Cornerstone lyrics

I thought I saw you in the Battleship

but it was only a look alike

She was nothing but a vision trick,

Under the warning light.

She was close,

close enough to be your ghost,

But my chances turned to toast

When I asked her if

I could call her your name.

I thought I saw you in the rusty hook,

Huddled up in a wicker chair

I wandered over for a closer look

And kissed whoever was sitting there.

She was close,

And she held me very tightly

Till I asked awfully politely,

please can I call you her name?

And I elongated my lift home,

yeah I let him go the long way round

I smelt your scent in the seat belt

And kept my short cuts to myself.

I thought I saw you in the parrot's beak

Messing with the smoke alarm

It was too loud for me to hear her speak

And she had a broken arm.

It was close, so close that

the walls were wet

And she wrote it out in letter set,

no, you can't call me her name!

Tell me where’s your hiding place,

I'm worried I'll forget your face.

And I've asked everyone

And I'm beginning to think

I imagined you all along.

I elongated my lift home.

Yeah I let him go the long way round

I smelt your scent on the seat belt,

And kept my short cuts to myself.

I saw your sister in the cornerstone

on the phone to the middle man

When I saw that she was on her own

I thought she might understand

She was close,

well you couldn't get much closer,

She said: I’m really not supposed to but yes,

You can call me anything you want.

• Artist:Arctic Monkeys
• Album:Humbug (2009)