Round My Skull

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Woke up at four with a head full of horns

A duduk is wailing somewhere in my brain

One thought says I'm fine

Another one swears that the walls are all closing

Taiko drums pounding behind my own eyes

A bansuri whistles a lie through my teeth

I chase every one of them down the hall

They slip out the door and they circle right back

Chorus

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Round my skull

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Never sitting still

Post-Chorus

Round and round and round

Round and round and round

Verse 2

I tied one to a chair and I questioned it twice

It laughed like a gypsy guitar gone wrong

Frame drum is rattling under my ribs

Tom-toms are rolling a funeral song

I told the whole lot of them sit down and behave

They scattered like roaches when I hit the light

One's in the attic one's under the stairs

One keeps on screaming my name through the night

Chorus

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Round my skull

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Never sitting still

Post-Chorus

Round and round and round

Round and round and round

Bridge

Now the horns come in

Brass and bone and fire

Every little worry gets a violin

Every little whisper gets a choir

Round my skull

Round my skull

Chorus

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Round my skull

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Never sitting still

Post-Chorus

Round and round and round

Round and round and round

Instrumental Break

Chorus

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Round my skull

Thoughts keep marching round my skull

Never sitting still

Post-Chorus

Round and round and round

Round and round and round