If There's No Hope For Us

If our words were once sweethearts

Now they're ugly, violent thugs.

How did our language come to this?

We speak in grunts and sighs and shrugs

And we never used to let just one spare moment

Go to waste but now you're hardly ever here

And when you are

You're bored and chaste

So when did you decide that I was vile

I've tried and tried to talk,

But talking's never been your style

You said we can still be friends

But we both know that we won't

And your mates all laugh and smile as if they know something I don't

And every night a taxi softly sneaks you up our street

You used to say you'd broke your phone

Now you don't care if you're discreet

So why won't you just tell me who was there?

There's a buzz about you now

There's something funny in the air

If there's no hope for us

Then there's no hope for anyone

What chance can they have,

If even you and me can't have fun?

Was it so long ago our friends said we were disgraceful?

But how could they ever know

That we could be so unfaithful?

You weren't wearing much of note

Just hold-ups and your long grey coat

The three-bar fire lit up our skin

We whispered, 'cause your mom was in

And when we went to use the phone,

And noticed that we weren't alone,

We shrugged and let the pervert

See how he could only hope to be

But that was in the haze of new romance

When we floated hand in hand right through it's vague

Deceitful trance

If there's no hope for us then

There's no hope for anyone...

That's me

Then

I'm all packed

You know I need some time to think

You just keep what you might need

I think we both might need a drink

And all the secrets that I keep

You know I keep because I care

But now there's no hope left for us so,

Darling, let's just leave it there.