[Intro: fast minor key la pompe guitars, a violin slides up like a creaking door] [Verse 1] You left me on a Tuesday with a note stuck to the kettle Said you needed room to grow, said I made you feel unsettled I stood there in the doorway and I said two words, you'll see And you laughed the whole way down the stairs like you'd been set free [Verse 2] Then your car got clamped on Thursday on the street you always park Then the bank froze up your card for a bill you swore you paid in March Every plant you ever bought went brown and gave up on the sill And the new girl saw your bathroom, and she's runnin' from it still You forgot your mammy's birthday, and she rang me up in tears And the dentist sent a letter that's been chasin' you for years [Pre-Chorus: guitars build, then stop dead] Now it's Halloween, the bangers poppin' all along the quays And you're on my step at nine o'clock, down on both your knees Sayin', lift it, lift it, please [Chorus] I didn't lift a finger Not a candle, not a pin I didn't lift a finger, love So look at the state you're in That's not a curse, that's not a hex That's just you without me, love, so what comes next [Verse 3: the band drops to bass and one guitar] Who do you think paid the parking? Who renewed the motor tax? Who watered every fern you bought and turned 'em to the sun and back? Who rang your mammy every birthday and signed the card with your name? Who set your seven alarms and found your keys and took the blame? Seven years I lifted every finger that I had Then I put my hands in my pockets, and your whole life went bad [Pre-Chorus: guitars build, then stop dead] Now the bonfire smoke is rollin' low along the whole street And you've got a bag of salt and a candle, kneelin' at my feet Sayin', lift it, lift it, please [Chorus] I didn't lift a finger Not a candle, not a pin I didn't lift a finger, love So look at the state you're in That's not a curse, that's not a hex That's just you without me, love, so what comes next [Instrumental: violin and lead guitar trade a short wicked solo] [Bridge: band drops to violin and upright bass] [Spoken male, weary] Just undo it. Please. Whatever you did [Female, sung slow] There's nothin' to undo, love There's nothin' in a jar There's no doll with your face on There's only who you are [Final Chorus: full band, handclaps] I didn't lift a finger Not a candle, not a pin Just the one to point you off the step 'Cause the little ones want in That's not a curse, that's not a hex There's a little Dracula behind you, love, and he's next [Outro: violin trill, guitars stop on one dark chord] Next
