Portastatic - The Soft Rewind lyrics

You held up the telescope Fat end to your eye And every day after was a catalogue Of how to see the world through a negative lie Pulled the horizon like a blanket over your head The sun was a rotting orange on a wobbly roll 'Til it stopped dead You called it a stunning sunset I called it the last of the good light And a perfect waste of the night Already upon us There was a point, I started barking like a dog My command of new languages did not impress you But the howling drew a crowd The view from your roof was obscured by the streetlights glowing red The cloud cover s**ed up the sound like a new quilt tucked tight in your bed You called it a stunning sunset I called it the last of the good light And a perfect waste of the night Coming down on us You said, "we can wait for sunrise" I don't have that kind of time And we left the wasted night Waiting for the soft rewind Until the voice said, "This is us" This is us