The Jane Austen Argument - Maintain The Madness lyrics

rate me

I went to New York and paid lots of money

To stay in the silence and not play for anyone

I picked up a bar tab and drank myself stupid

I flirted with strangers just to feel attractive

I stood on a rooftop pulled into the skyline

The clouds started rolling as I started to say

Goodbye to my grandfather who’s at home dying

The rain started in and I was left crying

I’ve got to maintain the madness

Just so the stillness makes sense to me

And I’ve got to keep the momentum

Rolling along so that no one can stop me

No one can drag me

Home

And I went to San Francisco with my best friend

To sing in a bar full of gay men who wanted me

But they did not know me, though they thought I sang pretty

I made love to the microphone so they would not feel so empty inside

On this wintery night

In this city of madmen and loners and stoners and lovers forgotten in favour of rotten misfortunes with money,

but I still went home alone

I’ve got to maintain the madness

Just so the stillness makes sense to me

And I’ve got to keep the momentum

Rolling along so that no one can stop me

No one can drag me

Home

But now I’m here in Boston

In love with downtown crossings

And in this very room where some of my favourite songs have been written

I’m writing this one to sing and remember these days in December

I have surrendered

I’m not pretending to stay still,

To stay still

And so next week I’ll go to Iceland

But then on to London

And into the arms of my favourite strangers

But then onwards cos I cannot, I will not, I will not

I cannot, I cannot, I will not, I will not

I cannot, I will never stop

Oh I’m maintaining the madness just so the stillness makes sense to me

And I've got to keep the momentum

Rolling along so that no one can stop me

No one can drag me

Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho home

Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho home

Home

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Thanks to Nikki for correcting these lyrics