The Cool Change

Hello, old friend, are you back again?

I can hear your rings on the pavement

Nice to see you keep up appearances

But must you bang so hard on my basement?

All your plants are dead, balance in the red

But you always paid your way, better not to say how

After Collingwood, saw you as you were

Shot for Hollywood, draped in dirty fur

This town was not big enough for the one of you

Doors were too narrow and the chill wind blew

Felt it in your bones, rolled away the stone

You rose again in the Northern autumn

But when you lay me down, sweet and slow

My heart won't fight it

Stone cold, flyin' like a hawk

Skywards

In the city of dreamers, there were so many like you

Snowflakes meltin' in the perma-Sun, bands on the run

It was warm at night, but cold inside you

Though it never rained, sometimes hurricaned

With you in the eye of them, they'd always spare your hair

But when you lay me down, sweet and slow

My heart won't fight it

Stone cold, flyin' like a hawk

Skywards

They called you the cool change

'Cause when you darkened the doorway

Someone's life was about to get clouded

But not me, though

I was the one who thought the Sun shined

From your eyes when you smiled

You were the chosen boy

And you chose to ride the wind

But when you lay me down, sweet and slow

My heart won't fight it

Stone cold, flyin' like a hawk

Skywards