Lyrics

Bonnie

I had a dream that you were on an oilrig in the sea
Standing on the landing blowing kisses back to me
I was leagues and leagues from you and shouting from the shore
But then I hovered over you, and this is what I saw

A target on the helipad, a bird?s eye view of you
I can see your bald patch dear, I love you through and through
Great waves are rising all around, the wind is howling fierce
You?re frail as a matchstick man, my lovesick heart is pierced

Existence on the oilrig is a lonely one for you
A life of men and only men is bound to make you blue
You while away your free time with brick-shade cups of tea
And games of cards and petty fights and some pornography

chorus
Bring back, oh bring back, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, oh bring back, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me

It?s like a James Bond movie, except without the guns
You?re like your workmates, all like ants, a mass that moves as one
Toiling in your boiler suits for oil that must be mined
Plundered from the slumbers of the seabed under brine

An Alcatraz whose prisoners are paid a weekly wage
A fortress against nature, a scaffold or a cage
Which endless plains of steel grey sea surround on every side
I want to free you from this trap, but freedom?s dream has died

Last night I lay on my pillow, this dream inside a dream
Last night I lay on my bed, such visions in my head
Last night I lay on my pillow, stifling a scream
I dreamt that my Bonnie was dead, yes you my love were dead

chorus
Bring back, oh bring back, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, oh bring back, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me