This Is London

This is London, the place where you're a god or a disgrace

The whole wide world at your feet to see the look upon your face

And you watch the BBC and you think, "Well, what if that was me?"

Such a promising life to waste

You told me, "Just be brave. Remember all the gifts you gave

And how you felt like you were saved

Like you were singing from beyond the grave"

And you said you'd wait for me until the day I could sing on key

"There's just something about your face"

Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me

And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me

Like we were home again

There was just no way to know what was real and what was show

A future unfolding before my eyes, and a past that I could not let go

And how the feeling is so deep

when you're running down the London streets

Like there's nowhere left to go

Among the faceless dizzy whores, the unimaginable bores

Evenings stumbling from the pub, mornings shivering on the floor

Then the careless way you say, "Yeah, we were just glad we got to play"

When you're empty to the core

Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me

And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me

Like we were home again

I'm so tired of the rain

This is London, the place where you get lost without a trace

Among the beautiful remains of this shattered human race

All the words that go unsaid, all the sacrifices of the dead

"We'll fall quietly into the past or we'll just burn the streets instead"

In the clamoring of the crowd, you think, "I'll just stay quiet, instead"

All the fallen dizzy angels crawling through the street

The pleas of people weary on their feet

And you're half a world away from me

As the clouds drown the light

I wonder where you are tonight