Recluse - Neil Finn

When you’re one of us

You can stay here for the rest of your life

I’ll open windows when you want to look out

At the transit of Venus ‘cross the sun

As you’re gathering dust

Ancient dragons and the cicadas come

The edges jagged as you’re coming undone

On the white soft feathers of your bed

Well you know how hard I try

But I won’t get nowhere analysing your life

And it’s people that you lose

When you become a recluse

Turn away from us

Days are darker when the winter comes

Can’t remove yourself from what you have done

On the rack where your reputation lies

Do you want to exist

Between the lightning and the mental bliss

Or needing nothing and with no one to miss

Like a stray dog pissing on a statue

Solitude is hard to find

And they’re all too busy organising your life

But it’s people that you lose

When you become a recluse

Well don’t be so nervous now

All I want is to be dancing round in your light

With the colours that you choose

When you become a recluse

Ohh

I make any excuse to stay home

But I can’t do that and I must come back

People that stay at home

Watching a game of thrones

And wondering what comes next

Well you can’t do that and you must come back

Pictures of geese fly they around us and this leads to that

Take us everywhere and bring us back

Well I dreamt that Jesus had a gun

Sure it’s getting cold outside

And they’re all to busy organising your life

But it’s people that lose when you become a recluse

I think Howard Hughes would love to be on the internet

I think Sly Stone should hold his own on the internet

Bobby Fischer lost and won then took a permanent holiday

He’ll be back to host a variety show on television someday

JD Salinger lived long ago and far away

Greta Garbo parked her car and walked home from a

Glamorous party

I just want to be alone