XTC
Skylarking
Ballet for a Rainy Day lyrics
Orange and lemonRaincoats 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
apples and cherries
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
XTC
Albums Song Lyrics
Album Name: Skylarking
Release date: 2005
- 1000 Umbrellas
- Another Satellite
- Ballet for a Rainy Day
- Big Day
- Dear God
- Dying
- Earn Enough for Us
- Grass
- Mermaid Smiled
- Sacrificial Bonfire
- Season Cycle
- Summer's Cauldron
- That's Really Super, Supergirl
- The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
- The Meeting Place
Album Name: Homespun
Release date: 2005
- Easter Theatre
- Frivolous Tonight
- Fruit Nut
- Greenman
- Harvest Festival
- I'd Like That
- I Can't Own Her
- Knights in Shining Karma
- River Of Orchids
- The Last Balloon
- Your Dictionary
Album Name: Apple Venus, Pt. 1
Release date: 2005
- Easter Theatre
- Frivolous Tonight
- Fruit Nut
- Greenman
- Harvest Festival
- I'd Like That
- I Can't Own Her
- Knights in Shining Karma
- River Of Orchids
- The Last Balloon
- Your Dictionary
Album Name: Upsy Daisy Assortment
Release date: 2005
- Ball and Chain
- Chalkhills and Children
- Dear God
- Earn Enough for Us
- Funk Pop a Roll
- Generals and Majors
- Grass
- King for a Day
- Life Begins at the Hop
- Love on a Farmboy's Wages
- Making Plans for Nigel
- No Thugs in Our House
- Respectable Street
- Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
- Senses Working Overtime
- The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
- The Disappointed
- The Mayor of Simpleton
- This World Over
Album Name: XTC Live
Release date: 2005
- Are You Receiving Me?
- Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)
- Burning With Optimism's Flames
- Generals and Majors
- Life Begins at the Hop
- Living Through Another Cuba
- Love at First Sight
- Making Plans for Nigel
- No Language In Our Lungs
- Respectable Street
- Scissor Man
- This is Pop?
- Towers Of London
Album Name: Nonsuch
Release date: 2005
- Books Are Burning
- Bungalow
- Crocodile
- Dear Madam Barnum
- Holly Up On Poppy
- Humble Daisy
- My Bird Performs
- Omnibus
- Rook
- That Wave
- Then She Appeared
- The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
- The Disappointed
- The Smartest Monkeys
- The Ugly Underneath
- War Dance
- Wrapped in Grey
Album Name: Oranges and Lemons
Release date: 2005
- Across This Antheap
- Chalkhills and Children
- Cynical Days
- Garden of Earthly Delights
- Here Comes President Kill Again
- Hold Me My Daddy
- King for a Day
- Merely a Man
- Miniature Sun
- One of the Millions
- Pink Thing
- Poor Skeleton Steps Out
- Scarecrow People
- The Loving
- The Mayor of Simpleton
Album Name: The Big Express
Release date: 2005
- All You Pretty Girls
- I Bought Myself a Liarbird
- I Remember the Sun
- Reign of Blows
- Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
- Shake You Donkey Up
- The Everyday Story of Smalltown
- This World Over
- Train Running Low on Soul Coal
- Wake Up!
- You're the Wish You Are I Had
Album Name: Mummer
Release date: 2005
- Beating of Hearts
- Deliver Us From the Elements
- Funk Pop a Roll
- Great Fire
- Human Alchemy
- In Loving Memory of a Name
- Ladybird
- Love on a Farmboy's Wages
- Me and the Wind
- Wonderland
Album Name: English Settlement
Release date: 2005
- All of a Sudden (It's Too Late)
- Ball and Chain
- Down in the Cockpit
- English Roundabout
- Fly On the Wall
- It's Nearly Africa
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Knuckle Down
- Leisure
- Melt the Guns
- No Thugs in Our House
- Runaways
- Senses Working Overtime
- Snowman
- Yacht Dance
Album Name: Black Sea
Release date: 2005
- Burning With Optimism's Flames
- Generals and Majors
- Living Through Another Cuba
- Love at First Sight
- No Language In Our Lungs
- Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins)
- Respectable Street
- Rocket From A Bottle
- Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
- Towers Of London
- Travels In Nihilon
Album Name: Drums and Wires
Release date: 2005
- Chain of Command
- Complicated Game
- Day In Day Out
- Helicopter
- Limelight
- Making Plans for Nigel
- Millions
- Outside World
- Real by Reel
- Roads Girdle the Globe
- Scissor Man
- Ten Feet Tall
- That is the Way
- When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
Album Name: White Music
Release date: 2005
- All Along the Watchtower
- Atom Age
- Do What You Do
- I'm Bugged
- Neon Shuffle
- New Town Animal
- Radios in Motion
- Set Myself on Fire
- Spinning Top
- Statue of Liberty
- This is Pop?
- X Wires
Album Name: Go 2
Release date: 2005
- Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)
- Beatown
- Buzzcity Talking
- Crowded Room
- I am the Audience
- Jumping in Gomorrah
- Life is Good in the Greenhouse
- Meccanic Dancing (Oh We Go!)
- My Weapon
- Red
- Super-Tuff
- The Rhythm
Album Name: Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
Release date: 2005
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