.
Waves will emanate,
Circling out front the point that you landed,
Dispersing, refracting,
These waves will get smaller
But they'll get wider too until eventually,
Someone looking in would see no trace of your life,
No sign that you were ever there.
But that doesn't mean it wasn't significant,
That doesn't mean that you weren't there.
The energy isn't lost.
Energy's never lost, it just changes form.
Everything that you've got, touch it, make it last a little while,
Because someday you'll need it,
And someday it'll be gone.
And what if we could feel nothing but in the best possible way,
Free ourselves into the maelstrom, let go of everything and just float.
A different kind of sideways.
Cos if you really can't put me down,
If you're really not letting go
Then let us smash into the floor and explode like a Jackson Pollock,
Colours overlapping, chromographically we're capturing the state of mind in which we live.
If only we could do this every day but it seems, at least for now, that death is a one-way journey.

Verse
Now we'll feel nothing at all but our eyes will be smiling
And after the fall the convection we'll ride
Thrown ourselves to the drift
I've been dreaming of this for so long.

Chorus
Why are you holding on to me
Why are you holding on to me
Why are you holding on to me
Why are you holding on to me