I was searching through the record section of a shop in Birmingham

Trying to forget the news

But you know how things sometimes are

The fates conspire to remind you

No Return was its title

No Return, like I'd said

No Return, those searing words burning in my head

I'd come across a compilation called Blues in a Minor Chord

As though you were there behind me

I turned it over to read the sleeve notes, credits and dates

And a chill came up my spine

No Return was its title

No Return, like you'd said

No Return, those piercing words tattooed in my head

And that said

The pain of being together is more than being apart

I've thought of you all December long and now it's a New Year start

The loneliness of walking by your side is more than walking alone

It's why I'm leaving

I let out a hollow howling, voluntarily

Like wind escaping from a tomb

I think they call it coincidence or something like déjà vu

You never believe it till it happens to you

No Return was its title

No Return, like we'd said

No Return, like icicles falling through our heads

And that said

The pain of being together is more than being apart

I've thought of you all December long and now it's a New Year start

The loneliness of walking by your side is more than walking alone

It's why I'm leaving

It's why I'm leaving

It's why I'm leaving