[Verse 1]
Sobriety breeds sincerity, and Lydia Pond she is my gravity
I don't know how she felt when she took that E
But in the morning she shaking, she was twitching, she was jerking
Oh, June the 5th she moved to Paris
She could not stand the state of British politics
And I just can't convince her that I'm socialist
And every night I pray for mail in the morning
[Chorus]
Sweet Lydia Pond is doing it for me
And I want to sing a hymn for the postal service
Sinful and proud since I stopped sleeping around
I'm so faithful now to Lydia's handwriting
That it makes me guess the circumstances under which she wrote it
Why she used the f-word when she never, ever spoke it
She pasted on a passport photo of herself in pigtails
And underneath she'd written "did my touch make you less lonely?"
[Verse 2]
Oh she promised me that we'd be creasing sheets
And that our bodies would be bruising, wrestling underneath
And I wanted to ask her how she cut her teeth
And why she let time slip through her skinny, skinny fingers
[Chorus]
Oh, sweet Lydia Pond is doing it for me
And I want to sing a hymn for the postal service
Sinful and proud since I stopped sleeping around
I'm so faithful now to Lydia's handwriting
That it makes me guess the circumstances under which she wrote it
Why she used the f-word when she never, ever spoke it
She pasted on a passport photo of herself in pigtails
And underneath she'd written
And underneath she'd written "did my touch make you less lonely?"
