The Swell/like Neverwhere - Johnny Foreigner

(You got yourself a whole new life and all i’ve got is half this old one

In a whisper disguised as a snowflake, I wish to be remembered to you in a

whisper, like a snowflake

I wish to be remembered to you

Beat the living cities out of me and spoilt my progress and let me be

This year it’s taxes and I can see its going to be a long one

You’ve got a face for this and drawers for eyes

You slipped through our last kiss, and I can see its going to be a long one

She’s beginning to take on water and she’s beginning on this years taxes

She’s beginning to listen to what I tell her

She’s picking up and going backwards to the beginning

She is hunting for the right words in white dresses like I heard you say it the

first time

Like I got no reason to be kind now but it ate a hole in my heart and now

you’re leaning over to turn the radio up

I stay out on your estate house

This year it’s Texas

She’s hunting for the right words but I dont want to know.)

The girls who turned us down in nightclubs

Are now pushing prams around the city centre

And they swear it’s now over

Well, it sure looks over from here

Would you believe our skyline’s stolen

Trail the queues and you’ll know no one

Say there’s more to giving up than another burnt-out club

And those glazed eyes!

Balconies, housewarming season

Hung with the scene girls, mostly freezing

She said it looks a little like Brooklyn, and I just laughed

I thought you’d given it up

(Oh how it’s never enough)

How you know you’re getting old when you’re happy to be getting old

And those glazed eyes!

That’s when I got kind of bored

Swam out of the bills

And oved abroad

It gets kinda blurred

But my legs got burned in the bare sun

The burns got covered in bites

And all those public fights were too much

Those glazed eyes

I miss you at 19 getting ID’d and angry

I miss you at 19 staring out Digbeth High Street