Seis de La Mañana

It's almost six
Like every morning
And my head is spinning

Life smells like sawdust
And waiter's wages
And the rest of the blasphemies I keep to myself

And it goes out of tune
A nest of nightingales
But you stay calm, worse times will come

And the alibi of the night falls apart, Mr. Judge
And the newlyweds cry, condemned to know
And in dead-end alleys an accordion commits suicide

And the mechanics of the rock 'n' roll of the alarm clock
Calling to obey the law
And me putting on my sweater
Eager to miss the train
At six in the morning

(I'm not getting up this week)
Ding-dong, six in the morning
(The sun has let us down)

Another Sunday and another
Monday that agonizes
And another Tuesday and another Ash Wednesday

So if you happen to
Beautifully cross my path
Don't step on my navy blue suede shoes

And the wayward sheep sheared back to the fold
And the dawn virus cuts like a scalpel
And in hospitals without memory they cast a heart

In the operating room of the rock 'n' roll of the alarm clock
Calling to obey the law
And me taking off my sweater
Not really feeling like living
At six in the morning

(I'm not getting up this week)
Damn six in the morning
(The sun has let us down)

Our Father who art
In the motels
In the dark circles, in the sheets, and in the glasses
It's six and never in the morning
When those who have nothing left to scratch start to itch

(At six in the morning)
And those who have dreamed almost everything wake up
(At six in the morning)
And the wayward sheep sheared back to the fold

(At six in the morning)
And the kiss of dawn stings like a scalpel
(At six in the morning)
And the mailmen only leave ads in the mailbox

(At six in the morning)
And politicians put on their starched smiles
(At six in the morning)
And the alibi of the night falls apart, Mr. Judge

(At six in the morning)
And cheated wives get used to losing
(At six in the morning)
And the cowardly Sun of the evenings takes centuries to die

(At six in the morning)
And the traffic lights turn red, Madrid's evil eye
(At six in the morning)
And those who never have anything to dream shave
(At six in the morning)