Where I Started Lyrics

It was everything you’d hope for at the start of the dayEvery feeling you’d want that words would not conveyI heard all my favourite numbersAnd all my favourite namesAnd I coul...Read Full Lyrics

Have you been drinking?’Cause it’s not too late to startThere’s still a weekBefore they come and pull the place apartAnd I was thinkingI have sorrows to be drownedToo complet...Read Full Lyrics

Darling roll the window downI can't breatheAnd I want to feel the northerly down my sleeveI love a sunburnt elbow pointing to the seaAnd, darling, can't you find us something on th...Read Full Lyrics

Here’s me in 1981Squinting into a sinking sunAnkle-deep in the PacificIn the foreground are my friendsGrinning madly at the lensThey look heliolithicAgain in 1993A Polaroid you t...Read Full Lyrics

Here comes the blow-in againBlowing kisses from the doorwayDon’t just stand there, let him inWe want to hear some of his storiesWe’re the people that he knowsWhen there’s now...Read Full Lyrics

It’s already FridayAnd soon it’ll be Friday nightAnd if you’ve got something plannedI suppose I’ll understandBut give me half an hourAnd I’ll meet you in the gardensI’l...Read Full Lyrics

Every second Saturday it’s off to Wormwood ScrubsTo sit within six inches of the man she lovesThe visit’s twenty minutesBut it’s a whole day on the busPresses her fingers to ...Read Full Lyrics

Around here the roofs are redderAnd the houses are closer togetherBut the people are further apartAnd it doesn’t ever really get darkI bury myself in booksI’m very good at murd...Read Full Lyrics

I must admit I find it funnyBut I might have known she’d find it dumbThe air hostess and the blow-up dummyI’m in stitches and she’s twiddling her thumbsShe hasn’t laughed o...Read Full Lyrics

Your dad’s proud face is glowingHe recommends we buy goggles and flagsAll aboard and don’t forget your bagsLet’s leave this place behindAnd I didn’t get you a presentBut yo...Read Full Lyrics