I'm the limp in your gait and the way you hold a pen When you walk my footsteps echo like an unfinished sentence I'm the way you say your “oh's”, I'm your neatly folded clothes You can catch me looking back out from the corner of your eye If we had the time I would show you what I could never say I tried my best to hide it, but you're left with the mess of my mistakes So you try to shake the weight, carve a new path of your own Tear out every page that went before yours But you can't hide the line that curves round your smile Can you keep that for me? If we had the time I would show you what I could never say I tried my best to hide it, but you're left with the mess of my mistakes The mess of my mistakes And all the while we live through each other From host to host it travels with us We can't escape it, it's in our nature We're just pieces of something bigger Do you redden at their questions as they pull you to one side? Behind those gentle faces their eyes scrutinise For my limp in your gait, my line round your smile They'll frame you for every tell-tale sign If we had the time I would show you what I could never say I tried my best to hide it, but you're left with the mess of my mistakes The mess of my mistakes And all the while we live through each other From host to host it travels with us We can't escape it, it's in our nature We're just pieces of something bigger And all the while we live through each other From home to heartbreak it travels with us At times we bloom into a brighter colour But before long our time is over

Waking up in darkness It takes some time to realise where I am Unfamiliar corners My half-emptied suitcase on the floor Another year, another room With magnolia walls and fireproof doors I’ve given up on dreaming of something more It used to be fun, living in a dump Romanticising, talking big But years down the line it’s getting tired I thought I’d have moved on, instead I’ve just moved around I've just moved around I haven’t stayed still and yet I feel I’m stagnating It’s hard not to take it to heart I long for something solid underfoot So I can move on, move on Move on Shoulder to shoulder With a million other strangers From my little box I can hear straight through the walls Into other people’s lives, other people’s arguments Other people’s babies crying in the night And we’re all here alone together Playing musical houses And if this is a game I want my go again I want my future back in front of me Another year, another room With magnolia walls Draining the colour from it all I haven’t stayed still and yet I feel I’m stagnating It’s hard not to take it to heart I long for something solid underfoot So I can move on, move on Move on

With seconds to spare You hopped the last train Hid in the bathroom And you don't know her well But she said you could call If you needed And the calm was a shock You've had trouble sleeping since What if you're still there? So you always pack light In case you better run Don't get too close to anyone But I'd like you to stay for a while If you can, if you're alright with me I'd like you to stay for a while If you can, if you're alright with me With seconds to spare I find the right words to calm down The alarm bells in your head You've a right to be on guard When I tread too lightly We fall down the same trap When it hurts, when it hurts When it hurts, when it hurts Do you wanna run, do you wanna When it hurts I'd like you to stay for a while If you can, if you're alright with me I'd like you to stay for a while If you can, if you're alright with me

Rows on rows of houses, trail off into open fields Freeze frames in the window, glimpes of what might have been And every name they call of every little stop Between here and there is like a language I thought I'd forgot And as we pull close the feeling in me grows I wanna slow it down but my mind's already there Stepping off the train, no sign awaits Following the way back, my feet stutter and fail What did I expect, some fairytale kingdom Where you step out like the giant you are in my head Is this where it began, an ordinary town? Familiar as my palm but it all looks smaller now Is that all you've got? A weak handshake and hello I came fully armed But oh, the silence has me now Oh the silence has me now So look me in the eye, finally level with mine I've dreamed this moment over, but our words fall short What did I expect, some poetic reckoning Reckoning As you shrink to size, no longer looming tall I'm free to go so why do I feel I've lost? Is that all you've got? A weak handshake and hello I came fully armed But oh, the silence has me now Oh the silence has me now Oh the silence has me Is that all you've got? A weak handshake and hello I came fully armed But oh, the silence has me now Oh the silence has me now Oh the silence has me Rows on rows of houses Trail off into open fields

Winter nights draw in like a purse tightening I spend my evenings In the soft glow of the screen TV ads cast shadows on me I don’t dare dream anymore Cause waking up hurts more and more Ignore the call, the tug on my sleeve Pulling me back Who was that? Diving straight into the night Drunk on anything and everyone Squeezing every hour dry The journey home was a mission The next morning a blur, rushing to work Laughing at ourselves The future felt so open then The street calls out a name like yours I double take, wait at the window For a glimpse of us, instead My grey eyes stare back at me We drifted apart But do you feel it too when the year moves? And evenings sprawl ahead They're someone else’s playground now Who was that? Diving straight into the night Pouring words, spilling time Like it’d never run dry I want it again, I want it again The city a new territory And you running alongside me I want it again I want it again I want it again

Are those really my words You've carried with you? I was cruel Without thinking First a trickle, I dismissed as a dripping tap Then from under the door frame I see the carpet getting damp As the water rises, my stomach sinks And all the ugly truths I’d long stored away Float past in plain sight, mocking me I was so secure, sealed inside this brick and mortar Spotless surfaces, no trace of past mistakes Kidding myself into a dreamless sleep But it only took your letter And then it all came flooding in Are those really my words You’ve carried with you all these years I was cruel without thinking Does my ignorance still ring in your ears A rush of blood, I blush to remember The careless conversation you overheard Slamming doors, punching walls, your silent scream erupting My tongue tied, your red eyes, the unexpected hurt Up to my neck in this dirty water There’s nothing to gain from wallowing in blame, so I climb the stairs Sitting on the roof the streets below a strange canal With everybody stranded salvaging their prize possessions Sink beneath the surface, we’ve all got things we’d best forget Are those really my words you’ve carried with you I was cruel, now it’s me I need to forgive And I will keep this token to remind me That I was cruel, and I promise that I won’t forget this time I won’t forget

We piled out onto the street Our heads full of ourselves The sweat barely dry on our skin The noise in our ears still ringing as we Look ahead to the next thing Our dreams feed-back Loud until We sleep like babies on the backseat And how could I not look back? The sky's on fire It's just the smoke in my eyes Making the view seem blurry The motorway hums its lullaby There's only one way but I'm still Carrying all this weight It's heavier on my own It's heavier still As I turn to the empty passenger seat Reminded of something funny We did when we did it all in sync And I can't help but linger Passing our old turning The corner shop where we'd stock up That bit by the river we lay down our plans And how do you do it Travel light, look straight ahead While this weight in me Now my anchor, now my chain It's heavier still As I turn to the empty passenger seat Reminded of something funny We did when we did it all in sync It's heavier still As I turn to the empty passenger seat Reminded of something funny We did when we did it all in sync

Somewhere in the city you make your way home Hurtling through darkness towards, I don't know We make our own maps that fade as we go The same little places we to and fro A tiny club I've not been to before or since That night you were there Exchanging shy glances Reaching a fork in our roads and the question inherently posed Is it that time already? Is that it? Are we so tied up that we can't stray From the road that's laid out? Straight and narrow The never ending countdown to more of the same again Is that it? Are we so tied up That we can't stray from the road that's laid out? Straight and narrow. The never ending countdown To more of the same. Is it that time already? Behind one of these lights have you made it your own? Are you settling in for the night or were you just passing through We're all travelling in parallel Our eyes barely meet And as the night spills over into the morning And the hangovers rub shoulders with the yawning commuters I lose my train of thought Do I ever cross your mind? Is it that time already? Is that it? Are we so tied up that we can't stray From the road that's laid out? Straight and narrow The never ending countdown to more of the same again Is that it? Are we so tied up That we can't stray from the road that's laid out? Straight and narrow. The never ending countdown To more of the same. Is it that time already? Is that time already?

There's a wine stain on my pillow From when we sacked off work to drink in bed all day It makes me smile when I see it It makes me wanna do it all again And I'm stumbling down Yeah I'm circling around I'm stumbling down Yeah I'm circling around There's an old note in my pocket It's just a list we made to pack for a weekend And yeah I know that I should bin it But I can't bear to lose the last scraps of us And I'm stumbling down Yeah I'm circling around I'm stumbling down Yeah I'm circling around And around and around And around