Things We Should Have Left on the Beach - Johnny Foreigner

I think it started when you told me you’d miss me

Finally slept and dreamt of what could be

Woke up intertwined with each other

Promises held and broken forever

And what we build on the beach

We will lose to the sea

Stay close, how it’s never a question

And all our best memories can never be mentioned

Does he know my name, what did he say?

Are we down, are we down to a message a day?

Holiday romances make for terrible friends

Make terrible friends, make terrible friends!

And as the wind whips round yr adopted town

What you sacrifice for stable only drags you down

Lovers and conspirators make terrible friends

Make terrible friends, make terrible friends!

Dear jon, i fell in love with yr girlfriend, (oh no!)

I’m sorry it happened but i’m not sorry i’ve fallen

Take heart for i make weak competition

All 90s teen movies and naive ambition

And what we build on the beach

We will lose to the sea

Stay close oh how loaded a question

You’ve plenty of friends but you don’t watch them undressing

Does he know my name, what did he say?

Are we down, are we down to a message a day?

Holiday romances make for terrible friends

Make terrible friends, make terrible friends!

And as the wind whips round yr adopted town

What you sacrifice for stable only drags you down

Lovers and conspirators make terrible friends

Make terrible friends, make terrible friends!

And what we build in our hearts we will not lose to the sea

I’m pretty sure yr forgetting me (oh no!)

But i worked it out: the last however many months of fleeting friendships,

goodnights and good nights, on that beach under those stars i would have

spilled everything to the first pretty face i fell across.

and, at least i

picked the prettiest

Does he know my name, what did he say?

Are we down, are we down to a message a day?

Holiday romances make for terrible friends

Make terrible friends, make terrible friends!

And as the wind whips round yr adopted town

What you sacrifice for stable only drags you down

Lovers and conspirators make terrible friends

Make terrible friends, make terrible friends!

(how was that?)