British Summertime - Everything But The Girl

Leaving at dawn to beat the traffic, do you remember that too?

Curled asleep on the back seat, do you remember that too?

The soundless dark, the empty road, do you remember that too?

And that child asleep, only eight years old, do you recognise as you?

June, July, September, stretched ahead and out of view

The whole world seemed a safe place, and never ending too

But it was never as simple as you thought, there were just things you never knew

And up ahead your parents bore the weight of all their worries and yours too

Windows down on the coast road, wanting to be first to see the sea

The whole world seemed a safe place, temporarily

But it was never as simple as you thought, and you found out as you grew

That up ahead your parents had borne the weight of all their worries and yours

too

All their worries and yours too