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This is London, the place where you're a god or a disgrace |
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The whole wide world at your feet to see the look upon your face |
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And you watch the BBC and you think, "Well, what if that was me?" |
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Such a promising life to waste. |
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You told me, "Just be brave. Remember all the gifts you gave. |
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And how you felt like you were saved, |
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Like you were singing from beyond the grave." |
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And you said you'd wait for me until the day I could sing on key |
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"There's just something about your face." |
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Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me, |
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And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me, |
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Like we were home again... |
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There was just no way to know what was real and what was show |
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A future unfolding before my eyes, and a past that I could not let go |
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And how the feeling is so deep |
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when you're running down the London streets |
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Like there's nowhere left to go. |
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Among the faceless dizzy whores, the unimaginable bores, |
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Evenings stumbling from the pub, mornings shivering on the floor |
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Then the careless way you say, "Yeah, we were just glad we got to play." |
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When you're empty to the core. |
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Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me, |
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And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me, |
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Like we were home again. |
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I'm so tired of the rain. |
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This is London, the place where you get lost without a trace |
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Among the beautiful remains of this shattered human race |
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All the words that go unsaid, all the sacrifices of the dead, |
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"We'll fall quietly into the past or we'll just burn the streets instead" |
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In the clamoring of the crowd, you think, "I'll just stay quiet, instead." |
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All the fallen dizzy angels crawling through the street, |
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The pleas of people weary on their feet, |
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And you're half a world away from me, |
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As the clouds drown the light. |
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I wonder where you are tonight. |