You haven't seen the real life Until all your dreams have been realised I come from somewhere I'm going somewhere else And if the landlord wants me out
Heaven's confetti pelts down We're scattered like a toppled chess board There's a biblical queue for the money machine And a stampede spat out the drugstore
There are so many hours in the day I know I've got work to do but hey My will to move, or even use my brain Is weathered by the eternal english rain And
In a dream-tinted flicker of light I threw my guitar into the sea The world's as quiet as a library All the planet's creatures are asleep Eve slowly falls
Wendy wonders why I've been so cold Wendy wonders why we take it slow These cobbled streets Lead up to under sheets of gold Where fair sanity dictates
I'm a rogue, saint and a scoundrel I terminate at Bethnal Green I'd shake hands with the devil To get where I want to be Because I feel my soul Swell
Did you drop a clanger? A spanner in the works Did it all pour out the wrong way? Bent out of shape Through the Chinese whispers Oh Clarence I do believe
The street glistens like the stars in the sky The frost christens every car that drives by And then I know Those old black and white movies were true
Well, that wasn't very nice of you Things aren't so glossy Without a posse Oh deary dear I've no business being here Well now as I bow out At the funeral
You were dancing like a dying matador Amongst an armada of four-by-fours We were running in the morning from the land of Lego Fugitives of Rainbow Road
Your little sister's very pretty And your dad works up the city And it's not the first time That a boy like me has rhymed those words So I thought I'd
I'm gonna play my card I'm gonna walk the nine yards I'm gonna scribble in the dates in my diary I got a body in the trunk I gotta never ever get this
Vela, don't blow away The harbour's out of sight You're not the farthest point of light So shine your wondrous cosmic kite Vela triangulates positions
Did your lucky numbers arrive In the roll of the dice In the fire of your eyes where there once was love I heard they kicked you out to the back road
Black cap, snapping at the heels of the ladies Rushing, windswept hair and scarves waving Big Issue man threw a salvation by a penny Please give what
I climbed up the dizzy heights Just me, and the moon in an empty sky The tiny cars, and trucks, and fairy lights As if the stars never learned how to
I met a mixer He talked the head off my throat He was built for the mountains But lived in a shoebox in Soho Strange as it sounds I didn't want dear motor
Bravo, Encore all the ravers are still raving Game over, High scare so type your name in A perfume scented centipede We walk the same streets at the same
