Stornoway Album

Conkers shining on the ground,
The air is cooler
And I feel like I just started uni
Walking backwards to my van
You're at your window
And I'm tripping every time I think of

Lying in your attic
I can feel the static
The storm has broken, heavens open

Send my body out to work
But leave my senses
In orbit over south-east London
Wind the window down and pinch
Me on the shoulder
Else I'll be driving off to dream of

Lying in your attic
I can feel the static
The storm has broken, heavens open
So electrifying, oh I'm nearly flying
Lost my heart between the sheets of lightning

I've been singing you this song
Inside a bubble
Been Zorbing through the streets of Cowley
We were always meant to be,
Zorbing together, and I think it's high time we started

Lying in your attic
I can feel the static
The storm is breaking, windows shaking
So electrifying, oh I'm nearly flying
Lost my heart between the sheets of lightning

Lying in your attic
I can feel the static
The storm has broken, heavens open
So electrifying, oh I'm nearly flying
Lost my heart between the sheets of lightning

I caught the sun on my way home, my way home

I caught the sun on my way home, my way home
When I got lost in thinking
I missed the train on my way home, my way home

I missed the train on my way home, my way home
Cos I was still day dreaming

Oh and I need to know
(Lucy could you really be the one that I've been wishing on?)
Are you the one? Are you the one?
(Lucy I can't stop myself from wondering)
Yes I need to know
Are you the one I've been waiting for?
(Are you the one I've been waiting for?)

I saw you blink and I missed your eyes, your blue eyes
I saw you blink and I missed your eyes, your blue eyes
When we were talking upstairs

What would I see, if I looked in through the window?
What would I see, if I looked deep through the coloured glass,
In through the window

Oh and I need to know
(Lucy could you really be the one that I've been wishing on?)
Are you the one? Are you the one?
(Lucy I can't stop myself from wondering)
Yes I need to know
(Lucy could you really be the one that I've been wishing on?)
Are you the one I've been waiting for?
(Are you the one I've been waiting for?)

And I climbed up the hill, when I got home, when I got home
And I faced out towards you
What are you thinking over there?
Over there, what are you thinking over there?

Oh and I need to know
(Lucy could you really be the one that I've been wishing on?)
Are you the one? Are you the one?
(Lucy I can't stop myself from wondering)
Yes I need to know
(Lucy could you really be the one that I've been wishing on?)
Are you the one I've been waiting for?
(Are you the one I've been waiting for?)
So so long
(Are you the one i've been waiting for?)
So so long

Curled up in the back of the car
Nine years old you don't know where you are
And your head's on the window, your eyes are just closed
There's a voice in the front and a hush on the road
You're a passenger but your mind is travelling on.

Open your eyes and you're nine years older
Hands on the wheel and you're racing on over
To lie with your first love, you can't wait to see her
You borrowed the car and you think you're the driver
But now you're the passenger to your own heart
and it takes you travelling, travelling on.

When the morning broke and the sky fell down
It went black as night and the wind blew round
And stole your directions, you lost your way home
And you felt like a passenger left by the road
But I'll tell you the reason you couldn't get home
Cause there's nowhere you've been and it's nowhere you're going
Home is only a feeling you get in your mind
From the people you love and you travel beside
You may feel like a passenger but now you're the driver
You've got to go travelling, travelling on
Because if you break down, it's a cold, hard shoulder

So fuel up your mind and fire up your heart and drive on
Drive on, drive on
And when your days are darker, put your foot down harder
Drive on, drive on.

And it's nine more years you've been driving now
But tonight you're stumbling through your old town
You met up with a schoolfriend who's still just the same
And you talked all the same shit you talked in those days
And now you're drunk and you're sad for the old times passing you by
For there's no rewind so you might as well play while your time is rolling away
And get back on the road, it's a beautiful day
Pick up all the friends you can find on your way
And if you lose direction they'll be there guiding you on
Guiding you, guiding you on.
Because we're all going the same way down this long road
Yes, we're all bound the same way down this long, long road.

So fuel up your mind and fire up your heart and drive on
Drive on, drive on
And when your days are darker, put your foot down harder
Drive on
Fuel up, and drive on
Fuel up, and drive on
Drive on.

I am a seabird you are the arctic ocean
I know your seasons and your sanctuaries
And when I'm wheeling over your wild wide waters I know
There's nowhere else that I belong

I am a small town you are a tornado
And down the high street you tear into me
Bring down the power lines and you twist the heart right out of me
Leaving my outskirts devastated

And as you're going tears are flowing
'Cos while you're leaving I'm still believing

You are a memory I am the mind you enter
A single moment in a single bed
This is the feeling you are bringing back to me of when
I was on the coldharbour road

And now you're going tears are flowing
'Cos while you're leaving I'm still believing
All in the morning and my ears are ringing
As I lie wide awake on the living room floor

Waiting for a train
Going nowhere in a nowhere station
Staying up last night
Going nowhere with my trains all fought
Sleeping with your boy
Going nowhere in a long distance relation
Blinded of your senses
By the fear of unrequited love

Once more I woke up in the moonlight
Once more our paths crossed through the night
And a moment's hesitation
Your silent invocation
But you shielded me from your glow
Like a moth against your window
And I'm too shy to stop you in your tracks
Oh you leave me in the dark

Drifting in my boat
Going nowhere with my aspirations
You and me connected
Unexpected in our drifting thoughts
But you still see him
And I am sinking in the storm of separation
Blinded of my senses
By the fear of unrequited love

Once more I woke up in the moonlight
And twice more our paths crossed through the night
And a moment's hesitation
Your silent invocation
But you shielded me from your glow
Like a moth against your window
And I'm too shy to stop you in your tracks
Oh you leave me in the dark again
And I need someone
To stop me from drifting
It's getting late to be travelling

Destined to go nowhere
By the fear of unrequited love

Where are we goin' this fine morning?
What are we doin' this fine day?
We're doin' the same as ev'ry morning!

We're stayin' inside on this fine morning.
Stayin' inside on this fine day.
We'll stare at a screen, like ev'ry morning.

And outside the window, spring is here,
And we're gonna hibernate all year.
Under a pile of afore snowflakes.

Cause we're the new generation,
generation!
We are the battery human!

But we were born to be free range.
Free range.
Whoa.

We've got the whole world at our fingers.
We've got the whole world in our hands.
We get the blues as we grow richer.

Cause we need to fix out loose connection.
Out in natural World Wide Web.
Where humans evolved in three-dimention.

We were tuned in by natural selection.
And we need to go online each day.
But inside we don't get no reception.

So join the new revolution, revolution!
To free the battery human.

Cause we were born to be free range, free range!
Whoa.

We are the new generation,
generation!
We are the battery human!

But we were born to be free range, free range!

Whoa.

You're standing on the only chair
And you're singing to the screens and the moving stairs
All on your own in the arrivals

You heard it in the watchman's cry
And you saw it in the bleeding evening sky
You got a Swiss army in your pocket
'Cos here comes the blackout...!

Now the hooded snake controls your mind
It stole your eye on the seventh of July
We've got to learn to love our neighbour
Before our neighbours start scaring the love out of us
Before they frighten the love out of us

In the story of the matchstick girl
She was freezing on the streets of Petersburg
She lit a match and found a warmer world
But here comes the blackout...!

Now the hooded snake controls your mind
It stole your eye on the seventh of July
We've got to learn to love our neighbour
Before our neighbours start scaring the love out
The hooded snake controls your mind
It stole your eye
Now we've got to learn to love our neighbour
before our neighbours start scaring the love out of us
Out of us

Oh well her eyes they hypnotised
Like a pair of headlights
And I remember how she crashed
Headlong into my life
So I said now close those eyes
Stick a pin into this map
And then she said now look around
Because there'll be no looking back

Oh but I've been looking since that day
Since the day we parted
But you don't find happiness
When you're searching for it
And I might have realised
I was wasting precious time
But I never had the chance to change the batteries in my watch

Oh and it's a Monday night in June
And I should be sleeping
But it's so damn warm inside
I'm in the garden dreaming
And I've got one chair for myself
And another for my feet
But I still don't feel complete

Well she calls me every day
Just to touch base with me
And the birds upon the wire
They feel the electricity
And I watch them as they fly
And she lifts me up with them
Until I fall for her again

Oh and I've been working since that day
Since the day I left her
I'm making money watching birds
But I don't feel no richer
And I should have realised
I was wasting precious time
But I never had the chance to change the batteries in my watch

Oh and it's a Monday night in June
And I should be sleeping
But it's so damn warm inside
I'm in the garden dreaming
And I've got one chair for myself
And another for my feet
But I still don't feel complete

January calls round to find me
Alone in this place where I've been living
My real home lives down the river
Where she's making circles with her tears

And February blows even colder
And I'll send my love downstream
And words and verses in plastic boxes
She's still unready to take them in
And they're bobbing underneath the bridges
Out to the ocean back
Back on the rocks

And the rain came down back in December
When you told me you were drifting
The waters rose while my door swung closed
On the circles that you lived in
You got so caught up in the swirls and eddies
You never saw where you were heading
You were bobbing underneath the bridges
Out to the ocean back
Back on the rocks

And spring is only round the corner
As I'm writing you this final letter
I'll drop it in the cool green water
From the bridge where we jumped in together
And I hope it will be carried to you
Cast upon the rocks beside you
And I hope the words serve to remind of
Someone you can leave behind you
Someone who can hold inside
Someone hold me waiting here for you

To take me from this burning bridge
Before I end up back
Back on the rocks

Six a.m. you left me for the last time
On my doorstep blinking in the sunshine
Blamed and framed I'm frozen in the picture
Hanging in the space you left inside me
Climbed upstairs into the final scene
Waiting for the credits to appear
For all the years that I've been starring
Starring in a film with you and
Leading with a star I knew but I'm waking up
In a long beam of light where the dust is dancing
As the music plays

On my way out for the very last time
Off my doorstep straight into the sunshine
Walking west and following the coastline
Looking for a sea change
You led me here when the world began
And the breakers shook the moonlit sand
Saw your pale face shining through the spray
And I was blown away
With the feeling I was starring
Starring in a film with you and
Leading with a star I knew but I'm waking up
In a long beam of light where the dust is dancing
As the music plays

Goodnight, goodnight the sun is long out of sight,
and I stagger home by the street lights.
Goodnight, goodnight,
went out after work tonight: only meant to stay for a swift pint
and I'm giving you a call though I'm in no fit state,
and I know its far too late,
and I'm hardly thinking straight
'cause I've missed you ever since you moved away from here,
and its not the same this year.
I wish I could teleport you here tonight to say
Goodnight soul mate,
I know I'm in no state to call you up and keep you up so late,
but I had to hear you,
talking in my ear.
I've been so lonely since you left me here.
So Goodnight,
I'm back and I'm through the door now,
hear me go bouncing down the hall now.
Goodnight goodnight soul mate,
oh but if you were here tonight,
we could climb up through the skylight.
Remember lying in your attic on those summer nights?
Our hands trembling side by side,
those were the best days of my whole life.
And now I know you're moving on and I've been trying too,
trying not to speak to you, but I still cant sleep here without you, to wish me a
Goodnight soul mate.
I know I'm in no state to call you up and keep you up so late
but but I just had to hear you
talking in my ear.
I've been so lonely since you left me here.
And I've got my friends but I cant really talk to them, like I can talk to you
remember how we used to stay up very, very late and smoke and listen: did I say how much I miss you?
Now I'm keeping you from sleeping now
I only called to called to wish you
could be here tonight to hold me while I wished you a goodnight soul mate.
I know I'm in no state to call you up and keep you up so late.