Building as Foreign -

How we ended up here with the start we had amazes me

From humble backyard brawl

And smiles to zero on the gages

Those tea leaves, a paper straw, a nylon fumble

A shaky jaw

Coz we wore boots and football strips

Some strange clothes for a first kiss

And I’ll point out the signs

The ones that people that don’t know

Don’t care a jot for

Double hedges, a single shop

That square of grass that we wrestled on

I love to come back;

it’s making me tall

But when I get there there’s nothing at all

Owned the foundations and brick by brick

You built a home for a family

All those coats on the stand

Like a cluster of people hand in hand

Hang at odds with the sods who inhabit them

We marked our heights by the door

And sat the read-through in that september storm

Sadder still to return each winter hoping to find

Something more than a building full of strangers

The living room soaked up more tears

Than it’s had conversations

I love to come back it’s making me tall

But when I get there there’s nothing at all

Owned the foundations and brick by brick

You built a home for a family, oh

I love to come back it’s making me tall

But when I get there there’s nothing at all

Fly past the red bricks in double time

To find a building as foreign as if it never was mine

Heartbeat rises as I go down

Down to that beacon in the open ground

A wreckage

Heartbeat rises and no surprise

That we’ve got hunger in your open eyes

You’ll be glad that you came

Heartbeat rises as I go down

Down to that beacon in the open ground

A wreckage

Heartbeat rises and no surprise

That we’ve got hunger in your open eyes

You’ll be glad that you came

Heartbeat rises as I go down

Down to that beacon in the open ground

A wreckage

Heartbeat rises