i got a crush copy shop clerk but she won t look up at me don t want to be known as the freak who just comes around to catch her eye we could be sleeping in the flowers we could sleep all afternoon you d proclaim that you re an island i d proclaim that i m one too then we float into the harbor with just piers and boats around i declare that i am england you declare that i have drowned i got a ride home with a drunk guy how ungrateful i must have seemed he showed me how to spin my head round and round we could be sleeping in the flowers we could sleep all afternoon you d proclaim that you re an island i d proclaim that i m one too then we float into the harbor with just piers and boats around i declare that i am england you declare that i have drowned we ll be sleeping in the flowers tell my boss that i ve been fired we ll be sleeping in the flowers tell my boss i m fired