[00:14.73]This is London, the place where you're a god or a disgrace
[00:19.46]The whole wide world at your feet to see the look upon your face
[00:23.85]And you watch the BBC and you think, "Well, what if that was me?"
[00:29.38]Such a promising life to waste.
[00:36.29]You told me, "Just be brave. Remember all the gifts you gave.
[00:40.05]And how you felt like you were saved,
[00:42.54]Like you were singing from beyond the grave."
[00:45.28]And you said you'd wait for me until the day I could sing on key
[00:50.37]"There's just something about your face."
[00:56.23]Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me,
[01:03.81]And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me,
[01:10.76]Like we were home again...
[01:21.58]
[01:26.49]There was just no way to know what was real and what was show
[01:31.53]A future unfolding before my eyes, and a past that I could not let go
[01:35.74]And how the feeling is so deep
[01:38.11]when you're running down the London streets
[01:40.86]Like there's nowhere left to go.
[01:47.29]Among the faceless dizzy whores, the unimaginable bores,
[01:52.21]Evenings stumbling from the pub, mornings shivering on the floor
[01:56.64]Then the careless way you say, "Yeah, we were just glad we got to play."
[02:01.73]When you're empty to the core.
[02:08.53]Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me,
[02:15.72]And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me,
[02:22.96]Like we were home again.
[02:28.44]I'm so tired of the rain.
[02:54.65]This is London, the place where you get lost without a trace
[02:58.94]Among the beautiful remains of this shattered human race
[03:03.58]All the words that go unsaid, all the sacrifices of the dead,
[03:08.38]"We'll fall quietly into the past or we'll just burn the streets instead"
[03:13.25]In the clamoring of the crowd, you think, "I'll just stay quiet, instead."
[03:24.78]All the fallen dizzy angels crawling through the street,
[03:31.85]The pleas of people weary on their feet,
[03:36.01]And you're half a world away from me,
[03:38.87]As the clouds drown the light.
[03:43.91]I wonder where you are tonight.