Can't place attachment To such a contraption At such an early hour In such a desperate state I won't rest on promises Or guarantees or contracts That don't lend any power Or influence to fate This device may make The vulnerable visible And the complex simple Blast delusions of grandeur Out of the sky But the result is a sleep on the floor With a bottle of wine And i, and i, and i Thinks he's probably not as clever as he thinks he is Five pm, bright idea, sitting on the fence like a schoolboy waiting For his father to come home Sitting on that plane getting cheated out of thursday And all because of the laws about time and space Across the aisle his tie wrapped round his neck Arms wrapped round a briefcase Like it's something or someone more important And all the excitement You can see the comet from here You can see anything you wanna see Magnified 500 times I only wanna see you But there's a comet blocking my view You know we're probably not as clever as we think we are Five pm, bright idea, sitting on the fence like a schoolboy waiting For his father to come home He must have fallen asleep on the train Must have missed his stop I know you and you know me But i've got a telescope now and it's all that i need It's all that i need (x2) You're all that i need All that i need Five pm, bright idea, sitting on the fence like a schoolboy waiting For his father to come home He must have fallen asleep on the train Must have missed his stop I know you and you know me But i've got a telescope now and it's all that i need It's all that i need (x2) I can see You're all that i need All that i need