No Return - Brakes

I was searching through the record section

Of a shop in Birmingham

Trying to forget the news

But you know how things sometimes are

The fates conspire to

Remind you

'No Return' was its title

'No Return' like I’d said

'No Return', those searing words

Burning in my head

I’d come across a compilation

Called 'Blues in a Minor Chord'

As though you were there behind me

I’d turned it over to read the sleeve notes

Credits in a daze

And a chill came up my spine

'No Return' was its title

'No Return' like you’d said

'No Return', those piercing words

Tattered in my head

And I’d said

«The pain of being together

Is more than being apart»

I thought of you all December long

And now it’s a New Year’s start

«The loneliness of walking by your side

Is more than walking alone»

It’s why I’m leaving

I let out a hollow howling

Falling terribly

Like wind escaping from a tube

I think they call it coincidence

Or something like deja vu

You never believe it 'til it happens to you

'No Return' was its title

'No Return' like we’d said

'No Return', like icicles

Falling through our heads

And I’d said

«The pain of being together

Is more than being apart»

I thought of you all December long

And now it’s a New Year’s start

«The loneliness of walking by your side

Is more than walking alone»

It’s why I’m leaving

It’s why I’m leaving

It’s why I’m leaving

It’s why I’m leaving…