[00:28.032]I watch the park quieten from the hotel window
[00:30.541]I hear you softly sleep amongst the cars and saluting songbirds
[00:35.312]For a city whose size had scared me for years
[00:37.928]Right now it's a feeble evening row
[00:40.281]Not un-similar to a beach evening ending
[00:43.928]On the table to my left there's a magazine with a picture of dead monkey
[00:47.793]Making a mockery of what I'd call art
[00:50.104]But what would I know about the scene in the city
[00:52.770]That has swallowed up friends, lovers and family
[00:56.009]Just give me a village the size of a teacup
[00:59.208]You're happier here spread out with your eyes closed
[01:02.497]I feel I should order a drink in celebration to welcome the summer
[01:06.088]Whose first day is ending
[01:07.889]Should you wake you'd catch me of course
[01:10.323]And ask me the wisdom of drinking once more
[01:23.833]I cast me mind back to yesterdays wedding
[01:26.422]Where we got drunk and fell over
[01:28.865]I did my best to be polite to a family I'd never met
[01:31.584]But on numerous occasions, I guess, I could have tried harder
[01:35.401]Of course by the end of the night
[01:36.781]I was a best friend with everyone and every ones wife
[01:40.024]But right now I couldn't remember their names
[01:41.916]No matter how hard I try
[01:45.036]As the sun glares through the hotel window
[01:46.912]I wonder of our future and where it will lead to
[01:49.816]I wonder if you'll be laying there
[01:51.137]10 years 20 years 30 years down the line
[01:54.705]I'll still be staring out at the street confused about love and life
[01:59.540]It'll be interesting to see if anyone ever bought those songs of mine
[02:03.136]If anyone heard those words that I never got quite right
[02:07.800]I think I can be honest in presuming
[02:10.113]The world is not exactly going to be leaping out its bed
[02:12.993]To make me rich using my songs in adverts
[02:16.136]Selling oranges or lemons
[02:23.938]Who knows I may end up owning the whole street
[02:26.256]Or more likely sleeping under tree in the park opposite
[02:30.049]Would the runners keep me awake
[02:31.536]Or would I keep them asleep
[02:33.456]I'd hope I have the sense to move back home
[02:35.779]As lovely as today is
[02:37.536]I'd imagine the winter would be rather cold
[02:40.697]I'd been told for years that the devil had the best tunes
[02:43.561]And that the devil lived down here
[02:45.560]Whereas us country folk weren't worth the salt from the road
[02:48.852]Ex pat magazine editors who choose to loose their temper
[02:52.380]On the easily persuaded northern town dwellers
[02:55.601]And sure enough 99 percent of the people I meet
[02:58.097]Have scant regard for entertaining me
[03:00.380]It seems I'm too old too slow too quiet and just wrong
[03:04.680]And I'm glad
[03:06.314]In their c*****e fuelled electronic cabarets
[03:09.112]I'll be the man at the bar drinking overpriced whiskey
[03:12.297]From a bar maid who's to good to catch my eye
[03:15.337]She only works here two nights a week
[03:17.634]The rest of the time she's a singer in a rock and roll band
[03:22.104]I bet she'd change her tune
[03:23.672]If I told her my album had peaked at number 172
[03:28.704]And that I also had friends who worked in bars
[03:31.410]And that didn't define who they are
[03:33.745]Though it certainly helps their capacity to drink
[03:37.777]But I've strayed off the subject
[03:39.248]Now I'll be leaning over and waking you up
[03:42.385]And you'll squint at me through the cracks between your eyelids
[03:45.345]Woozy with cider
[03:47.313]As if you're asking exactly where we are
[03:50.041]And exactly what I wanted
[03:52.331]And I'll be happy because
[03:54.026]We won't be taking anything too seriously