Grey

It was a saffron day on the avenue

I took the evening train back to my dark room

And the periwinkle sky was just the night in disguise

Oh and everything eventually turns grey

Well if you saw me now, I'd still talk at my shoes

And if I saw you now, your eyes would still be blue

And believing your own lies seemed like such a good idea

But you see your father's eyes when you look into the mirror

Oh and everything eventually turns grey

It takes one hour to burn

What was twenty years to come

And we're all rubble at the bottom

And it's all falling down

Yeah it's all falling down

The creases there, and my crooked spine

The bold headlines now, a linear design

Oh and everything eventually turns grey

It takes one hour to burn

What was two hundred years to come

And we're all rubbled at the bottom

And it's all falling down

And it's all falling down

Yeah it's all falling down

Now, now it's getting yellow at the edges

Cracking at the corners

Bending at the knees

You're getting blue in the face

From screaming the warning

And no one's listening

It's hard to see, we turn away

We're slowly walking underground

Ashes to ashes now, ashes to ashes now

Now your old idyllic hope is just

A shipwreck on the shore

And now your old idyllic hope is just

A shipwreck on the shore