The Sound Of The Girl Next Door

I'm alone in my room for the first time in years

And as I close my eyes, the only thing I hear

Is the sound of the girl next door

Singing

Outside, there are racketeers selling souvenirs

T-shirts that read "the end of the world nears"

And in between their screams

And the echoes in the street is the

Sound of the girl next door, singing

Singing: Goldenheart, don't let me down

Singing: I need you, I need you around

Singing: You fit me, so perfectly

Me, and the girl next door, singing

All the heads of state are meeting, making

Speeches, signing treaties, while in the city

Peace is sold in pieces, as the people are sleeping

Only listening to the sound of their own hearts beating

Not the sound of the girl next door, singing

And artists locked inside creating, in their basements

Sculpting, painting, chasing the beauty they're gestating

When all I'm appreciating

Is the inspiration fading from a voice that I hear wavering

In the sound of the girl next door, singing

Singing: Goldenheart, don't let me down

Singing: I need you, I need you around

Singing: You fit me, so perfectly

Me, and the girl next door, singing

But will my voice ever be loud enough, or my

Words be so clear

That the whole world can hear me

Like I'm listening to you here?

Can one northern son

Shake awake a nation so numb

That we're hiding in our headphones

And we're drowning in our beer, yeah

Cowering in fear

And losing our ability to hear?

And the children on the streets are playing

While the killer's on the corner praying

On the weak and the lonely hide in their heads

And the brave they die in their beds

And the mad are making their plans

And the rich are washing their hands

And the bosses crack their whips

While the strippers shake their hips

But I can't keep a track of it all

Cos there's a voice coming on so strong

Shaking windows, rattling the walls

It's the sound of the girl next door, singing

Singing: Goldenheart, don't let me down

Singing: I need you, I need you around

Singing: You fit me, so perfectly

Me, and the girl next door, singing