As It Is When It Was - New Order

I’ve kept my head against the wall

I’ve been this way for so long now

You weren’t exactly falling over yourself

When last I saw you

Well I always thought

We’d get along like a house on fire

Until you told me that I’d have to go How can someone like you work that slow

Whatever you think of me You listen hard and I will make you see

Whatever you think of me You listen hard and I will make you see

I don’t feel anything no more

The staid up graces consuming me

I’m not grown up and I am not a boy

I feel no pain and I feel no joy

Well I always thought

We’d get along like a house on fire

In those days when the sun was warm

I ran in the street where I was born

Whatever you think of me You listen hard and I will make you see

Whatever you think of me You listen hard and I will make you see

The streets are so empty at this time of night

I’d rather walk on my own than fly

In a world where I’d forgotten you

I found myself forgotten, too

That’s the danger of your evil books

And all the lies of those thieves and crooks

We sing it’s our natural selves

I’ve not found it stolen but I had to prepare for you