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I'm asleep on a train on the Zone 2 boundary |
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Awoken by the weary sigh of a ticket guy |
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Placating some 'young lady' by his side |
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I was late, I was tired and I lost my Oyster card |
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He's coming on with all this tired bureaucracy |
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When all I need is empathy and sleep |
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On the street nothing's changed since the 1990s |
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(You've changed, you're so much older) |
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Oh, I haven't changed since '99 |
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(Well I've seen your suit) |
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I've still got my paperround |
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When I get to my desk I'm a different person |
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(That's a conscious choice you made though) |
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I'll manage risks and strategies |
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(Is that enough?) |
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Yes, as long as I get paid |
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I'm a painter, always painting lies |
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It was all fine |
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Til a man in a street said that what you've done there is just |
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Cross the line |
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I've no desire to go too far and |
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Cross the line |
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Led astray by the city ways and |
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Cross the line |
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I don't know why but I always try for the last word |
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When you know the last word's mine |
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As a kid I would run through the fields and orchards |
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(What about your hayfever though?) |
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I'd climb the branches to the top |
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(What with your vertigo?) |
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Look I'm making all this up |
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I've a dream of a house with the perfect garden |
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(Yeah, you and a thousand of others) |
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The pebble dash and the crazy pave |
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(And a 4x4?) |
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Nah, we'd cycle every day |
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I'm a carpenter |
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Chip away at dreams |
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Til a bartender |
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Said that one of these days all your cycnical ways will just |
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Cross the line |
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I've no desire to go too far and |
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Cross the line |
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Led astray by the city ways and |
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Cross the line |
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I don't know why but I always try for the last word |
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When you know the last word's mine |
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I'd swap some sleep for a fixed emotion |
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A G&T and some suntan lotion |
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A bag of chips in a seaside coast town |
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An empty seat on the underground and |
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A basement club where there's space for dancing |
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A conversation that's life enhancing |
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A sudden twist that I'm not expecting |
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A novelette with a cryptic ending |
