[00:00.00]Alone (Heaton/Rotheray)
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[00:00.52]Like the contents of your handbag
[00:03.21]You don't know why it's there
[00:05.44]People ask you where you're heading
[00:07.81]You just answer "anywhere"
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[00:10.14]We don't mean to be this vague
[00:12.71]It just happens that we are
[00:14.84]No-one asked us to elaborate
[00:17.15]We just shrug our shoulders and be
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[00:23.84]And like the stories that just happened
[00:26.34]No-one thought of, no-one planned
[00:28.90]We could have ruled, we could have conquered
[00:31.33]Then we could have been a man
[00:33.24]
[00:33.30]We could be ex-husband
[00:35.78]We could be ex-wife
[00:38.02]But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life
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[00:42.79]Alone, alone
[00:48.14]Half an hour is seven hours
[00:50.28]One day is several months
[00:52.27]Alone, alone
[00:57.15]A month is a calendar
[00:59.63]A year can be a decade spent
[01:02.15]Alone
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[01:06.43]He knows "hello" in eighteen languages
[01:08.96]"I love you" in only one
[01:11.21]By the time he's got his phrase-book
[01:13.46]The chance is usually gone
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[01:15.89]And we feel ourselves quite prepared
[01:18.30]But quite prepared for what
[01:20.71]We always took the lead
[01:22.59]Before we actually knew the plot
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[01:29.52]And you can tell where we've been shopping
[01:32.46]By the bags beneath our eyes
[01:34.77]Make-up shoulders burden
[01:37.11]But the smile never lies
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[01:39.14]We could be ex-husband
[01:41.59]We could be ex-wife
[01:43.80]But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life
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[01:48.55]Alone, alone
[01:53.78]Half an hour is seven hours
[01:56.03]One day is several months
[01:57.90]Alone, alone
[02:03.09]A month is a calendar
[02:05.34]A year can be a decade spent
[02:07.90]Alone
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[02:12.43]So empty at the airport
[02:14.84]You don't set off the doors
[02:17.15]We used to feel like chorus girls
[02:19.44]And now we feel like whores
[02:21.79]
[02:21.80]Hearts built like reservoirs
[02:24.21]Words built like dams
[02:26.59]Thoughts built like juggernauts
[02:29.00]Our actions built like prams
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[02:35.19]And when the wind blows into our face
[02:38.18]We should be warmer and not colder
[02:40.65]Well, what price the charges
[02:42.65]On this cargo that we shoulder
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[02:45.08]We could be ex-husband
[02:47.46]We could be ex-wife
[02:49.59]But no-one looks at the menu in a greasy spoon life
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[02:54.43]Alone, alone
[02:59.65]Half an hour is seven hours
[03:01.90]One day is several months
[03:03.82]Alone, alone
[03:08.90]A month is a calendar
[03:11.21]A year can be a decade spent
[03:13.83]Alone
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[03:18.11]And we only smoke when bored
[03:20.63]So we do two packs a day
[03:23.18]And we've lost the difference
[03:25.78]Between bored and lonely anyway
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[03:51.73]Alone, alone
[04:01.20]Alone, alone
[04:10.63]Alone, alone
[04:19.91]Alone, alone
[04:29.45]Alone, alone
[04:38.82]Alone, alone
[04:48.20]Alone, alone
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