Here with time, we waste

Contaminants are like lost loose change

Swallowed whole by the smoke and the cold

Through the pipes, through the unmarked graves

Filled with city birds

Forgotten things and old mistakes

Here where the Sun won't shine, not the real one anyway

Not the Sun that once kissed us awake

For here there is no day, nobody sleeps

There's just the working week again, and again, and again

Would you leave with me?

If I asked you to try, could you say goodbye

To tube lines and concrete?

Would you ever leave?

If I went one day up the Thames to the hills

Would you follow me?

Here, we are thick-skinned, numb

Dead behind the eyes, look what we've become

Hardened and worn, forget what we came here for

I don't care, we don't care about anyone

This place was built to last

It wasn't built for love

Would you run away?

Walking, you and I, till the vertical lines

Morphed into landscapes

No, you'd rather stay

Be honest, my love, earth and I aren't enough

We can always leave this place

Mm, another day turns, I think that we should leave the city

I say it all the time, I say it all the time

Laid to rest into the grass when we are weathered and old

But now we stay striking the pavement for gold

Another day turns, I think that we should leave the city

Mm, I say it all the time, I say it all the time

Laid to rest into the grass when we are weathered and old

But now we stay striking the pavement for gold