Been climbing trees I've skinned my knees
My hands are black the sun is going down
She scruffs my hair in the kitchen steam
She's listening to the dream I weaved today
Crosswords through the bathroom door
While someone sings the theme-tune to the news
And my sister buzzes through
The room leaving perfume in the air
And that's what triggered this
I come back here from time to time
I shelter here some days
A high-back chair  He sits and stares
A thousand yards and whistles
Marching-band
Kneeling by and speaking up
He reaches out and I take a
Massive hand  Disjointed tales
That flit between short trousers
And a full dress uniform
And he talks of people ten years
Gone like I've known them all my life
Like scattered black 'n' whites
I come back here from time to time
I shelter here somedays
I come back here from time to time
I shelter here somedays