I wonder if I'll ever see those places from the photos in the box

Will I ever walk those streets again?

And will I ever see the faces of the people that I love?

And put my arms around them... without fear... without guilt

"Bridges and rivers, buildings pulled down"*

Only superficial changes to the old Yorkshire town

And old people raise their eyes to the hills

For a break in the weather, for a sign that nothing has to change!

Nothing ever happened here -

Everything goes back to normal!

Nosacrifice is due!

And if you read the right pundit

Anything you want to be... is true

(And prepares the path for blame)

I look at Steve and Jonas by the van on one morning in July

Setting off into the great unknown

We'd do a gig and not get paid in a backwater German town

And somehow fall asleep with the thought of a job well done

I mean.. God... it was so much fun!

Up and down the street for hours... we can’t find the hotel

Luke says "if they put up a sign, they'd probably do well"

Fivefriends who just can't meet any more

Expanded to millions... behind every door there's a story

Because nothing ever changed!

Everything goes back to normal!

Nothing ever happened here,

Nothing ever was for granted It's all recanted now!

Everything goes back to normal!

Nothing ever happened here,

Nothing ever was forever - it's hard to sever

And those guys are still there, lost in their van

In an old box of photos I get out when I can

But I've got a feeling... and the feeling is good!

I'll take my pencil and put a ring on the calendar

"Well get an album out in 2022"

And suddenly we've got a purpose, some reason for going on

'Cos all this time left at home needs a song... and now it's come!

Turns out, that lady my kids used to like was right! Really!.. Honestly!

"THE ONLY WAY IS UP"... (baby)*

"Ah, look at all the lonely people" *

Behind every "thumbs up" behind every "like"

Behind every curtain, behind every mic.

Misrepresentation and bias and hate

Amid social isolation... who could carry that weight?

We've spent our lives living in room 101

Let's not go back there this time... let's try to make a change

Let's make something happen here!

Gonna need a Lot Of Love to get Net Zero Hate

Gonna need a Lot Of Love - this imbalance cannot wait!

Gonna need a Lot Of Love!

'Cos I've been free these 60 years, will Luke and Theo do the same?

Will Steve and Jonas be foreigners in the New World Power Game?

I wonder if we ever really need to just go back to "once before"

Did we take away anything?

It was a world as ruled by tyrants, then we handed it to fools

We're disappointed. But never surprised.

The story's in our eyes

Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Dads

Supporters on the terraces waving Leeds United flags

The old people remember what went before

It's not time for nostalgia, the future's holding a door

Let's go through!

Let's make something happen here!

Let's not just go back to normal!

Let's make something change

Let's start to see the World around us and hope it can ground us now

Let's not just go back to normal!

Let's make something happen here!

'Cos in the meantime...

Those guys are still there, lost in their van

In an old box of photos I get out when I can

Lyrics by Andy Tillison except

* Verbatim quotes from "Adventures in A Yorkshire Landscape" by Bill Nelson/Be Bop Deluxe,

"The Only Way is Up" by Yazz and The Plastic Population,

"Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)