Your eardrums a-ringing as you stand on your own
The street corner's deserted, it echoes your sigh
Away from the vacuum, clutching twelve years of your life
With a lump in the throat and a tear in one eye

Stagger away from that great explosion
You know that the dream is over but you don't know which way to go


Could it be what it was when it was?
The same picture, just a different frame
Would it mean what it meant once again?
Years go by, but the song remains the same



Sometimes you think you could quite so easily, get up and go
Leave everything, end up in another part of the world
Away from the lime light, no fleshy persona, just somebody else
With this new found freedom how could you ever be cold?

Step to one side and walk down another street
Change all the phone numbers to just disappear and move out of the way