A massive moon,
  a jumped-up ape.
 I kiss the earth and choke
 and make it to Gatwick
with a drill
and ten red roses.

I slip and fall, a banana skin.
Break out my heart, only waving.
This night's fine and all is fair
in love and the war within me raging...

You kill me off in theory,
then you pardon me for breathing.
Oh, the sweet smell of the street,
it was so forgiving!

I threw everything at you,
my misery, my joy and truth,
my haemorrhaging time.
(I've been expecting you!)
You probably don't remember me,
et in Arcadia ego.
My feelings did so very much for you.
(I've been expecting you!)

I threw nearly everything at you,
my misery, my joy and truth,
my haemorrhaging time
and my piecemeal grief;
and all I was in other eyes.
I described it as I did.
(I've been expecting you!)
I tried to find the words to buy you,
cut through to your pretty bones like kindness.
(Like kindness.)
You didn't love me with a vengeance,
it was always coming true.
Am I lucky to be alive, my friend?
I've been expecting you.
(I've been expecting you!)

You probably don't remember me,
the bad old days and so on,
back when there was something wrong with love.
(I've been expecting you!)
Little room, jumped-up ape,
I kiss the floor and joke:
"You're not the only child round here!"
(I've been expecting you!)
In seaweed paint I dance for you,
'round the ruins, 'round the view,
the Helen & Menelaus Snack Bar.
(I've been expecting you!)
Then you killed me off in theory,
et in Arcadia ego,
my feelings did so very much for you.
(I've been expecting you!)

The pain is so extraordinary!
This pain in all its story tells me:
Pain's the best all purpose preservative!
You were one of my better creations.
Everything's permitted I hereby swear!
(I've been expecting you!)
I cannot change, this is how I see it.
In these words, not other words,
nor at other times, nor otherwise,
(nor otherwise,) nor otherwise,...

You didn't love me with a vengeance,
it was always coming true.
Am I lucky to be alive, my friend?
I've been expecting you.
(I've been expecting you!)